Posted on 12/22/2014 5:46:50 AM PST by Timber Rattler
At Oberlin College this week, the president rejected a petition signed by more than 1,000 students demanding no failing grades this semester. Student activism over decisions by grand juries not to indict police officers for the deaths of unarmed back men in Missouri and New York remains strong. And unlike most student protest movements, this one has extended into finals -- and has some students asking for flexibility on grades or exams, and others taking the unusual step of protesting in libraries during a period when student stress about academics is high.
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It says:
"I would really like to see the normal grading system suspended for this semester and replaced with a no-fail mercy period. Administrators should require professors to exercise complete flexibility in what students are saying they can produce academically. Require that every professor listen to what their students are saying and if that means rather than writing a paper students instead meet with their professor to simply discuss in groups their paper topics or if tests are taken collectively with professors there are ways to make sure we are learning what we are supposed to be learning in ways that are not so taxing in times like this. Students in this moment should have complete access to alternative modes of learning while we process what's happening. Basically, no student especially black students and students of color should be failing a class this semester. A 'C' should be the lowest grade students can receive this semester. Professors should be required to work with students, who would otherwise be at risk of failing, to create alternate means of accessing knowledge."
(Excerpt) Read more at insidehighered.com ...
The kind of losers who actually show up for these protest events are typically taking courses in which a grade of “F” hasn’t been given out in decades.
You can just about be sure that they didn’t have a bunch of physics majors marching around with a collection of juvenile signage and a load of self-righteous indignation.
Perhaps if they would attend class, instead of indulging in tantrums over things they don't even take the time to understand, they would learn proper grammar and thus avoid writing sentences like this.
The school should respond with a Facebook Page listing the names and pictures of all these pampered, spoiled brats. Call it:
Too Immature for Real Life and Work!
Instead of holding up signs and passing around ridiculous petitions, they could have been studying. Their parents should cash in those college funds and take a well deserved cruise. Yeah, I know, the parents raised them in their own image.
A liberal college should be offering a ‘Prostest and Demonstration 101” course. In fact get a degree in it. Think of the career path-—more like a rabbit trail.
I would not regard a degree of any kind from that joke of an institution with any respect.
There is a price to be paid for being Leftist morons, but I’m shocked to hear it may be paid at a place like Oberlin College.
self-centered entitled generation of red diaper doper babies.....incapable of intellectual honesty or hard work
Oberlin is fully of uber liberal pu**ies. They will all end up beheaded by the muslims in a few years, and “praying to allah” as it happens - idiots.
Give them what they want. When they go looking for jobs, the HR departments will determine a degree from Oberlin is worthless.
Here’s a link to a psychobabble email a student wrote to one of the Oberlin professors requesting a delay in exams due to “trauma”.
The prof’s one word reply: “No.”
Fat ugly girls and faggish hipsters. Our future leaders.
Oberlin was the FIRST (of many) schools we crossed off the search list for our daughter.
Give them the grade that they earned, then throw in an “A” for stupidity
LOL
“...(1) consequences have actions,”
did you mean “actions have consequences”?
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