Progressive SUNY professor rebuked for saying white male students should clam up in class A syllabus for Ana Maria Candela’s sociology class alerted students that she would be calling on non-white coeds first. Candela wrote that “if you are white, male, or someone privileged by the racial and gender structures of our society to have your voice easily voiced and heard, we will often ask you to hold off on your questions or comments to give others priority and will come back to you a bit later or at another time.” Student Sean Harrigan shone a light on the pigment-specific pedagogy after he filed a Title IX discrimination complaint to the school. Harrigan told The Post Monday that Binghamton officials scrambled to revise the syllabus and later insisted that they opposed the practice. “How am I supposed to get a full participation grade if I’m not called on because of the way I was born?” Harrigan, an economics major, said Monday.
Everyone selects their college schedule. Hell, who knows if this sociology class is even compulsory (humanity electives had a wide range in my college).
Shut up for a moment, listen and learn is something ipatent has never experienced. Allowing introverts to speak is a very good idea in any group, academic or business. This idea of there being a "participation grade" one need to earn by being a loudmouth beyond attending and doing work is questionable.