I wholeheartedly stand with Professor Klein and am disgusted at what happened to him. I am a UCLA graduate. While attending school, I suffered a number of hardships including serious medical issues and mental health problems. Even so, I never asked any professor for any special accommodations let alone for them to take it "easy on me" fo…
I wholeheartedly stand with Professor Klein and am disgusted at what happened to him. I am a UCLA graduate. While attending school, I suffered a number of hardships including serious medical issues and mental health problems. Even so, I never asked any professor for any special accommodations let alone for them to take it "easy on me" for an exam, especially when that one exam would determine my grade for the class. And if I had, they would never have agreed to cut me slack on an exam and grade it less harshly. Never.
There are students dealing with all types of hardships, mental stressors and challenges. It is entirely unfair to take it easy on a group of students based solely on their skin color (regardless how affected/unaffected they were by events going on in the world), while ignoring challenges and hardships that other students may be facing. Furthermore, there are difficult situations going on all over the world to many different groups of people - gay/lesbian/transgender, Asian people (particularly the recent violence towards Asians in California), Jewish people, wars going on between different countries, etc. Should we then identify who is upset by what and decide to cut them slack based on how they feel about the state of events in the world?
Professor Weiss was trying to be fair, and anti-racist. He clearly believes in equality and does NOT want to judge students based on the color of their skin, or hold black people to lower standards. Shame on you, UCLA. And anyone that participated in getting this professor fired, harassing him, and tarnishing his reputation. Disgusting.
I wholeheartedly stand with Professor Klein and am disgusted at what happened to him. I am a UCLA graduate. While attending school, I suffered a number of hardships including serious medical issues and mental health problems. Even so, I never asked any professor for any special accommodations let alone for them to take it "easy on me" for an exam, especially when that one exam would determine my grade for the class. And if I had, they would never have agreed to cut me slack on an exam and grade it less harshly. Never.
There are students dealing with all types of hardships, mental stressors and challenges. It is entirely unfair to take it easy on a group of students based solely on their skin color (regardless how affected/unaffected they were by events going on in the world), while ignoring challenges and hardships that other students may be facing. Furthermore, there are difficult situations going on all over the world to many different groups of people - gay/lesbian/transgender, Asian people (particularly the recent violence towards Asians in California), Jewish people, wars going on between different countries, etc. Should we then identify who is upset by what and decide to cut them slack based on how they feel about the state of events in the world?
Professor Weiss was trying to be fair, and anti-racist. He clearly believes in equality and does NOT want to judge students based on the color of their skin, or hold black people to lower standards. Shame on you, UCLA. And anyone that participated in getting this professor fired, harassing him, and tarnishing his reputation. Disgusting.