If students are being harassed and driven away from a subject by their peers I don't think the out of date curriculum is the most significant problem in that classroom.
This is a high-school, so pubescent boys making disparaging remarks and teachers unable to control class are both expected and completely mundane. Certainly they wouldn't make it into a USENIX blog post, and I don't think anybody would infer from these events that "tech is sexist".
So the curriculum was the best reason I could figure why this is on USENIX.
(I certainly don't want to excuse the shortcomings of this particular teacher, and there are many, but I think the system is setup for failure)
revelation|12 years ago
So the curriculum was the best reason I could figure why this is on USENIX.
(I certainly don't want to excuse the shortcomings of this particular teacher, and there are many, but I think the system is setup for failure)