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Didn't everyone grow up facing some kind of regular harassment in high school? I expected things to take a serious turn for the worse in this story and it actu

Didn't everyone grow up facing some kind of regular harassment in high school? I expected things to take a serious turn for the worse in this story and it actually doesn't seem all that bad. A mother is upset that her daughter was slightly harassed. In one class. In her entire high school experience. Obviously it doesn't make it okay just because many people have faced worse, but dragging the teacher through the mud for it seems unreasonable. " Sadly, you only get one chance to make a first impression, and you, sir, created a horrible one for girls in computer programming. " No, he didn't. Not by any reasonable definition of "horrible". Nor is it his responsibility to create any particular impression for any particular race, gender, or religion. Your own pet issue is not his concern. While on the topic of things horrible, that seven point list is horribly patronizing. Complete with little insulting gems like this: "Good grief, man — how were you even able to make programming boring?". So glad I'm not a teacher. Must be excruciating at times dealing with the entitled, self obsessed parents, let alone the students.

cnlwsu 13y ago
First off I would expect a parent who sees their children suffer to lash out at someone when they have no way of controlling it. That doesnt mean it goes without merit though. If a child is bullied in PE to where every day he just tries to curl in a corner and try not be noticed not only does he not get anything out of the class it can alter the childs desire of becoming an active participant in sports. I think you can draw a lot of correlations between that and this. If we want to avoid and undo segregation between the sexes in our field having them attacked for it at a young age and have the idea indoctrinated in them that computer science is not for them is something that needs to be prevented. The only people really with the ability to do so in this scenario is the teacher and parents of the other children. The teacher is the single =individual= with the most ability to affect the lives of the children and although he shouldn't be held accountable he should try to be more attentive to prevent the bullying or at least try to make the class more engaging and fun. She was pretty patronizing and mean, but I associate that with her frustration and anger with her lack of control. In her shoes I would probably do the same.

cnlwsu 13y ago

First off I would expect a parent who sees their children suffer to lash out at someone when they have no way of controlling it. That doesnt mean it goes without merit though. If a child is bullied in PE to where every day he just tries to curl in a corner and try not be noticed not only does he not get anything out of the class it can alter the childs desire of becoming an active participant in sports. I think you can draw a lot of correlations between that and this. If we want to avoid and undo segregation between the sexes in our field having them attacked for it at a young age and have the idea indoctrinated in them that computer science is not for them is something that needs to be prevented. The only people really with the ability to do so in this scenario is the teacher and parents of the other children. The teacher is the single =individual= with the most ability to affect the lives of the children and although he shouldn't be held accountable he should try to be more attentive to prevent the bullying or at least try to make the class more engaging and fun. She was pretty patronizing and mean, but I associate that with her frustration and anger with her lack of control. In her shoes I would probably do the same.