Posted on 07/02/2013 5:10:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
No, he’s the beneficiary. We are the victims.
Excellent article, wouldn’t it be nice if it went viral. Ouch!
The stink of affirmative action meeting the trajectory of the Peter Principle.
I wonder how many nano seconds would pass before he spilled the beans?
As I put it even BEFORE he took office for the first time:
Barack Obama and his wife stand at the exact crossroads
where Affirmative Action, Identity Politics, and White Liberal Guilt meet.
That’s pretty much govt. employment also, where minorities (i.e., non-white) are hired and promoted by skin color. Actual competency is meaningless, real work can be done by hiring contractors. The USA govt. is racist and more and more is the enemy of white people.
“Positive Actions”
I never heard of that.
Well,I guess when you take classic literature OUT of the grade school curriculum, you have to do SOMETHING to replace it and to introduce young people to right thinking and right doing.
There’s a large generation of Too Much Self Esteem (TMSE) victims. They are in the workplace and you can hear them pontificate daily with no idea that there are things they don’t know all that well.
They are an extremely smart generation, if you don’t believe me just ask them.
I heard this very statement made about Gov. Palin in 2008, corrected for proper pronouns, of course. It was made by Joseph Ellis, history professor at Mount Holyoke College, before a panel discussion at the New York Historical Society. It got big laughs from everyone but me.
Talk about projection.
Wrong premise, America is the victim...
‘A’ for effort? More hoops, golfing, and vacations ($ ones) than any president before him. And with all his meetings with IRS leaders and muzzlems, when does he have the time to work for the country? He doesn’t need time. Other people figure out the plans and he reads them on the prompter. So where’s the effort.
come to think of it, Obama’s Nobel Prize does not even rise to the level of a participation award.
In my lifetime, American Education has adopted two failures as its model of perfection.
The first was Dr. Spock who cautioned parents not to spank their children because it would hurt their ego. While the basic concept was valid - prohibiting unregulated spanking - the execution was a failure. Spanking, IMHO, should be rare and used only in cases where continued behavior could result in life (the child’s life) threating situations.
The second was Dr. Maslow and his hierarchy of needs. Again, another excellent idea that was inappropriately applied. There was no short cut - you had to build from the bottom up and if you lost one of the basic needs everything above it collapsed until that need is fulfilled again. Proof? How long will a highly motivated person (Maslow’s top of the pyramid) last if they don’t have oxygen (the bottom of the pyramid)?
In both cases the authors and their supporters have admitted that their education theories fail miserably when applied to basic education. Dr. Spock did his in writing about 20 years after he published his theory and recent educational physiology text books at the MA level are saying that Maslow doesn’t work below the collegiate level.
So, what is left? Do I dare suggest that we go back 100 years and readopt the theories that made America the greatest nation every seen? Do I dare suggest we build models on successes and not failures? Why, where would all of our 20-pound cranium professors do if they had to produce success instead of theory? Why, they might go the way of the Union of Soviet Socialist republics and end up on the ash bin of history.
I think we’re the victims.
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