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my daughter graduated from a top state university in a science major. She made decent grades in the classroom but not so good in the lab courses. In checking out this matter, for she has always been a good student, I learned the lab courses were all taught by graduate assistants and were all foreigners who spoke poor English. She could not understand the instructors. Checking further I learned that all of the graduate assistants were foreign - none were American. I wrote a formal complaint letter to the university , not just for my daughter, but for the fact they were discriminating against Americans. I received a nice letter in reply saying they would look into the matter. I never followed up, and neither did they. This was 30 years ago.


18 posted on 03/17/2019 3:27:47 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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In the university that I got my undergrad, it was about 50/50 and everybody tried hard to get into the lab sections taught by people with anglo names. It wasn't racism, we wanted to understand what the hell they was saying.

In my chemistry pre-requisite class, I still remember the lab lady that really difficult to understand. I honestly can't remember if she was Indian or what. She kept telling people to not forget the "chickensh*t", the "chickensh*t" is very important. It took half the class period to realize that she was saying that you need to sign the "check-in sheet" or the prof will think you didn't show up to the lab. For crooning out loud, I don't think it's outrageous for a person to want an instructor that you can freakin' understand.

23 posted on 03/17/2019 6:11:22 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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