Johns Hopkins teaching assistant who mooted flunking ‘Zionists’ defends record
Comments ? What do you think of this TA ? Do you think her grading was fair ?
Comments ? What do you think of this TA ? Do you think her grading was fair ?
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Ethical question
- Thread starter Jake1001
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What would King Solomon have done ?
threatened to saw them in half!
Shadow Wolf
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If they fulfilled the requirements of the assignment then give far grades. They aren't being graded on their personal positions, and I suspect many teachers on a regular basis have to grade fairly the assignments of students fundamentally opposed to the teacher.
Perhaps you should ask him?
McBell
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Based on?
I mean, it isn't as though the article gave anything in which to actually judge without a whole lot of assumption making....
She wrote this in public,
“Ethical dilemma: if you have to grade a zionist students exam, do you still give them all their points even though they support your ethnic cleansing?” she wrote. “Like idk”
If I wrote that in public or anything like it or anyone I worked with wrote it, we'd be let go instantly. If I worked with a teacher or a TA who said anything like this I'd bring my concerns to senior staff at once.
McBell
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If you read the article you would know that that is as far as it has gotten.
Don't get me wrong, it should be looked into.
However, judging her based solely on the wee little bit of info that is available to us (the article) is doing so with a fairly huge amount of assumption.
Yes, it did go that far, and I'm saying I agree with it but I do think it should go further. As someone who works with teachers, I can say with pretty much certainty that if I said anything like that there wouldn't be any room for discussion, I'd be out the door.
McBell
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If no one comes forward saying they think or even suspect that their score was lowered because of it, what is it you think should be done?
Or are you claiming she should have been fired right off the bat, like apparently your employer would do, without anyone complaining about it?
Seems to me it is a really good thing, at least for her, for you not to be the one in control of her employment.
In teaching, at least where I am, if you're suspected of something like this they let you go immediately. During the period while you're proving yourself you can't work anymore; so yes, let go, at least for that time. The main issue here is her apparent prejudice towards a certain opinion held by some of her students, and the fact that she's prejudiced in this way would, at least where I am, be a one-way-ticket to find-somewhere-else-to-worksville. You don't get to have opinions in teaching and you certainly can't make them public like that. I can agree that terminating her seems a little harsh, but once someone has said something like that it would make an employer too hesitant to rehire them, wondering that sure she's been fair up to now, but who knows? You don't know, and that's the issue here.
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So you think she should be fired ? What if her student supports ethnic cleansing?
Seriously? And the fact that ...
On Wednesday, the campus chapter of the Hillel Jewish group called on students to step forward if they believe that Anayah had lowered their grades unjustly. Faculty at Johns Hopkins are looking into the case, the Forward reported.
Howard Libit, the executive director of the Baltimore Jewish Council, told the Forward that he was unaware of any student who believes Anayah has unjustly lowered their grades. [ibid]
Howard Libit, the executive director of the Baltimore Jewish Council, told the Forward that he was unaware of any student who believes Anayah has unjustly lowered their grades. [ibid]
... gives you no pause?
I think she should be harshly censored, hopefully with the concurrence of the JHU Muslim Association.
They should be engaged polemically, not dishonestly.
It does, but I'm just going by what my experience shows me. To say such a thing on Twitter and to even think of asking such a question to oneself, let alone in public, also gives me pause. She didn't do anything, but she has beliefs that apparently conflict with her career, so much so that she thought about doing this and aired her views publicly. As a teaching assistant if I did that, I'd be out the door without a question and it'd be very hard for me to find any work again.
As it should.
To be clear, it is very unlikely that she intends a career as teacher assistant grading chemistry papers, but that is hardly the point.
Her question exposed an intense frustration and a deep resentment, both, in my opinion, fully understandable. Meanwhile, her praxis (so far as I can tell) suggests responsible restraint. It seems to me that we have encountered the situation at a point where dialogue might still be more valuable than retaliation. I could be wrong.