(Note – Google Translate) … But first, a reminder of the facts: in class, a student complains of having read a shocking expression in Forestiers et Voyageurs, a novel written in 1863. The lecturer searches without really understanding, then comes across the expression “Work like niggers”, page 99. The teacher apologizes. The word slips from her lips. A discomfort ensues …
…The two students who lodged a complaint were able to report on Maria Chapdelaine rather than Forestiers et Voyageurs. Soon after, they dropped out of the course. We were still at the start of the session.
McGill University therefore reimbursed them for the course.
But not only.
“We had completed a project with the teacher, she had corrected it and me and my colleague had taken it. So, we asked how the grade for this first draft would be the grade for the rest of our session. ”
“After a lot of time and pressure,” she says, the university complied…
