<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>I started writing a response about how I didn’t mind “techie” at the high school level and below, but then I realized that what I actually didn’t mind was student self-identification as a techie at high school or below. </div><div><br></div><div>When I taught high school, I encouraged my students to call themselves technicians or stagehands (or any of the positions they were working) rather than “techies,” but recognized the value of camaraderie in the term. I firmly corrected any teacher or administrator called them techies. At the university level, I actively discourage any of my students from calling themselves (or allowing themselves to be called) a “techie."</div><div><br></div><div>The bigger red flag for me on the website is the “I can’t, it’s tech week” shirt.</div><div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 20, 2024, at 2:41 PM, Kristi R-C via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Anyone who uses “techies” is not someone I trust. </span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>