do no harm:


idit dobb-weinstein: "teaching is action and thinking at once. What I try to guard against most when I teach is not speaking as if my answer were conclusive, so as to avoid (to the extent possible) any kind of dogmatic appropriation. It is understandable why students might wish to imitate their teachers, but there are different modes of imitation. I try very hard to avoid the mimetic appropriation that is immediate, passive, and occludes thinking. One other reason is that if I made clear what my views were, and my views appeared as if they were final, it would preclude the possibility of first, students challenging me and second, learning from my students. The relation between the student and teacher is, to me, a dynamic relationship . . . Teaching and learning is a movement that occurs between. In other words, we are at once both agent and patient, both teacher and learner. If we are not very careful, we can do a great deal of harm. And that, too, I have learned from my teachers, Maimonides especially.

I believe my task is to provoke students to think and to engage them in genuine dialogue and questioning. To paraphrase a rabbinic saying, 'I have learned from my teachers, and I have learned from my peers, but I have learned most from my students.' And that is a continuous process of learning."

Monday, 5 April 2010

i just wanted to thank office of legal counsel for LACC district for reading my blog!!!!!!!  thanks eric kim!  i'm sorry i was so aggressive on the phone!  i just think its such a waste of school money and student time, to have an administration that can't screen out the sexist proffs or at least advise them of the legal responsibility to shut their yapping sexist mouths!!!!
they can totally still be sexist and creepy on their own time, it just shouldn't happen at LACC paid for by tax dollars.
its unfair.
its sloppy.
it was also nice talking to gene little about equality on campus.  i told him we are on the same team.
neither of us want any more expensive lawsuits wasting LACC money over professorial incompetence.  the funny thing about free speech, is that the blogosphere is really free.
so free i think i'll copy paste eric kim's take down notice so we can discuss intellectual property and censorship with a fun study problem.

while it would be super easy to censor this out of the school paper, or the company website, this is an entirely different medium.
probably nobody reads this, so i don't think eric kim, legal counsel to the school, should be so worried.
and like i told gene little a moment ago, if the professors were 100% professional and non-offensive, antiracist, and antisexist, then there would be no reason to waste my time writing a blog on a field of law i find rather boring.

i am far more interested in environmental and human rights law.
the fact that the professors think its okay to speak sexistly to women, is just so shocking.  so old school.  so bad TV.
i thought they were trying to get fired, but really, friends don't fire each other.

i think the brilliant fink lawyer and i had some ideological disparities, or rather, lucrative disparities.  while being an outstanding pioneer on sexual harassment law, this might not be a quick kill.  we do have to work within the prevailing idiocracy which prefers egregious harassment.

i love talking to these honored elders.  i'm sorry if i implied they are out of touch or complacent.
i'm not going to be around much longer anyway.
i'm doing it for the people.
even a lot of guys are sick of sexist backward professors.
i'm not kidding.
young guys are so amazing sometimes.
they just are so much more fair.
i love it!!!!
so the BS radar is in place, and thanks for reading!!!!
hopefully everything will be so perfect from now on, that we can whitewash history!!!!! pretend that women were never shut out of academia, pretend they don't make 60-70% of the white male dollar.  Pretend LAPD prosecutes rape, and doesn't just ignore the DNA evidence.  we can pretend that women are not harassed at work or the home too.

the huge waste of time, of taking a class, and then showing up to be verbally abused, and condescended to . . .  well . . .
blogs are free!!!!!
therapy!!!!!

but what eric kim doesn't get about the algebra blogspot is that i have the support of disability services which was so excited to see the american sign language videoed via free bambuser.com.  i am working as a volunteer to develop alternative tutorial methods.
and build archives.
so is office of legal counsel trying to say they really want dyslexic people and deaf people to not have learning resources?
that seems pretty anti-education to me.

p.s. its not like i think lacc district would actually sue me, although it would be totally funny.
sue me for #1 getting harassed and #2 complaining.  that would be so bogus.
they need to learn how the internet works.

its not my job to contain damage.  its their problem.  its their little PR nightmare and all the more reason they should get their professors into shape.
so they don't get bad reviews on yelp or ratemyproffs or blogs dah!

Hello Ms. Eng: 
I hope you were able to get in touch with Cristy Passman, Compliance Officer at LACC or Gene Little, the District's Director of Diversity Programs, after our conversation.   
Also, the Los Angeles Community College District (the "District") requests that you change the name of your blog(s), (i.e., "thereallacc.blogspot.com," "laccalgebra.blogspot.com") so that "lacc" is not incorporated into the name.   Under the California Education Code, the college names and abbreviations of those names are the property of the District, and cannot, without permission of the District, be used to designate any business, social, political, religious, or other organization.  Of course, you are certainly free to comment about LACC within the body of the blog.  Thank you.    
Eric Kim, Assistant General Counsel

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