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sortinghat_rp2012-08-08 02:16 am
quasistellar) wrote in sortinghat_rp2012-08-08 02:16 am
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[You may want to cover your ears for this one, folks. Professor Constance Peixes is angry. She is very angry. She hasn't sent a Howler, but this might as well be one going out to the entire faculty and student body.]
I am absolutely appalled at the degree of inappropriate subject matter that our students are currently discussing in their journals. You should all be ashamed of yourselves, and particularly so for discussing it with incoming first-years. Mr. Makara and Mr. Kishitani, you both have a month's detention, beginning on the first day of fall term. Mr. Makara, for writing the entry in question, and Mr. Kishitani, for encouraging the discussion, particularly among the younger students.
What in Merlin's name were you thinking? This isn't a 'friendly discussion about biology', this was getting students to discuss matters of a highly personal and private nature! And at the ages of eleven, twelve, and thirteen!
AND MY DAUGHTER AMONG THOSE STUDENTS!
You continued arguing about it being perfectly all right to discuss touching oneself after some of the younger girls said they weren't comfortable with it! They were right to think that their mothers wouldn't want to see them in the middle of a discussion like that, because they don't!
To the rest of you: I highly recommend you think before you write a journal entry discussing a topic of a sexual nature, and frankly, I discourage you from doing so.
I am absolutely appalled at the degree of inappropriate subject matter that our students are currently discussing in their journals. You should all be ashamed of yourselves, and particularly so for discussing it with incoming first-years. Mr. Makara and Mr. Kishitani, you both have a month's detention, beginning on the first day of fall term. Mr. Makara, for writing the entry in question, and Mr. Kishitani, for encouraging the discussion, particularly among the younger students.
What in Merlin's name were you thinking? This isn't a 'friendly discussion about biology', this was getting students to discuss matters of a highly personal and private nature! And at the ages of eleven, twelve, and thirteen!
AND MY DAUGHTER AMONG THOSE STUDENTS!
You continued arguing about it being perfectly all right to discuss touching oneself after some of the younger girls said they weren't comfortable with it! They were right to think that their mothers wouldn't want to see them in the middle of a discussion like that, because they don't!
To the rest of you: I highly recommend you think before you write a journal entry discussing a topic of a sexual nature, and frankly, I discourage you from doing so.
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I'm glad that you do feel bad for your professor. I'm not against open discussion, but sensitive issues of a sexual matter require a certain level of maturity and should be discussed in an appropriate environment, not over your journals. It's easy for younger students to misinterpret a lot of what was being discussed earlier, and we have no clue how many of them have come away from this incident with wrong ideas of masturbation. You've put some parents in difficult positions of explaining these matters to their children who may be too young to fully understand the discussion.
Professor Peixes was mainly upset regarding her daughter's involvement, but she was also angry that you had exposed our younger students to topics considered indecent in our current society. Some of them may have walked away, but others may have chosen to simply observe the comments without saying anything.
The journals are meant for everyone, regardless of age and gender. If people have to worry that they'll see matters they're not comfortable with every time they open their journals, then I'm afraid that would only serve to alienate people from their journals, rather than promote communication between students.
The issue here is simply that Mr Kishitani and Mr Makara brought up sensitive topics that should, by right, be filtered to older students.
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i still dont agree entirely but van is working to make a filter and i am more than willing to help him with it
because itll make him happy not because of what teachers are saying
so it wont be a problem once that gets put in place
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I agree. You shouldn't be doing this for the teachers; you should be doing it because your friends weren't comfortable with it.