Posted on 03/11/2021 1:55:55 PM PST by HogsBreath
Georgetown Law has fired one white professor and placed another on administrative leave after a video of their discussion about a black student was condemned on social media.
Dean Bill Treanor announced on Thursday that the school had ended its relationship with Professor Sandra Sellers, 62, after the video showed her complaining on Zoom that black students were predominantly at the bottom of her class.
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A black officer in one of my military classes twice failed a block of instruction in basic electrical engineering. Nothing more rigorous than what one would learn in the two weeks of Electrical Engineering 101. Twice failing a block was cause for dismissal from the course but HQDA mandated that because this military specialty was short black officers, that he be continued and graduated regardless of his academic performance. Did I mention his college degree was in Electrical Engineering? Four years of college EE and he couldn’t pass a test on E=IxR.
fired for the truth, let them wallo in their fantasy world
“Law school is a different ball game.”
“[W]ere their comments lies? ... Are they racist? ... Are they just failures at teaching?”
“[T]he few black students who were enrolled were at the bottom of the class.”
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The law, medical and business schools at my university are all three comfortably within the top 15, as are many other professional schools. My graduate students come from all across campus, including the law school. In my classes, at least, the law/business/medical school students together make up a substantial majority and aren’t markedly better than my other graduate students.
Here are a few things that I do.
1. Most important, I get it that most of my students graduate > $200,000 in debt. Just to start, I take that seriously. Too many faculty do not. Too many teach what they want to teach and generally deliver far too little considering what these students are giving up to attend. A lot of what is taught has little or no value. Not me.
2. Most enrolled in my classes are students of color, nearly half from outside the US. Even in large classes, I know their names and how to pronounce them by the end of the first week. This takes time. It’s tedious. Yet you might be stunned by the impact that this has on students who have never ever had a professor that gave a sh*t or ever took that time.
3. I organize and deliver the material with the fewest possible prerequisites and never ever any acronyms, lingo or insider references. We start from the beginning, move at Spotify 2x speed and never waste a minute.
4. I set very, very clear expectations. In grading the essay midterms and other writing assignments, I provide comments rather than just assigning a grade. Quite extensive and blunt. Yes, many students come into my class unclear on how to deliver a quality assignment because in their mid-20s no professor has yet spelled it out for them; and this may correlate with race. The fault is not with the students, it is with the stunningly privileged and lazy faculty who teach in our universities.
5. I don’t just announce office hours. I tell students they need to get to my office hours, especially if their marks are low. I follow up rather than pay lip service.
6., 7., 8. —> I could go on. But it all boils down in the end to paying attention to the needs of students of color.
Do I think the average university professor does lousy work in the classroom? Yes. Does their laziness and privileged BS disproportionately affect students of color? Yes. Does this make them racist? The term “racist” is so abused that it isn’t any longer meaningful, but these knuckleheads are at the very least posers, pretending to care about race because they know that they serve students of color so poorly.
Are these professors more risible because they are: a) consistently far left, b) lazy, whiny, hypocritical, ... c) entrenched and self-serving, or d) all of the above? I’ll let you guess.
The odds are at least 50:1 that the G-town professor that you are defending is a lefty. The odds are 100:1 that you would find her loathsome.
And if you knew me, you’d love me. :) My students all do.
If her statement is true, then firing her simply blackwashes the problem.
Shouldn’t there be some effort to see why?
You don’t need to say anything, but those facts say a LOT about Yale and the University of Virginia, and it’s not complimentary.
Some “professor” who can’t figure out not to say that stuff.
A Brian Tracy success seminar joke was:
If you figure out that the corporation owner hired the stupidest guy in the whole organization ——his nephew——and you tell him so, at that precise moment the nephew will cease to be the stupidest guy in the whole organization.
I pretty sure that students of color from outside the US are not the kind of students being discussed in this thread. Also, what do you teach?
It doesn’t matter anyway they will get what ever they want because of the color their skin
I wonder what Georgetown grading records would show?
‘She said something that is not an insight, informs no listener, does not suggest a cause or a solution...’
eh...? every private conversation has to have some distinctive insight and suggest causation and solution to the topic being discussed, or it has no value...? (btw, she actually did inform her listener of her opinion...)
‘...is offensive to blacks...’
many things have been said about me that I consider offensive; should I demand a pity party...?
‘and mainly displays her bad attitude.’
ah, I see, then the firing is completely justified...
Thanks, have done.
Thank you..It’s a great line in today’s society
Yep!
How about posting the grades by race. They should put up or shut up but that will never happen.
Witch trials were more fair.
. How about throwing them bound into the nearest body of water if they sink they’re innocent of Racism. if they float they’re guilty and will be burned at the stake.
‘And if you knew me, you’d love me. :) My students all do.’
hmmm; okay...
True, but even white students go to a community college, learn some scholastic skills, and transfer to another college. I personally know a few people who did just that.
“In a time of universal deceit speaking the truth was a revolutionary act.”
I don’t think those black bottom dwellers will be any smarter as a result of the firing of the professors!!!
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