P.S. I was going to ask about the terms of your NDA. While I agree with greater transparency, I (perhaps idealistically) hope it can be done without breaking promises.
However, I also have a principle, showing honour to honourless dogs is worse than useless.
He couldn’t understand why he had needed to do this, and indeed, refused.
I have to disagree that this is ineptitude. He knows which evidence he has to conceal from you, and is doing so effectively. Of course by doing so he only confirms that it is harmful to his case, but it nevertheless grants plausible deniability. Especially as I expect anyone who can fire him will collude in the concealment.
When I submitted this to my boss for approval, she was flabbergasted, and explained that the evaluators job was to collude with the grant proposal submitter,
Sadly I cannot prove this, but I read this after writing the above paragraph. I wasn’t primed on ‘collude.’ I’ma go ahead and conclude nothing happened to the poor bastard sideswiped by a thoroughly unexpected honest appraisal.
every single project I evaluated listed their ‘process’ and then said that their ‘goal’ was to enact the process.
Pays the piper, etc… Whoever informed you about the grant application was probably hoping you’d pick up that they were not to be taken seriously. The point of the grant program is to give goodies to certain demographics. The process was indeed the goal, no matter what anyone else said.
There’s a limit to how incompetent the rich and/or powerful can be. A single spot check would have caught this, if it wasn’t what was intended.
A third. This is, of course, absolutely unacceptable.
I wonder how many of the 2/3rds could have but understood that wasn’t the point of the program and didn’t bother.
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I can also explain the parent/teacher/math class thing, but you won’t like it. But, very short form: you can’t say ‘racism’ and then just stop thinking.
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Edit: I should mention I’m surprised that such overt racism still exists, and I’m going to update a few theories accordingly. Especially, that you can have lily white AP classes without instantly dying under a rockslide of disparate-impact lawsuits. I can’t help but wonder if the gadgetry is related.
“The point of the grant program is to give goodies to certain demographics. The process was indeed the goal, no matter what anyone else said.”
The job of being the grant writer, and evaluator, are probably themselves goodies. In fact, the author of the article is probably viewed as ungrateful for doing the job he was hired to do so scrupulously.
P.S. I was going to ask about the terms of your NDA. While I agree with greater transparency, I (perhaps idealistically) hope it can be done without breaking promises.
However, I also have a principle, showing honour to honourless dogs is worse than useless.
I have to disagree that this is ineptitude. He knows which evidence he has to conceal from you, and is doing so effectively. Of course by doing so he only confirms that it is harmful to his case, but it nevertheless grants plausible deniability. Especially as I expect anyone who can fire him will collude in the concealment.
Sadly I cannot prove this, but I read this after writing the above paragraph. I wasn’t primed on ‘collude.’ I’ma go ahead and conclude nothing happened to the poor bastard sideswiped by a thoroughly unexpected honest appraisal.
Pays the piper, etc… Whoever informed you about the grant application was probably hoping you’d pick up that they were not to be taken seriously. The point of the grant program is to give goodies to certain demographics. The process was indeed the goal, no matter what anyone else said.
There’s a limit to how incompetent the rich and/or powerful can be. A single spot check would have caught this, if it wasn’t what was intended.
I wonder how many of the 2/3rds could have but understood that wasn’t the point of the program and didn’t bother.
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I can also explain the parent/teacher/math class thing, but you won’t like it. But, very short form: you can’t say ‘racism’ and then just stop thinking.
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Edit: I should mention I’m surprised that such overt racism still exists, and I’m going to update a few theories accordingly. Especially, that you can have lily white AP classes without instantly dying under a rockslide of disparate-impact lawsuits. I can’t help but wonder if the gadgetry is related.
“The point of the grant program is to give goodies to certain demographics. The process was indeed the goal, no matter what anyone else said.”
The job of being the grant writer, and evaluator, are probably themselves goodies. In fact, the author of the article is probably viewed as ungrateful for doing the job he was hired to do so scrupulously.