is there any way she can take a test and challenge the course?
Posted on 09/29/2014 6:34:51 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
Every year it gets worse. It seems that the community college that both my daughters have attended is steadily becoming a hotbed of liberal teachers.
This time it's an America hating, military hating, obama loving history professor. Im sick of this crap and I'm making a stand. I wanted to get with the freeper brain trust to plan the best course of action.
I havent done anything. I suspect if I complain to the dean nothing will happen, because I think the nut doesn't fall far from the tree. I'm sure someone out there has experience dealing with this sort of thing. All I want is for teachers to teach, not attempt to indoctrinate. They've tried with all three of my children and have failed miserably, but how many times have they succeded?
I tried something similar and actually got higher grades, but this was in an art school.
That’s all they can do
The thing is, very few of them actually believe the crap they spew. They think it endears them to their bosses, so they get the job security they can’t find elsewhere. And/Or they use it to cover up their own bias and prejudices.
Then they go home to their ethnically pure neighborhood “guilt free” to BS another day.
they only hire “fellow travelers”
Another thing. In my Graduate Teaching Assistant training, a senior professor was talking about how grieved professors are that students don’t think critically anymore. They just adopt the opinion of experts. She gave the example of global warming. This is at the most liberal college in the Big 12. If your daughters have well reasoned, rigorous decent, they’ll be respected.
If possible, use the process against them. Keep email records of everything, especially those where they make snarky remarks. It is quite possible they may do this, even if your daughter (respectfully) questions him/her. Ask questions about the syllabus via email and see if they deviate due to bias.
If you approach the Dean, make sure you have everything documented. The fact that you did this will make them (and the Professor) very nervous.
Hillsdale College BUMP!
What a wonderful resource.
DO NOT complain to the prof or dean. I can almost guarantee blowback and a bad grade. Not to mention the flying monkey activists they use.
Get her to record the profs and then send to this site:
Tell her to be discreet and anonymous.
I run at a CC and have for years. On my walk to and from my car I can see a picture of Hillary in a window and it has been there for years. Whoever put it there has been waiting a long time for the beast to return to the WH. It is truly a scary thought that they might soon get their way.
I’m not so sure. Neice’s hubby graduated from Liberty Uni and wanted to do a masters in ‘social justice’. Ugh!
One of the colleges recruiting my daughter sent a mailer bragging about its new “QUEER” student union as if that is something you want to brag about.
SICK!
If Richard Nixon had embraced the growing conservative movement in 1960 by choosing as his running mate Barry Goldwater or the articulate and outspoken Rep. Walter Judd (R-Minn.) and focused on the battleground states instead of trying to campaign in all 50, the US would probably be a vastly different place today, and the Kennedys would probably be about as well known as the Coxes of Dayton, Ohio.
Forget the Dean.
Have your daughters record the diatribes with her iPhone and then send the juiciest to your local Fox News Station, requesting anonymity of course.
That will put both the professor AND the Dean on the defensive, and you can just sit back and watch the fireworks.
In one daughter’s college writing course the course was taught using feminist theory and gender theory to work with different paradigms of critical theory review.
My daughter and I worked the course together for she was a high school junior and could not follow the readings initially. So I read along with her. We would read together, discuss and she would write.
One day she brought home an especially obtuse set of questions. I read them, we read them, we researched them, and then we suddenly realized that the professor did not understand the theories and that the questions were based on her misunderstanding of the papers.
After that little juncture, we basically strung together and bullS****ed the rest of the papers because none of it was real.
What did my daughter learn? That sacred cows need to be ignored, and how people who are on the cutting edge, sometimes are just following a pack. And sometimes it is ok just to dish the sh** back, get a good grade and move on. Stupidity exists.
Just my $0.02.
This is soooooooooo true. My hubby is a prof at a local college. Two master’s degrees and a PhD. He worked his ass off to get them. He was even dean at his last post in the UK.
When applying for jobs....he knew what bull$hit to spew. We would laugh until our sides hurt at the crap he would think they wanted to hear. That’s what it’s all about. Pretentious horse crap and playing it up.
He’s a lib....but I think he’s waking up.....God willing. :)
is there any way she can take a test and challenge the course?
Wait until your kids are out of their courses and out of the school.
Then figure out where their funding comes from. If it is from their state get some video or audio recordings of them saying something bad. Kick them in their funding. That’s the only thing that will have an effect.
Don't do it. These are not decent people.
Nevertheless, this is an opportune time for them to fine-tune their knowledge base, grasp the worldview that has a stranglehold on this nation, and choose their "battles" carefully. They should raise their hand and question incongruities. "What if..." questions about the inevitable failure of policies or positions on the issues. They need to challenge "facts" presented to them, with valid research and documentation to back them up.
As much as we might like to turn-tail and run back into the comfort zone of like-minded individuals, this is the world we -- and more importantly they -- have to confront. They might well plant a seed in another students' garden. They may well find many are like-minded, but don't know others sitting next to them feel the same way.
Yes, private schools are always an option, and are especially important in elementary and secondary education. They may well earn their undergrad or graduate degree within the cloak of comfort. But the challenge of exposing the fallacies of the left will remain, and will continue to grow in strength exponentially in a short period of time (look how far we've come since the 1990's...).
As far as grades go, for the most part they will probably need to regurgitate the pablum they've been fed; but their contribution of questioning the status-quo during class, and in social opportunities to provide an "alternative" viewpoint, will reap future benefits we can only imagine.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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