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University student/TA punished for neutral teaching


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A 22 year-old masters student and TA (Lindsay Shepherd) teaching a tutorial on grammar was besieged by three professors and administrators for initiating a debate on gender pronouns with her students without taking position herself in class. She cleverly recorded the meeting (tribunal) they subjected her to, which you can hear below (starts at 1:50 mark).

https://globalnews.ca/video/3867809/wilfrid-laurier-ta-says-university-censored-her-for-showing-clip-on-gender-pronouns

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The mission of universities isn't to fight anything, but to create learning environments. I might be old fashioned, but whatever one thinks of an issue, debates should be encouraged on current topics in colleges classrooms (between students), as they are in high-school classrooms. Students are perfectly capable of arguing for what they think is right or rational.

“I made a point to not express my view … but I think it’s still important to listen to other people and listen to what they have to say. That’s what university is about — dialogue.”, said she. Shocking?

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