the real lacc

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."

Sunday, 18 April 2010

i love indy media!!!
here is my new post:
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2010/04/237266.php

LACC sexism on campus
by mary eng Sunday, Apr. 18, 2010 at 6:41 AM

professors on rampage shirk professionalism in favor of words like "tits and ass," "slut" etc. racism and homophobia and sexism torture

hey! if you want to be ridiculed for being mexican, hear unfair stereotypes about african-americans, hear homophobic rants about whether or not tom cruise is gay, or hear words like slut whore and tits and ass in the classroom, you should totally go to LACC.
Los Angeles Community College on vermont at santa monica blvd.

we even have a teacher who talks about prostitution 80% of the time.

and others obsessed by masturbation.

gym teachers who harass female students.

sexist english teachers.

the administrative oversight likes to push stuff under the carpet.

the professors are hell-bent on being offensive as often as possible.

LACC is getting sued.

they are so confused.

you can get free tuition with a fee waiver.

but be prepared to be abused, on the taxpayer's dime.

LACC district counsel eric kim says i should take down my expose blog.

i think they need to get sued again for protecting abuse.

they act like the internet never happened.

professors who specifically have a weird way about women in the classroom:
lanzer: slut, dumb woman, horrible women
lewis: hooker, topless dancing assignment, homophobia, harasses women of color
bartelt: "tits and ass" shouted at student, jokes about margaret thatcher being a man and "show your tits"
duffy: speaks of women as "cheesecake" and of wives who gain 100 lbs. eating bon-bons while trying to take advantage of men financially
vargas: brings in film with every other word whore or the n-word. not kidding.

if you guys have some more examples please comment or write me.

lots of students are confirming a school-wide quality control problem.
reports of islamophobia too.
please contact
laccequalitycoalition@yahoo.com for stories or assistance.

1 comment:

Shayamli Mehrotra said...: Bartlet obviously was joking when he allegedly said what was stated above. This was not towards you. Joking is the key word.; 28 May 2010 at 16:45