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There is no discrimination in premier institutes? This is what happens in IITs. IIT Kharagpur Prof. Seema Singh openly abuses freshers enrolled in Preparatory English Course for SC/ST/PD students and challenges them to complain.
Will the government book her under PoA Act?
Will the government book her under PoA Act?
How are students from oppressed/minority backgrounds expected to study in premier institutes of higher education when this is the treatment they receive? The professor is brazenly abusing them AND their parents.
Would she have found this confidence if this weren't the norm?
Would she have found this confidence if this weren't the norm?
How can students be expected to sit at home and attend online classes when this is what they have to go through? Even a death in the family is not allowed to be excuse for absence.
Note that there is mandatory 85% attendance rule. Why are faculty allowed to enforce it now?
Note that there is mandatory 85% attendance rule. Why are faculty allowed to enforce it now?
Most institutes have retained their previous fee structure for online classes even while operating costs have fallen drastically. Some have even hiked fees during the lockdown period (for example, NID).
Higher education is being fenced off for the upper caste-upper class folks.
Higher education is being fenced off for the upper caste-upper class folks.
This preparatory course in IITs is itself an exclusionary mechanism whereby students who gain admission but are deemed to not be prepared for academic rigour are trained and tested.
How will students not drop out when this is what the preparatory course entails? Why blame them?
How will students not drop out when this is what the preparatory course entails? Why blame them?
Most institutes also don't have functioning SC/ST/OBC cells despite being required to form them.
Moreover, lockdown and online classes have meant they are shrugging off their responsibilities and there is no oversight.
Moreover, lockdown and online classes have meant they are shrugging off their responsibilities and there is no oversight.
Irony dies a thousand deaths. IIT Prof. Seema Singh who was caught on video abusing her SC/ST/PD students co-authored a journal article titled Learning to learn from the Other.
Here's exactly how subaltern studies academics make a career out of 'learning' from oppressed people.
Here's exactly how subaltern studies academics make a career out of 'learning' from oppressed people.
To know more about casteism in IITs- how IITs have been shaped, how entrenched interests refuse to let go of power and what is needed to change the status-quo, read this thread: https://twitter.com/lonelyredcurl/status/1386899738272833538?s=19
