Re: Re(2): Student Evaluations of Teaching

[Digby Willard <dwillard@MAIL.CENTRAL.STPAUL.K12.MN.US>]

If this was meant as a comment on the average intelligence of cheerleaders,
I find it offensive and grossly inaccurate.  At the high school I attended
and in at least three of the schools I've taught in, a large fraction of
the brightest and most academically focused girls were cheerleaders.



>  She mentioned when I asked, that she was no longer at high school, but
> as valedictorian she had received a scholarship clear through college
> at Stillwater (upstate). I had no idea the rewards were so appreciable!
>   She was doing biology, with the intention of going on to medical
> school, and was home for Christmas.
>    She had been a cheerleader in highschool, it transpired.
> One can only marvel.


Digby