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?
You’re in a Ph.D. program and you’re saying “speak the truth” when you can?
Are you serious? That’s not a good idea. Get your degree first. Really.
Also, look at Liberty University Online, it is more expensive than Community College, but it might be a fit.
A friend who is retired as a prof and taught history had a poster with pics of all the presidents on the classroom wall. He cut out Bill Clinton’s two terms. XD.
Hillsdale College is one answer. Otherwise, just understand that the “professor” is an @$$ and just get through the course without harming the G.P.A. Then move on to better things.
As a 55yo adult, I took a PE class at the local CC...Essentially training for a marathon. We would do intervals. Something like 4 x 400 with a 2-3min recovery. During the recovery period, while we were all standing around trying to catch our breath, the “professor”/coach would launch into vile, anti, Bush screed.
After the third time, I caught him alone during a break...Told him I was there for PE, was interested in his views of Anaerobic Threshold AT (exercise science) and I had zero interest in his political rants and that if he continued I’d talk to the dean!
Never heard another word.
There is not much you can do. ThA liberal professor can ruin your daughter’s future by giving her a bad grade out of spite. Her best course is to listen and nod and then go about her life.
You can’t fight them all
So if you want to take action, look for the worst of the bunch and target just one. Its up to you to decide if they have crossed a line somehow, and how you will gather evidence, and to whom you will present your case.
Unless your daughters are taking political science courses I would suggest to you or to them to politely and pointedly tell these professors that they/you are paying their salaries to get an education in the courses they chose and are not paying to listen to some liberal professors half ass political views anymore than you would pay a plumber to fix your sink and instead get a bill from him on his political thoughts.
#2 is right.
The dean hired the guy in all probability. If he didn’t, he supported hiring him actively or passively.
The attitude of the staff is a reflection of the attitude of the management. Consider the source.
What can you do? Probably nothing.
People know about crimes in the administration and say nothing. A much bigger issue than a liberal instructor in a JUCO. Why do they remain silent? Because they have already seen in the FandF testimony, the justice department whistle blower early in the administration and the poor slobs that spilled their guts about Benghazi...... Nothing happened. There was no champion of right to act and protect them. Nothing was done. The inmates are running the prison and have broken into the population.
There is no standard of right and wrong. Anything goes. The do whatever feels good libs are in charge and it is too far gone to turn around. This is why I now am actually happy about each new and growing outrage. It just makes the end that much closer. Decent people are not outraged enough yet to take collective decisive action. I offer Vaughn in Moore, Oklahoma as evidence. He should have killed that animal when he had a chance. He was too soft to do it though.
I am sorry for your problem but I doubt a thing can be done. I am very sad for all of us.
LOL. Thanks for the advice.
Truth!
Best suggestion yet. Don’t get mad, get even. What he says though has to be really bad in a sound bite.
agree!
As sorry as it is to admit, I agree with spouting the bilge to be able to get the grade in order to move ahead where a challenge will be more meaningful.
Since it's way too easy to go off on tangents when right thinking people try to discuss these things, let me try to draw a bead on the heart of the problem, without getting lost in the details on how it got this way.
What you are witnessing is a triumph of a philosophy of education called "experimentalism," and in particular one flavor of one kind of experimentalism that was given the emotive label "progressive" when it's designers first began a slow march through our institutions more than a century ago.
One big problem we have in trying to tackle this monster is the simple fact that even most of our teachers do not know what "philosophy of education" they've signed on to, nor do they or most parents know that every teaching professional is required to adopt this single flavor of experimentalism as their own philosophy of education - to the exclusion of all others - in order to receive a license to teach. It's one of the largest, unrecognized scandals in the history of this country, centered on our teacher colleges, where only a handful of the most esoteric professors are even aware of what is going on.
Leaving a lot of "stuff" on the sidelines, the problem on a federal level can be addressed with the defunding and sunset of the Department of Education.
On the state level we need to always return to the source, the monopoly of one kind of a single philosophy of education hidden right out in the open by the colleges that teach our teachers.
Once we draw the monster out the open, reform can begin. Before that, the whole education institution, on an international level, is arrayed against its own reform, and we'll be tilting at windmills.
Just some thoughts, explaining where I think the battle could be won, and why I think such a battle would take at least a generation.
Yeah ... attend the class, tape the really good parts ... and upload them to YouTube. Now that would be fun!
I’d be happy your kids want to keep going. My daughter couldn’t take it anymore after her first year.
I kept telling her to just write the BS papers they wanted to see. Pretend you agree. But it was intolerable and I knew it. That was when the teachers actually showed up for class, far too many days she’d show up ready for class and there’d be a note stuck on the door about another cancelled class.
If you can’t beat’em then make a fortune off of them...
seriously. Several years ago the junior college located
40 miles from my little home town placed a branch campus
here. Across the road from the campus a group started a
co-op, organic/natural food store complete with a deli
(can you smell the warm curry chicken dish?). These
people knew that junior colleges are magnets for all the
local left wing nuts and that the enrollees include
much, much more than recent high school grads. This store
is always packed. Envision some of the lefty types who
hang at your local library and you get the picture. The
store is like a Trader Joes on steroids.
All the stupid liberal JCs and their commie teachers
need some place to deposit their ill gotten money and
you could be laughing all the bank over it. Open a
store.
Many expensive University degrees are financially worthless in finding a decent job after graduation.
Consider trade schools if that is a career job choice.
Many successful people never graduated college, rather self educated themselves .
You have to play their game. The lib profs will ruin your student’s acedemic life for fun and spite. Wait until they are done. College is as vicious a gang as any.
Thats exactly what she has started doing.
Both of my daughters realized very early on that most college degrees arent worth the paper they’re printed on. They’re very wise in the ways of the so called academic world. In this case, my daughter needs about five classes from the jr college and then will transfer to a 4 year school for ag business. My oldest endured this bs and is now at the University of Houston well on her way to a degree in biology.
It just kills me that they have had to endure such blatant brainwashing attempts.
I realize that if I speak up through traditional routes, my daughter will pay the price. Fortunately, I’ve learned that if you attempt to fight a fair fight, you lose.
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