Comments on: A Teacher’s ExposÃ©

By: sandhya

sandhya — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:00:58 +0000

I giving away my copy of this book. If if anyone wants it, please let me know here by Friday, the 26th. I'll pick a name at random and mail it out to you.

By: AE

AE — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:45:54 +0000

Interesting… sounds like just working for the school in that way opened up a lot of social doors too. I wasn’t sure about the whole full time socialite thing… a quick search reveals what I was curious about http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/2019 (Sounds like she doesn’t need the tutoring or teaching $$ now – before this book I wonder how she was being supported? http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/i/partypictures/06_29_07/LillyPulitzer/LillyPulitzer18.jpg) Many of unfortunately have no little choice but to play the game and can’t jsut become socialites and give it up

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:04:42 +0000

Long Story – but I have instructed her that if she walks into our home with that hair, she will have her head and her ass shaved. maybe if we all pray for her together, we can make her one of us. Right now the girls at Delta Gamma have obducted her. Maybe we can bring her home, or she can deliver us. whichever

shanti. Pankaj

By: Didiii

Didiii — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:46:09 +0000

25 Â· Pankaj said

. WAY TO GO DIDIIIII!

So how come DIDIIIII looks like a blonde?!

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:52:44 +0000

. Yes, Anna Taggert is supposed to look like a person of color. This may be very controversial, but Iâ€™m just going to say it - - - it is my strong belief that many of these â€œpushesâ€ for diverse students and faculty are actually racist. Not all, but some. I canâ€™t help but wonder how much of hiring a diverse faculty is about promoting diversity itself or attracting a student body that will secure optimal acceptances to elite Ivy League Schools. If Langdon Hall had 200 white, Jewish kids in their senior class, would that have secured them as many college acceptances than a class mixed with other ethnicities? Oh Iâ€™m sure there are very glib responses from schools about how Iâ€™m giving such a bleak view on this, but am I really?

WAY TO GO DIDIIIII!

By: Dr Amonymous

Dr Amonymous — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:00:40 +0000

anyone care to clarify? In the novel, Lakhani’s character is repeatedly lauded and singled out for her “rich Mexican background” even though she is not Mexican, just happens to have “exotic features.” She discovers that she may have been initially hired be/c of her ethnic background, to add to the diversity mix. But in the above argument, she seems to be talking about both faculty and student body diversity — i.e. diversity seems to be equally important for higher enrollment in the elite private schools as well as for higher chances of acceptance into Ivy Leagues.

So is her point only that multiculturalism is part of the way in which private schools are gaming the system as they always have or is it extended into a criticism on race consciousness as a whole? I’m having a little trouble grasping the unfairness of diversity in particular within a private educational system that’s built on unfairness, unless she’s pointing to the latter.

By: Desi Ink

Desi Ink — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:18:17 +0000

Interesting – I was talking to my extended family in Mumbai about college applications the other day and heard of an elaborate system in India now – apparently now there are a ton of tutors in Mumbai that do all the SAT essays and applications for the kids – and then – get this!?! – the kids come to some big name school here and still send their assignments home all through college and the tutors do the essays for them – these are very rich kids in Mumbai that then go back and run their parents’ companies….

By: my_dog_jagat

my_dog_jagat — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:17:55 +0000

Not just high school but in pretty much any sphere where tests are taken and homework/ownwork has to be turned it. When I was a graduate student, I got a variety of these requests. I didn’t take any of these assignments but for the same paltry amount, they could very quickly find someone else. I think I must have been the only one who had a problem.

By: Standardized

Standardized — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:19:40 +0000

I was once offered $5,000 to take the SATs for someone else. The testing center in our town had notoriously lax security, so without going into details I can tell you that it has been done before.

I seriously considered the offer before refusing, partly because I would have felt guilty and partly because $5K was not nearly enough to jeopardize my own future, especially since I knew I could guarantee the person would get into the college they wanted. More like $50K

As for cheating in general, it's rampant and not just at elite schools. At my public high school, students copied all their assignments from each other. The only answer is testing, testing and more testing. It's a lot harder to cheat when you have to rely on your own mind and nothing else.

But of course American parents are against testing, or anything that tells them that little Johnny or Susie might not be as gifted as the Asian kid sitting in the corner.

By: rohan

rohan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:37:39 +0000

wish my teachers looked like that when I was in school...

I think of all the education that I missed. But then my homework was never quite like this.