{"id":1307,"date":"2016-11-02T13:20:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T20:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2016-11-02T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T20:20:23","slug":"hence-teaching-manners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2016\/11\/02\/hence-teaching-manners\/","title":{"rendered":"Hence, teaching manners matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a blog post this morning called “A Raging Snowflake<\/a>,” my good friend Clarissa writes:<\/p>\n

Remember the Oppressed Tiffany, a very special snowflake whose \u201cnarrative was erased by the entire field of academia\u201d when a hapless prof asked her to work on her writing?<\/p>\n

The administration of her college is now going to humiliate the entire teaching faculty by forcing them to attend classes on microaggressions<\/a>\u00a0to appease the raging snowflake. Serves them right for not figuring out that their job is not to teach the snowflakes but to praise them slavishly and exuberantly without pause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I normally tend to agree with Clarissa but need to part ways with her here. The unnamed professor apparently announced his\/her suspicions – that the student had plagiarized an assignment – to the entire class. There is never a reason to humiliate a student that way, IMHO, even if you have proof of such wrongdoing, and there\u00a0doesn’t seem to have been any in this case.<\/p>\n

Below is a photograph of part of the assignment. The professor indicates that this student could not have used the word “hence.” I might have been offended by that remark, too!<\/p>\n

\"hence\"<\/p>\n

I am not certain that this teacher was trying to “marginalize” a Latina student. The prof was, though, certainly being a real oaf\u00a0and, in those moments, a terrible teacher.<\/p>\n

And, too, who the heck doesn’t know the word “hence” – in an academic environment? I teach students from all over the world, and practically to a person the word “hence” is in their vocabulary, and if anything used too often.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

By the way, you should read Clarissa’s blog<\/a> every day. She is very prolific, opinionated, brilliant, and vivid. A joy.<\/p>\n

h\/t Clarissa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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