Monday, September 7, 2009

08/31-09/06

so this weeks discussion was a little bit different from the others we've previously had. i felt that the issue of whether or not to kick the boy out of his english class was in more of a gray area where as the other issues were fairly black and white, and least for me. although in the end we did come to an agreement, i think that my group had differing opinions on this issue, and how to respond to it, where with the pornography discussion, everyone felt similiarly. luckily we haven't had anyone in our class act the way this boy did, but i do think it was important to put ourselves in the teacher's shoes and really think about how we would handle the situation.
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  1. LaurenSSeptember 9, 2009 at 8:34 PM

    Hi Rachael,
    I'm surprised that your group had more agreement last week than this one. I would have guessed that the discussion on pornography would have led to more debate. Why do you think this issue is grayer? What do you all think?

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  2. 盛林-bunnySeptember 9, 2009 at 10:54 PM

    For me, I think all the sensitive topics are gray. Sometimes, we are just hard to define those things—it’s hard to say they are right or wrong. I think maybe that’s the reason those topics become sensitive to the people, when they talk about them. If the thing become hard to find out its position between right and wrong that means it is standing in the points between the black and white—it’s gray. And for this situation, I think we are hard to define that boy was saying it with thoughts or without. That become harder to define he has step out the line of “OK” or not.

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  3. AlisonSeptember 11, 2009 at 8:30 AM

    I felt that when we talked about the pornography issue we basically were able to determine what we thought was appropriate and what was not. With the issue of the student and hate speech I think it is more difficult because he technically has the right to say what he did but he is also going against the SRJC student code of conduct. I think it is hard to come to a conclusion on how to discipline the student in a way that would be respectful not hinder rights.

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