Posted on 08/05/2016 7:08:01 AM PDT by C19fan
Scott MacConnell cherishes the memory of his years at Amherst College, where he discovered his future métier as a theatrical designer. But protests on campus over cultural and racial sensitivities last year soured his feelings.
Now Mr. MacConnell, who graduated in 1960, is expressing his discontent through his wallet. In June, he cut the college out of his will.
“As an alumnus of the college, I feel that I have been lied to, patronized and basically dismissed as an old, white bigot who is insensitive to the needs and feelings of the current college community,” Mr. MacConnell, 77, wrote in a letter to the college’s alumni fund in December, when he first warned that he was reducing his support to the college to a token $5.
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I actively dissuade my children to even consider going to my former school. Don’t want to waste a tonne of money having them be brainwashed by leftist cooks who drive critical thinking out of all their students and leave them unable to fend for themselves. Hell with that. As for a donation, I’ll stop by to take a crap on the front lawn some day.
But where did our current elementary teachers obtain their education?
Perhaps it is the chicken or the egg but it seems like the changes first started at the university level.
You have a point; I was just saying that regardless of what one learns in college it is much more important that they learned little in the 12 years before (and not always due to the teachers).
On the EPA, what would have happened if the universities had completed true scientific studies that indicated there were no global warming evidence. You could say the EPA money corrupted the universities but shouldn’t the universities said we are not corrupting science? Didn’t they have that responsibility?
“As an alumnus of the college, I feel that I have been lied to, patronized and basically dismissed as an old, white bigot who is insensitive to the needs and feelings of the current college community”
So tell the trustees to go [bleep] themselves & find their filthy capitalist dollars somewhere else.
Doesn’t take rocket science.
Funny how the same folks that rail against “Big Oil” never go against “Big Academia”.
Everything is “unexpected” to liberals.
When I was in college eons ago the late great Bill Buckley Jr. was warning conservatives about “Behemoth U.” with its homogenized liberal faculty & industrial capacity fundraising apparatus connected to the Federal grants pipeline.
Nobody obviously was listening.
This is long overdue. People should not give to universities that undermine the culture rather than advance it. This goes for public universities, also. They get plenty of private funds that they love to spend on their own pet projects.
Hillsdale College listened.
;^)
It seems to me that the breakdown of the family has contributed to poor performance in public schools. When I went to grade school (about 30 kids in a rural setting) I believe all my classmates had both parents at home. (Now we are looking at only 59% countrywide). When you think of how disproportionally disruptive single parent boys are, it is no wonder public schools have gotten worse. It seems to me the universities should have done a better job about raising concerns about the impact of single parent homes on education.
College Professors respond: “Looks like we’ll have to raise tuition to keep our $150.000 tenured positions. Better start lobbying government to give the kiddies bigger college grants too...”
You should reduce it to $5. It will cost them more than that to process it.
Being cut out of wills is what really hurts, most bequests being far larger than annual contributions.
I went to undergraduate and law school from 1961 through 1967. Most of my professors were libs. However, they were also quite fair and did their best not to be influenced their students’ political beliefs. They also genuinely believed in free speech and academic freedom. Things have gone a long way down since then.
Oh definitely; there is no attempt to encourage free thought but rather a ramming of leftist positions instead...
While families play a large role, the unionization of teachers is a huge problem (with lifetime employment for teachers often leaving incompetent ones in place) and the influence of politics (in which “failing” is a thing of the past) play huge roles as well. Whenever a public school teacher uses the parental role excuse (which may be valid), then I ask why we have to pay 6 figures to part-time workers (working 180 days per year) on such a hopeless quest...
My children have plenty of classmates from intact families who don’t have to learn anything while still passing; on the parental side you have to get your children into “honors” classes (which are probably comparable to regular classes 40 years ago) in order for them to really learn anything (and have anything expected of them). Otherwise, the education industry is quite happy to simply move them through...
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