"But...that's not FAIR!!!"
Sadly, this should have been a given.
The “Trump Effect” is taking hold.
Trump will be appointing the officials who will be providing research grants and student loans.
Good news. At least some schools know right from wrong when it comes to their responsibility to properly educate students.
Teachable moment: Actions have consequences.
The only due consideration such inanity deserves, is immediately being filed in the garbage can.
The lowest possible grade a student could receive, no matter how poorly they did or how much work they missed, was a “C.”
What kind of a joke is this? So a vegetable can be enrolled for four years and graduate?
They need to learn about failing because that’s what they’re going to be doing living in their parent’s basement well into their 30s.
Oberlin, of all places.
Now, that’s a shift in the wind.
Welcome to the real world, snowflakes
It’s a new kind of snowflake. No two of them are not alike.
2016 - Where doing the right thing is “HORRIFIC NEWS”.
Reminds me of the story a few months back about the unpaid interns who complained about the company dress code and were summarily fired.
Good!!!
Way back in the 70s I had a college class which, on a particular day, almost all of the class skipped. I forget what the occasion was, but the absence of so many students was predictable.
The professor showed up with a special lecture. He began it, something like this: “I have a new topic. It’s not in your books. It won’t be mentioned in any other class. And it WILL be on your final. I will teach you today how to answer this question. People here today now stand an excellent chance of getting an A in the class. People who are not here stand almost no chance of getting an A. And let me remind you that I grade on a curve, so if you were to help someone who did not attend today, you will likely be hurting yourself. Be smart: Don’t share your notes. Now, let’s begin ...”
An even more severe example should be set for these students and others who are protesting the attempts to turn this nation around. We have suffered long enough with THEIR philosophy in place. This has got to be completely finished no matter what it takes.
$51,324 per year for tuition, BTW.
It’s about time. Oberlin’s reputation took a real hit when BLM protests were just starting out. Their students were the useful idiots who enabled BLM to gain a foothold in Cleveland.
How could there be any other answer?
I seriously hope Trump and his new dept of education comes up with an alternative to universities for middle class success in life. There is NO WAY (except in abject fun) college is worth the price it costs today.
College used to be a leg up over people who did not go. It used to be the difference between upper middle class lives, with great vacations, nice homes, new cars, good schools and struggling to make ends meet but making it.
Now, college hampers anyone outside of tech departments, by the cost alone, and doesn’t guarantee any better jobs for undergraduates. We need works study internships after high school. Like Europe has.
Kid picks an industry and then attends appropriate community college classes for a couple years while working for very little pay at a place where the boss has agreed to teach certain basics and then test him on them at intervals. Sure, this happens informally, but we should formalize it more. Give out certificates. Have someone be a “certified restaurant worker graduate, “ who would then be more attractive to any restaurant than some illegal off the street. That example would have the kid at 21 know how to set all kinds of tables, know the current equipment in kitchens and dish washing stations, know various sauces, how to cut costs, basic bartendering (just a little, not full bartender school), be experienced in waitering under stress, and know restaurant bookkeeping, food safety laws, and have actual experience. That kid would do better after finishing than college graduates today (who also end up waitering).
After Kent State in May of 1970, IIRC, most college classes were suspended for the spring semester.
The administration should not have said “After due consideration...”
A simple “Hell, no! Don’t be so stupid. You are here to get educated. Now get back to class right now or you are expelled without refunds.”
That would have answered student Kiki Acey’s immature complaint: “And many of us are still working every day just to be able to afford this education that fails to tell us how to free ourselves.”
“Fails to tell us how to free ourselves.” What a simpering idiot. Get educated. Get good grades. Get a training that employers will value and make them want to hire you. Work hard. Excel. How the hell does somebody reach 18 years of age and not know these simple truths of life?
Snowflakes and buttercups, indeed.