Some users singled out students who had been offended by Urban Congo, posting their initials and class years for everyone to see and making some students feel unsafe.
"It strikes me as unfortunate that football games can be used as occasions for prayer, the effect of which is to make some students feel like religious strangers at their own public schools," he said.
Yvonne told me, "Some instructors proclaim, 'This is a safe space,' but just calling it safe doesn't make it safe". We look carefully and boldly at the curriculum and classroom dynamics for what is threatening and makes some students feel marginalized, invisible, excluded.
It is ironic that by tracking and ranking students, our schools not only reinforce notions of fixed ability; they make some students feel more valued than others, and communicate to students that those in authority do not condone contact across tracks or ability groupings.
Allopathic students underscored that the "type of community" they would have to live in would be an important determinant of job choices they make: some students felt strongly that they did not have the ability to blend into rural life and establish a rapport with a rural community (which might be illiterate and also speak a different language).
School dances, intercollegiate sports, pep rallies, sex education, campus police--all of these things may make some students and teachers feel quite safe and others feel quite uncomfortable, vulnerable, or even threatened.
This made the students feel bored and less motivated to share ideas.
Mike's polite demeanor always made the students feel at ease.
For veteran writing workshops to flourish, I found, they needed to stress the writing part over the veteran part, and they needed to focus on improving students' work over making students feel good about themselves.
When visitors asked what he could do to make students feel safe again in school, he suggested that teachers be trained to carry concealed weapons in class.
