[PEN-L:11190] Re: On censorship

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ajit told a story about leaving a disruptive student in class.  Let me
refer to my own experience.

As a grad. student in Berkeley, I volunteered at the Prescott School in
Oakland, where a young Berkeley gratudate was trying to maintain order
is a class of 30 or so students.  Nothing was being learnt because of
the constant disruption.  I tried helping to tutor a few of the more
disruptive students one-on-one.  Later, the teacher and I decided that
we had to resort to triage.  I took some of the most disruptive students
out of the class room so we could fool around outside and talk.  They
did not learn anything, but they were not learning anything in the
previous situation.  The teacher thought that the other 25 might have a
chance if the classroom were less noisy.



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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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