"No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
Key words: receiving federal financial assistance. It's a private religious school, meaning it is barred from receiving government funding.
If you meant Title VII, that is generally prohibited, but not in the case of religious organizations. Case law has found that they are free to discriminate in their hiring practices (https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment1/annotation08.htm...). It also doesn't stop a non-religious company from doing so but not disclosing their reason to the terminated employee, which they have no obligation to do in right-to-work jurisdictions.
Furthermore, reservations sit in a gray legal zone where they are considered semi-autonomous sovereign nations. In practice this exempts them from state law, but they are generally subject to federal law.
"The EEOC does not have jurisdiction over charges of employment discrimination against federally recognized Tribes if the alleged discrimination is based on race, national origin, sex, color, or religion (under Title VII), disability (under the ADA), or genetic information (under GINA)."
I think he wants to tinker, and learn more about how they work. What I neglected to mention is that he's already learned to program (developing Android apps, and he's also learned Python). He is a very bright and curious kid.
Btw, I support some Kenyan high school students and am looking at supplying a few schools with llamafile+models on flash drives for their computer science curricula.
I'm reviewing models, at the moment. Model selection will depend greatly on the hardware capabilities at each school. Phi-3 could be a good starting point.
The project is an idea at the moment. My contact in Kenya has direct access to the Principals of the schools that our supported students attend.
My thought is that the teachers would not have to do much. Many of the students already know python and could do self-learning individually or in groups.
A flash drive with llamafile+models and documentation might be all that it would take to get them started - even offline.
Bonus: Using llamafile, the same binary distribution works on MacOS, Linux, and Windows.
(replying to myself since I can't edit) In retrospect, I wonder if [the person I'm replying to] was referring to a different link in this thread, such as the rimstar one, which is pretty bad.
```ruby
if (user = User.find_by(email: 'abc@example.com'))
end```
Is it better to do this instead?
```ruby
user = User.find_by(email: 'abc@example.com')
user.update(status: 'active') if user.present?
```