Georgetown Law Embarrasses Itself

For John, BLUF:  My experience is people learn by asking questions and finding answers.  When people may not ask questions, they will not learn.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Yet Another Update On “Introducing The ‘Technologically Inept Adjunct Professor With Politically Incorrect Opinions Principle’”…&nbhsp; Ethics Dunce:  Professor David Batson

From Ethics Alarms, by Mr Jack Marshall, 15 March 2021.

Here is the lede:

When we last left furiously virtue-signaling Georgetown University Law Center it had fired veteran adjunct professor Sandra Sellers last week for discussing frankly but inadvertently over Zoom a situation that everyone connected with the Law Center knows to be real.  GULC had also suspended her co-instructor David Batson for barely nodding his head during Sellers’ statement of frustration that black students too often end up at the bottom of her grading curve.  Dean Treanor, in his statement declaring the intended private discussion as “reprehensible,” darkly insinuated that Batson had failed a “bystander responsibility.”

Now Professor Batson has resigned, sharing his stated views with The Washington Post.

The author of the Blog Post, having read what Professor Batson shared with The Wash Post, declares:

Batson is a groveling coward, another of many we are seeing enable the suffocation of open discourse in the U.S. as censorious bullies take charge.

It is an unkind statement, but it appears to be true.  That Professors at Georgetown University Law School can not discuss the performance of students, at least in collective terms with regard to common characteristics is an indictment of the school.  If there is a chance that Black students, as a group, suffer a disadvantage in some way it is dereliction for Professsors not to ponder the situation, and then try to improve that situation.

Doesn't Georgetown care?

Regards  —  Cliff