A California professor called the police on a professor from a rival school who put her “private details,” including her allegedly exorbitant consulting fees, on social media.
After University of California, Berkeley, professor Jelani Nelson wrote on Twitter on Thursday to criticize the California Math Framework for having zero black authors while one of its professors, Jo Boaler, raked in “alarmingly lucrative consulting deals,” as much as $5,000 an hour, Boaler from Stanford University asked him in an email to delete his post and said she had contacted the authorities.
“As a courtesy to a fellow faculty member I wanted to let you know that the sharing of private details about me on social media yesterday is now being taken up by police and lawyers,” Boaler said in an email to Nelson, a screenshot of which Nelson posted to social media. “I was shocked to see that you are taking part in spreading misinformation and harassing me online.”
Nelson referred to Boaler as “Retweet Rachel” in a Twitter thread Tuesday and insisted that what he posted was not misinformation and was “a screenshot from the public record.” He told the Washington Examiner that Boaler’s accusations are “very serious.”
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A @Stanford professor just threatened me with police. After BBQ Becky, Permit Patty, Golfcart Gail, and all the memes, we now have Retweet Rachel. Public advisory: don’t call the cops on black people for no reason. Black people disagreeing with you on Twitter is not a crime. pic.twitter.com/es92C765NQ
— Jelani Nelson (@minilek) April 5, 2022
Nelson also criticized CMF in the statement to the Washington Examiner, calling it “a misguided revision of state guidelines on math education.”
Boaler said the posts Nelson had shared on social media were from another professor, this one a high school teacher from San Francisco, and they were sent to the police because they contained Boaler’s address. Boaler claimed Nelson changed the context of what she said to him in the email “to say I was threatening him with police/lawyers,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
“I wrote to him to invite him to chat, professor to professor, and am very sorry that my mentioning the police was ever perceived as a threat,” Boaler said. “That was never my intent.”
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Boaler did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
