Hadi PartoviVerified account

Now I know based on our past conversations now is about the time you’re gonna hit me with the teacher story and pivot this convo to the very great work you all do with schools,

I’ve said many times that this work is very much needed and these teachers deserve all the flowers for helping to teach our babies in the place where they sit each and every day. But...

As many of us have shared including @ayahbdeir so eloquently in her medium post; unfortunately teaching coding in schools does not answer all of the questions around access to tech esp for women and poc.

Finally you’ve mentioned the great work from several of the women on your team many of whom which I’ve had the pleasure of meeting. Real talk? Seems like a missed opportunity NOT to give them the platform to rep for http://code.org  especially on this issue.

Believe me when I tell you I felt the oversight there as much as would any woman in a leadership role who is forced to do the heavy lifting in an organization while as it’s been said in articles a “charismatic male” gets the public acclaim and credit.

Thanks so much, especially for your generously noncritical tone. I'm not going to talk about the teachers - teachers got more air-time on the TV piece than I did, which made me very happy. That's not what was left out of the piece.

I think the hardest thing you ask is the idea of declining 60 Minutes altogether. That seems wrong for the stakeholders in @codeorg's community. I need to digest whether I could have done this, esp in context that I was told this was a piece together with @ayahbdeir.