Posted on 10/04/2017 6:14:35 AM PDT by artichokegrower
A group of University of California, Berkeley students recently attempted to protest their own exam and demanded a "take-home essay with significant time to prepare" in its place. While the professor refused, he did offer to carry on a conversation with them outside of the class, but the protesters decided to complain to the Department of Ethnic Studies instead.
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The chickens have come home to roost at Berkeley.
They created a Frankenstein’s Monster. Now they must live with it........................
First they came for one professor and no one spoke up...
The inmates are running the asylum.
Maybe exams are now considered racist. Wouldn’t want to leave any of the children behind, you know.
If they don’t get their way they’ll join antifa, rent hotel rooms and murder Trump supporters...
A diploma from Berkeley should be regarded as a liability. No intelligent employer would want these ignorant troublemakers in an organization.
This is the same belligerence that was shown by activist students in the late 60’s over the Vietnam war, purportedly. They would actually take over professors’ offices and go through their files and belongings.
Department of ETHNICS!!! Wonder which ethnic group....I’m SURE it’s the Asians!....sarc
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I can see two approaches for a class of 50 students. I am using a trite example, not really suitable for a college class, but I think it makes the point:
In-class exam: all 50 students sit in a room with a piece of paper and try to write down the names of the 50 states. If you have memorized the necessary facts, this in-class test is not hard.
Take home exam: since you can use reference books, or even work in groups, we need to do it differently. Each student is assigned a different state. Each student must crunch the economic statistics for their state covering the last 20 years and compare growth in state tax revenue against demographic shifts between urban and suburban enclaves.
What’s that? The take home exam is really, really hard? But, hey, you get to use Google and stuff, right? And you can work in groups — so the guy who has Hawaii and help the girl who has Texas. Except the states are totally different, so helping each other isn’t much of an option.
Well, if they fail their take home test, maybe they will learn a lesson and sit quietly for the next in-class test.
Students have been “taught” to think of themselves as customers purchasing a product of their own choosing, rather than as mentally amorphous blobs who need their brains to be gut-trained into shape. I tell my local Chinese take-out which food I want because I am the customer, and that is how students today think of their professors—and I say this as a college instructor.
What we are seeing in the NFL this season has been going on at college campuses for at least a decade, and is only getting worse, because the general population has yet to conclude that the vast majority of people going to college could have successful lives while avoiding college. When that realization begins to filter into the general population, colleges will collapse the way the NFL will collapse. The experience of Mizzou losing a large percentage of its student body will become commonplace. As a college instructor, I selfishly hope it doesn’t happen before I am gone, but I wouldn’t blame the non-students if it did.
The revolution tends to devour its own.
This is why a college degree today is worthless. If we had done this we’d received an “F” and a boot out the door.
F
The everyone-gets-a-trophy generation is ruining this world.
Do not be surprised if the student body starts demanding they do not have to attend any classes. Just register for four years and get the degree.
No diploma with the word “studies” on it is worth the paper it’s printed on.
“Students have been “taught” to think of themselves as customers purchasing a product of their own choosing”
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