Re: Harvard's president apologizes
From: Susan Cohen (flavia13_at_verizon.net)
Date: 01/24/05
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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 03:56:59 GMT
"Robert Flory" <wyogeo@MORETHANWARMmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Susan Cohen" <flavia13@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>> <jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote in message
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>>> In article <bdvId.17201$P04.404@attbi_s03>,
>>> "George" <george@wtfiswrongwithyou.com> wrote:
>>> <snip>
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>>>>So, why does it matter whether they do or not? Are you a
>>>>proponent of limiting women's rights in education because
>>>>they "might" think differently than men?
>>>
>>> You demonstrate exactly what one of the problems is.
>>>
>>> Stop confusing rights with education.
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>> Surely everyone who is a student in good standing of any eduational
>> institution has the same rights as all the others?
>>
>> Susan
>>>
> You have obviously been to different schools and lived in different worlds
> than Jo and the rest of us have. Rights are rights, but the real world
> is another nut to crack.
Just because you may be denied rights doesn't mean they don't exist.
Susan
>
> I got into grad school because I got along better with the Profs. than
> some with better grades. I got an assistantship because of completely
> non-geologic skills. I was an experienced mountaineer and could survive
> in Antarctica without a keeper. Things happen because the advisors wants
> this or that. When a class turned out not to match the catalogue
> description only the first 5 got to bail, the rest were told no. Of
> course that was before students found out what their rights were supposed
> to be and hired lawyers. ;-)
>
> If you are talking about the pre-college years .... visit a school. I come
> from a family of educators. You could write books on who gets short
> changed. I've got a granddaughter who "flunked" the first grade because
> of undiagnosed but very treatable problems. She is a whiz now that I
> helped them beat the administration, who had more important problems to
> deal with, into diagnosing the problem and dealing with it. Lots of kids
> don't have grandfather's willing to raise hell with the school system.
> They loose their rights and end up with the short end of the stick.
>
> Bob
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