tailfins
12-12-2021, 12:11 PM
https://nypost.com/2021/12/11/fordham-prof-fired-for-confusing-two-black-students-in-class/
What he should have done was claim it was a manifestation of ADHD. After getting the proper documentation together, he turns it to an Americans With Disabilities Act accommodation request. This then shifts the focus from what he said to the university's burden to accommodate a disability. LEARN HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED PEOPLE!!!
Writing the explanation article was a boneheaded move.
A Fordham University professor was fired after mixing up the names of two black students in class, according to a report.Hours after what he called an “innocent mistake,” lecturer Christopher Trogan, 46, sent a rambling, nine-page email to students in his Composition II classes explaining the faux pas — and defending, without being asked, his “entire life” of working on “issues of justice, equality, and inclusion,” the campus newspaper reported.
“The offended student assumed my mistake was because I confused that student with another Black student,” Trogan wrote, according to a Nov. 29 article in the Fordham Observer (https://fordhamobserver.com/66231/news/questions-remain-after-sudden-termination-of-english-professor/). “I have done my best to validate and reassure the offended student that I made a simple, human, error. It has nothing to do with race.”
He blamed the mistake on his “confused brain” when the two students arrived to class late on Sept. 24, while he was reading a classmate’s work.
What he should have done was claim it was a manifestation of ADHD. After getting the proper documentation together, he turns it to an Americans With Disabilities Act accommodation request. This then shifts the focus from what he said to the university's burden to accommodate a disability. LEARN HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED PEOPLE!!!
Writing the explanation article was a boneheaded move.
A Fordham University professor was fired after mixing up the names of two black students in class, according to a report.Hours after what he called an “innocent mistake,” lecturer Christopher Trogan, 46, sent a rambling, nine-page email to students in his Composition II classes explaining the faux pas — and defending, without being asked, his “entire life” of working on “issues of justice, equality, and inclusion,” the campus newspaper reported.
“The offended student assumed my mistake was because I confused that student with another Black student,” Trogan wrote, according to a Nov. 29 article in the Fordham Observer (https://fordhamobserver.com/66231/news/questions-remain-after-sudden-termination-of-english-professor/). “I have done my best to validate and reassure the offended student that I made a simple, human, error. It has nothing to do with race.”
He blamed the mistake on his “confused brain” when the two students arrived to class late on Sept. 24, while he was reading a classmate’s work.