Posted on 12/17/2014 2:10:29 PM PST by TigerClaws
After schools such as Columbia University and Harvard started to grant students extensions on their exams due to the protests of the recent Grand Jury decisions in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri, left-wing students from across the country feel they should be entitled to the same special treatment.
So, at Oberlin College, which is perhaps the most liberal college in America, a student asked for exams to be delayed with a hilariously self-important email to her professor:
Read more: http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/professors-1-word-response-liberal-student-wanting-delay-exams-priceless-look/#ixzz3MCC60BRG
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http://www.ijreview.com/2014/12/218178-2-trigger-warning-oberlin-professor-rejects-exam-delay-request-one-epic-word/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=conservativedaily&utm_campaign=Education
“Nuts!”
Racist politics and liberalism in academia -— at its worst.
It is so weird to read things like this, I never communicated with my professors.
I believe that was a math professor.
In other words, a REAL professor, not a marshmallow major box top “professor” of yatzee studies.
I’m actually surprised that anyone in that joke of a college had to study mathematics of any kind, since we all know that math is NOT a friend of progressives.
“Fail”
“...struggling and feel traumatized because of the recent (and day-to-day) acts of racism in this country…
I am asking that you create an option (if you have not already done so) for students who do not feel like there are in a place, emotionally, mentally, or physically, to postpone the statistics final…..”
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I love the professor’s one word reply to the student.
As an aside, statistically speaking there are a certain percentage of students in statistics classes who are incapable of learning statistics and will do anything to avoid or postpone the final reckoning that will be provided by their statistics final exam.
Statistically speaking, the student requesting this delay is probably at least a standard deviation in basic intelligence below her fellow statistics students. Of course he/she likely would not comprehend what that means.
Professor Michael Rainey is a Math Professor... Teaches Statistics.
“...extremely traumatized”
Good Lord what a latte sipping drama queen.
Earlier generations of kids his age had to sit and hold their disemboweled friend’s body in his hands while he took his last breath from being hit with a mortar.
Now that is something to be upset over. But taking a test? GEEEEZZZ
Had she been at Bastogne, she’d really know what being ‘traumatized’ is.
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Oh, yeah...this kid had a childhood stewed in left wing dingbattery.
In today’s Title IX world, faculty are better off with responses like this. If the professor had tried to explain then the students would have twisted his words to get him fired for insensitivity to their plight.
Instead, they made a request that acknowledged his right to decide whether to give an extension and he made his decision. To twist that into discrimination, they would have to show a pattern of discrimination. As long as he continues with “No” then he is ok.
It is almost zenlike in its perfection. Laconic. Elegant.
I went to the school website and was quite surprised that you could get a 4-year degree in Math, Chemistry and Physics. Most of these hippie schools wouldn’t think of offering these courses, it would cut into their Medieval Lesbian Poetry budget. Sadly, in the list of top 10 conservative colleges posted a while back, I saw a depressing lack of hard science and math curricula. One school had no chemistry classes and only went to Calc I.
She probably had to look that word up in the dictionary.
A simple clear “no” is the best way to respond to a tantruming toddler.
And she can’t argue, weasel, criticize the reasoning, or call anything biased if the answer is two letters.
Short and simple is literally the best in this case.
Took the Professor an entire minute to make up his mind. Well, that and to stop laughing.
Yup. I’m poor at math, and breezed through even my advanced statistics classes. I was shocked that some of my friends had trouble.
Agreed. Post #14 said it even better.
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