Day: January 29, 2015
Ethical Question
So I went to fetch a huge coffee before my 5 pm 3-hour lecture.
“It’s free,” told me the barista at the campus Starbucks.
“Why is it free?” I asked.
“Why not?” the barista retorted.
I had no answer, so I just took the coffee.
Now I’m wondering, though. My morning class is quite large and I don’t know all of the students in it. Might this barista be one of my students in that course and did I just accept a bribe in the form of free coffee?
Stop Whining, Freddie deBoer.
A very good post by Angus Johnston. If people find it so incredibly hard to handle routine situations in the classroom, they should work on their teaching skills instead of producing long melodramatic screeds.
And by the way, since when is the word “disabled” considered unacceptable?
“I have seen, with my own two eyes, a 19 year old white woman — smart, well-meaning, passionate — literally run crying from a classroom because she was so ruthlessly brow-beaten for using the word “disabled.” Not repeatedly. Not with malice. Not because of privilege. She used the word once and was excoriated for it. She never came back. I watched that happen.”
I’ve got a question, Freddie: Why? Why did you watch that happen? Why did you let the situation escalate that way? Why didn’t you step in?
It sounds like you’re describing something that happened in a classroom in which you were teaching. If so, you really screwed up that day. Because when a student is getting attacked by other students for making a mistake, it’s your job to intervene — not just on her behalf, but so that other students feel the freedom to speak…
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Russians Tease the Brits
Russian military planes flying near UK airspace caused “disruption to civil aviation” on Wednesday, the Foreign Office has said.
It said the Russian aircraft did not enter UK airspace, but the manoeuvres were “part of increasing pattern of out-of-area operations” by Russia.
The planes were “escorted” by RAF jets “throughout the time they were in the UK area of interest”, officials added.
Russia’s ambassador has been summoned to “account for the incident”.
Yes, keep flirting with these animals while they joyfully pee on your heads.
Greeks Are Pathetic
The stupid Greeks first ran their country into the ground, and are now whoring themselves out like crazy. They are hoping that Putin will adopt them now that Europe has realized how useless they are.
The Greek idiots are trying to block EU sanctions against Russia. They are miserable and hate Ukrainians for learning to be less passive and try to live better.
Hate these fucks.
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