Discrimination

I think I've discovered a new branch of discrimination. I've heard of two examples in the past two days. It's called educationism. The discrimination against educated people.

Ashlee, a girl I work with, deals with the company's scanning problems. If anyone has a problem using their scanner or with software problems dealing with the scanner, she tries to fix it. Recently, she has had a handful of people telling her that they can't open a folder. Once she's looked into the problem, she discovers that is it a FILE, not a folder that won't open. It is much more common for the file to not open, than a folder. When she tries to explain that a folder on the PC is just like a manilia folder which holds the files, they blow it off and tell her that they don't really need to know all of that - just if the problem is fixed. Yesterday, she asked someone to click a radio button and they couldn't figure out what she was talking about. She explained that it was the gray circle next to the phrase on their screen that when clicked, showed a black dot inside. They just wanted her to call it "that gray circle," not radio button. After getting off of the phone, she asked me if she should be "dumbing" herself down. I told her absolutely not; people should learn up, not dumb down. There is a difference in trying to show off your intelligence and calling things by their given names. Those people have educationism.

Cory has a friend named Christina who has a seven year old playing baseball. She is on the SATS (Scott Area Team Sports) board. He heard that other board members do not like her and may be trying to get her off of the board. Why? Because they don't understand the big words she uses. Isn't that ridiculous!?! I understand that not all people on are the same education level, but ask if you don't understand something, ask; learn! Don't be an educationist!