F.B.I. Training Instructors Punish Women, Not Men, for Mistakes, Complaint Says
Source: The New York Times
By Adam Goldman
Nov. 23, 2018
WASHINGTON — Danielle Snider was sailing through her training to be an F.B.I. agent last year, passing her fitness, academic and firearms tests. Then came the last phase: training on tactics like entering a house and confronting an armed attacker.
Ms. Snider, an Air Force Academy graduate, stumbled. In one day, instructors at the F.B.I.’s sprawling facility in Quantico, Va., wrote her up four times. With less than two weeks to go before graduation, she was bounced from the course in January.
But in one instance, a man in training with her made a similar mistake and it was overlooked, she said. It was part of a pattern, she and other women who failed out of the academy said, in which instructors — almost all men — scrutinized them more closely because they were women and treated men differently when they erred.
“Everyone is making mistakes,” said Ms. Snider, 30, who found another job with the federal government as an investigator. “I felt it wasn’t the same playing field for women. I think it is fundamentally unfair.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/us/politics/fbi-academy-women-discrimination.html
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Teachers worth their salt need to recognize the teaching moments and use them to their advantage. Drumming students out of their courses shouldn't be the goal in any case. Whether the student is male or female should be secondary, or not even taken into account. Something tells me they had hidden/secret objectives, and producing first-rate graduates of the course wasn't one of them.
