[gracesdad]

“Students wondering if they should hold to their principles or just give the liberal prof what he wants to hear.”

Grammar problems — and believe me, plenty of college students have them — are not a matter of liberal or conservative. Grammar is grammar.

The student in this video, no matter who he is, appears to think he deserves a B just because he says he worked hard and he’s there. This is what professors see all the time. Why aren’t Freepers outraged by his entitlement attitude?

[hunter112]

Why aren’t Freepers outraged by his entitlement attitude?

I saw the confrontational attitude, and am repelled by it. But I'm even more repelled by the idea that it's veterans who are being stereotyped as having this problem, and not rich kids or affirmative action students.

[DBrow]

“Why aren’t Freepers outraged by his entitlement attitude?”

Because that’s wrapped up behind the scary veteran male with lethal military training who questions the prof. If they wished to make a neutral point about students with an entitlement problem they easily could have done so, but they make the person male, a veteran, and someone who does not oppose the war. Making the person a vet is, I think, supposed to raise the fear factor because he’s had military training and could pose a physical threat.

If they had chosen a more generic student then the entitlement problem comes to the fore.

And as you can read in the posts, being graded down for conservative or constructionist views is not uncommon, so is the scary vet actually feeling entitled to a better grade, or does he feel that the content of his work is what’s being graded, not the grammar?

I have personally been penalized in grading because I did not take the proper Marxist viewpoint, or pacifist viewpoint, and I know that this is a common complaint.

[DBrow]

I need to revisit this- I said

“And as you can read in the posts, being graded down for conservative or constructionist views is not uncommon, so is the scary vet actually feeling entitled to a better grade, or does he feel that the content of his work is what’s being graded, not the grammar?”

A bigger issue is, this is how our professions and media get filled with leftists with a unified viewpoint. The leftists and Marxists get media, communications, and teaching posts because they get better grades.

Those with different viewpoints get filtered out.

[Troy McGreggor]

"The student in this video, no matter who he is, appears to think he deserves a B just because he says he worked hard and he’s there. This is what professors see all the time. Why aren’t Freepers outraged by his entitlement attitude?"

You're such a leftist mole. Why don't you just admit it? You're not fooling anyone who is paying attention. You troll all over FR. The reason why 'who he is' matters is because someone CHOSE for him to be a veteran. It didn't happen by accident, it was done intentionally. Is that hard to understand?

Lets extend your logic a little further. In your mind, "Der ewige Jude" isn't an anti-Semitic film, because it is irrelevant that the Germans chose Jews as the characters/subject of the film, and so you can see that the Germans were just trying to illustrate bad behavior. Whoever they were, they were bad. So really, it could have been anyone, and no one has any right to object to it. Is that about right?

[Petronski]

Why aren’t Freepers outraged by his entitlement attitude?

Because his "entitlement attitude" is fictional, just as he is.

However, Penn State's smear of veteran students--through the production of this video--is real.

[domenad]

You’re right about the entitlement attitude, but the intimation is very clear - the professor should be afraid because the student is a veteran, i.e. veterans are people to be feared. They could have totally left that out of the video and there would have been no change to the intended message.