Posted on 03/27/2013 11:39:22 AM PDT by Starman417
Dr. Deandre Poole, the vice chairman of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party, was teaching a class at Florida Atlantic University and told his students to write Jesus on a piece of paper and then place it on the ground and stomp on it. Notice he didn't have them write Muhammad on that piece of paper, hmmm....I wonder why?
What he didn't count on, and neither did the school, was that someone would have the temerity to actually have a problem with stomping on Jesus. That student, Ryan Rotela, complained. What did the school do? They told Ryan not to return to class, not to speak about this incident to other students and that he may face suspension. Then they backed the Democrat teacher:
"Faculty and students at academic institutions pursue knowledge and engage in open discourse. While at times the topics discussed may be sensitive, a university environment is a venue for such dialogue and debate."
Of course when the incident made national news the University backed down:
“We sincerely apologize for any offense this has caused. Florida Atlantic University respects all religions and welcomes people of all faiths, backgrounds and beliefs.”
Many people wonder how it is that over 60% of the youth in this country voted for a Democrat. This kind of indoctrination is why. It's going on all over the country and has for many years.
Take this post by Warren Blumenfeld, a just retired professor of education at Iowa State University. He writes about a course he gives:
Each semester I teach the course CI 406, “Multicultural Foundations in Schools and Society,” in the School of Education. I base the course on a number of key concepts and assumptions, including how issues of power, privilege, and domination within the United States center on inequitable social divisions regarding race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sex, gender identity, sexual identity, religion, nationality, linguistic background, physical and mental ability/disability, and age. I address how issues around social identities impact generally on life outcomes, and specifically on educational outcomes. Virtually all students registered for this course, which is mandatory for students registered in the Teacher Education program, are pre-service teachers.
Gee, you think this kind of bunk being mandatory for teaching students will have an effect?
He goes on to lament that a few religious students had the gall to write in their final essays that he and his teachers assistant, both gay, were both going to hell.
It's heartening that some students were courageous enough to write their actual opinion, whether you agree with them or not, rather than what they knew the professor wanted to hear but this is what he complains about:
(excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
If only if he would have done this with Obama’s name...
or MLK
I’d have made him spit on Obama’s picture.
I see the good “Dr” graduated from an institution famed for its historically non-diverse makeup.
Or Mohammed, for that matter.
There are real PhDs and then there the ones that this fool has.
Real ones require actual study.
On complex subjects.
Mr (not professor- - you’re certainly no professor)Poole, please contribute to the advancement of society by ceasing to pollute our atmosphere with your foul CO2.
Yes, some PhD progams are tough, and so are the people from them. I am in R&D in the semiconductor industry, and all the engineers I work with aren’t really “engineers,” they’re considered “scientists” because they all have PhD. In Electrical Engineering.
But they prefer “Engineers.” Don’t know why. I am not one of them.
Place where I work is hiring IT interns for the summer. Good Program, in the past it's been a good feeder program to get us some decent people.
I usually sit in on the interviews. This year I received the dubious distinction of sorting through the resumes. Whee.
So this week, I'm looking over a stack of resumes from these kids. First one I picked up looked great. Such-and-Such Scholarship award winner. Deans List. Etc. I said "hmm" and set it to the side.
Next resume... "Recipient of the so-and-so Award. Dean's List. Etc" I thought, "hmmm. Two in a row." and set it to the side.
There are several dozen resumes. The Awards and Scholarships differ, as does the work experience, but one thing is the same. Every single student is on the Dean's List. Just to be sure, I asked the HR wonk who handed the stack to me if she'd culled any resumes out. Nope.
Sez me, what's the point to grading if everyone is exceptional?
I'm in IT and prefer the title "Senior Systems Engineer" because a) that's what I do and b) I worked my butt off for that degree.
But I'm not rude about it, just if I had my druthers, that's what I like. Titles don't mean much in IT, anyway. :-)
Or Allah.
They’re all exceptional. Some are just more exceptional than others. At some point phoney degrees in nonexistent fields of study and sciences are going to evaporate like fog in sunlight when these kids are hit with the reality of life and the working world and no amount of self-esteem, ‘’gender studies’’, ‘’intercultural/multicultural communication studies and the rest of this nonsense is going to help these kids in anyway and they and society at large is going to be in big trouble. I value and respect higher learning but it seems to me the more kids stay in school the dumber they get.
I'm prejudiced, but I think that Engineering degrees still are useful. As are Accounting. Nursing. Any "skilled profession".
BUT, if the degree has "Culture", "Arts", or "Studies" in it.... never mind. Too bad, too. Used to be that a "Liberal Arts" degree produced well-rounded students skilled in critical thinking. Not anymore.
Might be bad for their self-esteem if you had some way to distinguish between them based on merit, dontchaknow. This is how it goes when everybody gets a trophy. I bet you aren’t allowed to cull them in the interview process, either.
Yes, they are. The acronym for that is STEM. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Those degrees pay.
Truth be told, it depends on the interviewers. If it's all IT people, the weed-out process is pretty direct...."This one is good, this one is not."
If the HR wonks get overly involved (usually they don't, it requires work, something that they're allergic to and avoid like the plague) then the process is more convoluted. Touchy-Feely. "This person is very, very good in their own unique way, but Person B is a more suitable fit to the position."
And so on. I *do* like working in IT, because the PC-ization, while a minor consideration, is nowhere near as insidiously prevalent as in other company functions. Bottom Line, if the computers don't work, the company doesn't make money, and the dollar signs spin rapidly into the red. For now, anyway, the higher ups recognize that throwing double handfuls of LGBTQ Studies Affirmative Action hires at technical problems, won't get them fixed.
That symbol FAR too closely resembles that of my beloved Alma Mater, Indiana University...:-( (Which I know is not much better than any other university as far as indoctrination is concerned)
“... While at times the topics discussed may be sensitive, a university environment is a venue for such dialogue and debate.” So why can’t we all freely and openly discuss affirmative action/diversity quotas vs the 14th Amend’s “equal under the law”; or why we still have black racist antebellum state diploma mills like Howard; or 96% of an ethic group voting Democrat, or blacks getting VD and committing crimes at maybe 500% the rates of other groups; or “The Bell Curve”? No, those and hundreds of others are forbidden. An FSU social studies professor gave me an “F” for his class and kicked me out for saying Joseph McCarthy was right! They are really taxpayer supported socialist and racist propaganda venues.
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