Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once an application is complete in all respects (i.e. teacher reports, test scores, etc. are in), the folder is removed from the office's "dead file" and released to be read by admissions officials. An application will get two, sometimes three preliminary readings...
Dean K. Whitla, associate dean of admissions, compiles all the information on each candidate and computer codes it to produce the "docket," a listing of each candidate, his test scores, interview reports, teacher recommendations, etc. Every shred of information, except perhaps the student's essay, has been reduced to a number on the one line he receives on the docket...
When a case is presented in committee, everyone has the docket in front of him. The area man presents a summary, reading from the school and teacher reports, the student's essay and the interview report...
Things only got worse when he tried to make it up that spring. "Everyone in the course had failed expos the semester before. The teacher handed out a mimeo with 21 pointers on how to write a good composition. I thought it was below my dignity so I got angry...
...think of questions that wouldn't sound embarrassingly stupid; and after every section, I would leave despondent, furious at myself, my muteness unbroken. I can't help wondering now how different things might have been if there had been a few more women in the class, or if the teacher had been a woman...