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Progressive stacking #240268 10/27/17 09:00 AM
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,640 Likes: 1 MA B Bostonian OP Member
OP Bostonian Member B Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,640 Likes: 1 MA	Recently a teaching assistant at the University of Pennsylvania stated Quote �I will always call on my Black women students first. Other [people of color] get second tier priority. [White women] come next. And, if I have to, white men.� An article at National Review notes that this technique, called "progressive stacking" has been defended by several academics and that Quote UPenn Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty acknowledged that �we are looking into the current matter,� but no condemnation has so far been issued. I don't want to send my children to a place that tolerates such discrimination by the faculty, even if they are not members of the targeted groups.

Re: Progressive stacking Bostonian #240275 10/27/17 02:40 PM
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Quantum2003 Member Q Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 1,432	I can see giving priority to students who hesitate to speak, who may not feel as empowered to broadcast their opinions/thoughts. If that happens to fall along racial and gender lines, then some encouragement may be warranted in specific cases. There are certainly loud students who dominate discussions without advancing the discourse and the class as a whole may well benefit from hearing less from them. However, to blindly adhere to a pre-established hierarchy without regard to the actual students in a particular class would rarely advance the discourse. I do find troubling her quoted statement that she only calls on white men "if I have to" as that not only amounts to discrimination but robs the class of ideas that should also be heard.

Re: Progressive stacking Quantum2003 #240279 10/27/17 03:30 PM
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indigo Member I Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 5,248 Likes: 1	Originally Posted by Quantum2003 I can see giving priority to students who hesitate to speak, who may not feel as empowered to broadcast their opinions/thoughts. If that happens to fall along racial and gender lines, then some encouragement may be warranted in specific cases. There are certainly loud students who dominate discussions without advancing the discourse and the class as a whole may well benefit from hearing less from them. However, to blindly adhere to a pre-established hierarchy without regard to the actual students in a particular class would rarely advance the discourse. I do find troubling her quoted statement that she only calls on white men "if I have to" as that not only amounts to discrimination but robs the class of ideas that should also be heard. Agreed! Well said, Quantum2003.

Re: Progressive stacking Bostonian #240281 10/27/17 04:57 PM
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JonLaw Member Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 2,007 The Sub-Tropics	Originally Posted by Bostonian Recently a teaching assistant at the University of Pennsylvania stated Quote �I will always call on my Black women students first. Other [people of color] get second tier priority. [White women] come next. And, if I have to, white men.� An article at National Review notes that this technique, called "progressive stacking" has been defended by several academics and that Quote UPenn Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty acknowledged that �we are looking into the current matter,� but no condemnation has so far been issued. I don't want to send my children to a place that tolerates such discrimination by the faculty, even if they are not members of the targeted groups. I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

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