Oddity, reprised
Sep. 1st, 2006 09:17 amI must admit to making a tactical error in my last post - specifically, in the title I gave to the cut. I did not want to give an obvious pointer to the thing that had puzzled me, so I referred to the classroom instead - and that set a number of readers haring off on that scent. Mea culpa; I did not intend that.
Nonetheless, the questions raised in comments are good ones. I've been trying to reconcile the data I have, and I can make partial reconstructions, all of which founder on one or another inconvenient fact. ( Wha' hoppen? ) I'm seriously tempted to talk to the other instructor again.
(Oh, if you weren't following comments, the oddity that had struck me was the fact that I had to stop and think to remember that the student was black. I am certainly not color-blind, but apparently her race didn't stick as a primary fact in my mind, on this particular occasion.)
Nonetheless, the questions raised in comments are good ones. I've been trying to reconcile the data I have, and I can make partial reconstructions, all of which founder on one or another inconvenient fact. ( Wha' hoppen? ) I'm seriously tempted to talk to the other instructor again.
(Oh, if you weren't following comments, the oddity that had struck me was the fact that I had to stop and think to remember that the student was black. I am certainly not color-blind, but apparently her race didn't stick as a primary fact in my mind, on this particular occasion.)