Is professor Klein guilty of racism or equality?

[nala]

Did anyone else find the TAs' request for lenient grading as patronizing to minorities, especially because they did it on behalf of students and not involving them.

I think if the class collectively asked the professor to postpone a test or give additional time to complete an assignment to ALL the students to make accommodations for students to participate in the very important cause of the protests, I think that would have been a total different situation and one that I (if I was the professor) would have granted if able.

I pointed out in my earlier post that the students should have made the request for all those affected by the protests—including students whose parents businesses were looted. I also pointed out that in the adult world, businesses extend time off to adults for any number of reasons if said adults request stress leave, etc. Let’s not forget that we accommodate anxiety or other mental health issues as well—And the fact that we should be erasing the stigma when it comes to these. Lots of pricescopers post about anxiety and depression and no one here shames them or tells them to grow up and get over it. These protests took a toll emotionally and psychologically on most of us. So yeah. Sometimes the pursuit of “equality” rings as tone deaf.

 

[HollyJane]

Right. Join people in their fight for equality; don't decide for them what they should fight for or how they should fight it.