Modern Educayshun

[newracer]

[cmailliard]

Here is a real world example.

[NoahSki]

Man, I'm really not looking forward to using my GI bill this upcoming year. I'm looking forward to the education but not the liberal hippy fucks that go along with it.... I'll be studying for metal working and fabrication so hopefully it will be a bit too manly for the soft hand hippies to be interested in, unfortunately I'll still have to do core classes... It will be hard to not flip out when the turds open their mouths

[PugnacAutMortem]

A good way to avoid a solid portion of your college education resembling this is to go to a commuter college. Most people at a commuter college have jobs and families so they aren't as sucked into the academia bullshit that most on campus living 18-22 year olds are.

[Alpha2]

A good way to avoid a solid portion of your college education resembling this is to go to a commuter college. Most people at a commuter college have jobs and families so they aren't as sucked into the academia bullshit that most on campus living 18-22 year olds are.

That much is true, but, the faculty is still hard core...and that goes way back to when I did the community college thing in the 70's. Serious indoctrination there. (Obviously, it didn't take, yay me!)

[BigBear]

That's a darn scary video... way too close to home...

[th3w01f]

Man, I'm really not looking forward to using my GI bill this upcoming year. I'm looking forward to the education but not the liberal hippy fucks that go along with it.... I'll be studying for metal working and fabrication so hopefully it will be a bit too manly for the soft hand hippies to be interested in, unfortunately I'll still have to do core classes... It will be hard to not flip out when the turds open their mouths

Take CLEP and DSST tests, I tested out of half of my bachelors. You can get rid of most electives this way and it's much quicker than taking classes.

[mjzman]

There are traditional and conservative college teachers out there. My wife is one. And she knows several others among her colleagues. The difficulty is in transferring that info to students. Right now, generally, the college administrative system is so PC and frightened that it is near impossible to get that out, though its fine for the liberals to do it. My wife would love to have a class mostly made up of students who take responsibility for learning and put in some effort. She is so fed up with the special snowflake students today who want everything given to them, make no effort and spend class time on their smartphones- a lot like in that video above.

It would probably be possible to get through college with mostly traditional teachers if there were a way to select for them. On that my wife said a computer program developer made a presentation to the school president recently pushing a program he had developed whereby faculty could identify their teaching methods and students could use that to match with their preferred learning style. Probably will never happen though.

[Irving]

Mjzman, does she have parents calling in to argue about grades?

[mjzman]

Yep. Fairly often. Then has to try to get the parents to understand that at the college level grades cannot be discussed with parents-- for sure not (I think) without specific written permission of the student. Especially hard with all the high school students being pushed into taking concurrent college courses. Which makes me wonder if anyone sees the incongruity:
The newspaper last week had a long article about the latest version of K-12 standardized testing. Said overall 60% of students are not competent for grade level promotion. Yet they encourage them to take courses at colleges.