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Started by wedjat, Apr 29 2011 03:34 PM
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Posted 23 December 2016 - 08:27 AM
No, in seriousness, I agree with much that article has to say. I had a student this semester, who I've had in class before. When she started the term, I noted her new last name, as she had gotten married. A few weeks later, the husband was dead of a heroin overdose. She was gone a week, came back, and finished with a good grade. I don't know that most students could have done that. I don't know that I could have done that. I've had students with cancer. I've had students with physical disabilities and mental illnesses. I've had students who've been raped. That these students push through life's obstacles and complete a degree is impressive.
Now, as with any massive group of people, we should not be so feeble minded as to assume they're all the same. As I've said repeatedly, the students shown in videos, crying because a building is named after Jefferson and he had slaves or demanding an exclusion of alternative ideas, is not my experience. I have had entitled students. They earn their grade the same as anyone else and if their sense of entitlement runs up against my grading, my grading wins every time. I've never once had a student be so entitled that they took my grading procedures to the Dean or anything like that. So, while the so-called "special snowflakes" undoubtedly exist, this is far from the norm. The typical student I see is going to school and holding down a job to pay for it, because they care a lot more about student debt than about the social justice of a building's name or a statue on campus.
The irony of this, to me, is that now, as the right badgers us about how we can't just talk about a large group of people in negative ways and expect them to respond positively, that's exactly what they're doing with college students. That's dangerous. These students will be around to vote for a LOT longer than the groups that Democrats failed to connect with in 2016. Dismiss them at your own peril.
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Posted 09 March 2017 - 11:23 AM
Canada named 2nd best country in the world…again, report finds
http://globalnews.ca...ankings-survey/
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Posted 06 April 2017 - 07:32 AM
"Whereas scientists, philosophers and political theorists are saddled with these drably discursive pursuits, students of literature occupy the more prized territory of feeling and experience." - Terry Eagleton
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Posted 07 April 2017 - 08:14 AM
Here are 10 Republicans who have done a complete 180 on Syria now that Obama’s not president
https://www.rawstory...-not-president/
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Posted 11 April 2017 - 09:44 AM
"Whereas scientists, philosophers and political theorists are saddled with these drably discursive pursuits, students of literature occupy the more prized territory of feeling and experience." - Terry Eagleton
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Posted 12 April 2017 - 02:11 PM
Looks like Bill O'Reilly is taking some time off over the sexual harassment stuff. Some are reporting he's gone for good. Fox says not true and he'll be back.
My schadenfreude is strong here.
"It was like I was in high school again, but fatter."
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Posted 16 April 2017 - 11:48 PM
Punk ass neo nazi shit stain punching a woman in the face at Pro Trump/Anti Trump rally. Get a load of the guy in the Jesus jacket kicking somebody on the ground too, gotta love that. What a bunch of little bitches. But would else would you expect from some Neo Nazi who is 5 foot tall? Of course he's going after women.
Edit, new video
"It was like I was in high school again, but fatter."
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