Washington correspondent
At the end of one of her classes at Georgetown University Law School in Washington DC last February, Professor Sandra Sellers chats with a colleague, David Batson. Due to a pandemic, the course was held via Zoom video conferencing software and the two professors remained connected after the students had already left.
"You know what?
Sellers said to his colleague,
I hate to say that, but I end up having this angst every semester, because a lot of my students with the lowest grades are black. ” “It happens almost every semester,”
she continues.
And it's always the same, someone will tell me: “Oh, come on!
You know, you have some really good ones too. ”
But there are also generally some who are quite simply at the bottom of the rankings. "
Batson doesn't respond, but nods.
No one is logged in anymore, but the system continues to record their conversation.
Access to the video is however
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