Went to the link. Is the story still being written/editted?
“She said the students had not made overtly racist or sexist remarks to her, but that she suspected the disrespect some of them showed her may have stemmed from her ethnic background or gender. In one instance, she said, a student contradicted her during a lecture on feminism and science, drawing applause from some of his classmates. Venkatesan said she was “horrified” and canceled class for a couple of days.”
ROTF! After this incident she should have been fired by her liberal-educrat institution for not understanding and using the weight of the grading pen when it comes to student “insubordination”!
The source is a little garbled, but it appears she’s suing her former students for not agreeing with her, and not listening to her lectures with reverent Ooh’s and Aah’s.
Is observing that someone is dumb as a box of rocks a civil rights violation?
When I went to the story at the link, half of it had been cross through. Anybody know why?
I thought you were supposed to do that BEFORE announcing your suit.
They should get an "F" in Drone class.
Got an E-mail...to give a new meanning to discrespect
The women is lucky the students are not sueing her failure to deliver on the paid for service (cancelling classes because she got a question in prior class).
I have taught at an Ivy league University for 31 years (undergrads, grad students and professions students in science/medicine). If your not ready to field questions and even challenges to points you make in a lecture...you shoudl not even set foot in the classroom.
LLS
There have been several articles published about this kooky dame. At one of them, there was a sample of her writing from a book she published on postmodernism. I never read more confusing garbage in all my life!!
Apparently she had a cow, and her students weren't going to take it lying down. To her horror, they weren't even sari...
When I was in medical school, we had an afternoon lecture given on birth control presented by someone from planned parenthood.
A women started the the lecture and after about three minutes left the topic of birth control and spent the next forty minutes ranting feminist principals.
She noticed the there were a group of men in the back and thinking they weren’t paying proper attention, pointed one out and screeched “what have I been saying for the last ten minutes”
He looked up and said “whaaa whaa whoaaaa”. The whole class erupted in laughter and she grabbed her things and stormed out.
Am I going to be sued?
Considering how she’s behaving, it’s no wonder they disrespected her.
Nothing like making a fool of yourself for the whole world to see.
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What a whiner!