Posted on 12/31/2014 6:53:35 AM PST by TigerClaws
A UCLA professor was called racist, and guilty of a “micro-aggression” against black students for correcting grammar and spelling issues on their papers. A protest was organized and students claim the professor has created a hostile climate on campus for his actions.
Downtrend reports:
I thought the race debate reached a new low when Gummy Bear maker Haribo was accused of racism for making African mask Gummies, but what happened at UCLA this week makes that look sane. 25 University of California Los Angeles students participated in a sit-in protest because, get this, one of their professors had the gall to correct grammar and spelling issues on some black students’ papers.
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And a piss-poor excuse of a public education system that passes them on.
I read a bunch of UCLA undergraduate midterm exams recently while visiting a relative who is a TA in the history department. The overall quality was pretty high, though there was a noticeable difference between native Americans and immigrant students (mainly Asians who were engineering students fulfilling a humanities requirement). The grading rubric advised not to evaluate on language skills but on subject understanding.
People have to stop bending over backwards to accommodate this culture or they might as way just keep bending over and kiss their dupa goodbye.
might as “well” edit
So...we are to hold blacks to a lower standard...to help them?
In the liberal/progressive mind all vestiges of civilization are oppressive.
LOL..I am sure I would have been on the HOT SEAT...
During my time as a CJ Instructor for Community College, most years in HSs for college credit, there were lots of corrections, time in the hall, swiping notes they wrote to each other, and some real tough times for those who acted up or talked while I was talking. I guess it’s good that I don’t teach anymore, as I would be the one called racist or disciplined without pay for making them actually work for a good grade.
Grades are grades....put up or go home is the way I see it.
Why should one person do better or the same as another,
when they are lazy, poorly performing, and intimidating.
I had one of those, he crushed cigarette butts outside of the entry to the campus. His father was a politician. He threatened to have him come down and talk to me. I told him “Please ask him to come down and see me, I was planning to call him about your behavior. And you will get a “D” in this class, if you don’t improve in next couple of weeks”. He was smart but a bully, and lazy.
You see a ‘D’ is passing, but it will NOT transfer to the University... where he wanted to go. As it turned out, I never heard from his father, mother, or other family members. He did not do well the next couple of weeks, and got a ‘D’....And since he wanted to major in CJ, he would have to take that class over.
So much for trying to bully the Instructor
There is either a standard to pass or get a good grade, or there is chaos.
There was a way, once, but the Republicans just didn’t want to let the Dems leave in peace, and so they shredded the Constitution to force them to stay.
They don’t care about the actual edumucation, they want the paper so they can pretend they’re edumucated and force some shmuck into giving them an AA job where others will have to carry their weight while they get paid. Or government job, where they don’t have to work at all.
They are doing blacks no favors by letting them into colleges with first-grade English skills (and maybe second- or third-grade skills in other subjects). We are at a point where a “minority C” should be as much a part of our lexicon as a “gentleman’s C”. Anyone who has supervised staff quickly realizes that resumes of “preferred minorities” are generally meaningless; a simple paragraph in employee screening generally gives an idea as to where the applicant stands on the work material as well as basic English.
When I was in a state school years ago many affirmative action students left during their first semester; they saw through the BS and realized they lacked a basic foundation for higher education. It was very depressing, and I genuinely sympathize with them - they’d been lied to for years, and felt real inferiority when they saw how far behind the non-black students they really were.
Don’t underestimate the rage that can cause.
That “road” is fast rising up to meet us ORAG...be ready.
My son has grammar issues. He uses commas excessively. He was once classified as African American when he was a child because I failed to check a race on some enrollment forms. The computer defaulted to African American as it was the first choice on the list. Lol. It took several years to reclassify him. Can my son be given a break in college due to his previous status as African American? Hahaha. (We used to receive all kinds of invitations to AA events encouraging our son to prepare for college and explaining all the opportunities for assistance that AA have that others do not. It was interesting.) The same son received some AARP cards in the mail the other day. We don’t know how he came to be on their mailing list.
After three car accidents, and a head injury, my grammar and punctuation aren’t what they used to be either.
However, at one time I did have some great students and a few went on to work in the FBI, and other organizations. That was a decade ago. I left due to some leaders, who were far left, and quite adamant about changing things...among other inappropriate behaviors.
We are talking about California here, right? That is not surprising to me about this idea of non performance being alright for those of color.
They know they lack basic skills, but don’t think that should prevent them from pretending to get four more fake years of education.
At my college there was a building with most of the “remedial classes”; these were high school-type classes affirmative action students were required to take (whites wouldn’t even be admitted to the college if they needed them). They had to spend the time and money just to bring them up to a college freshman level, and didn’t receive any college credits for the classes.
What a racket; affirmative action in college is as much a part of the “poverty industry” as social workers and Section 8 landlords. This situation continues because a lot of non-blacks make a lot of money from it.
That’s an optimistic and short sighted viewpoint that this current type of government will last though their careers. Quite a large portion of this country’s citizenry hold a much different viewpoint. Especially the party they support who after they get the huge latino vote they are working on kick them to the curb and escalate their eugenics program. They need to wake up!
Yep, blame “social promotions” for the reason most of these miscreants were able to graduate high school and get the notion in their head that college was even an option for them.
It would be better than voluntarily boarding the buses and railcars that will deliver us to the “re-education centers”.
(translation)
it bes betr den gitin yur lazy ass on da train goin to da camps.
Red states and Blue states... Won’t work. The socialists would live in the conservative areas and commute to the liberal areas to work (torment). Like national healthcare, they had to make sure everyone is under their thumb or it wouldn’t work.
I got stuck in one of those “remedial” English classes my freshman year, not because I couldn’t write, but because I am slow at writing by hand, and so I didn’t finish a timed essay completely during the placement exam. You would think they could judge from the part that I did finish that I shouldn’t be in that class, but I guess they needed to fill it up, so I got stuck there.
Really, there were only about one or two other people in that class who should have even been at college level, and they were foreigners. The rest of the natives in that class were black and they were hopelessly ignorant.
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