"But...that's not FAIR!!!"
Posted on 11/25/2016 8:01:58 AM PST by Cheerio
Anti-Trump millennial snowflakes who skipped class to go protest the outcome of the presidential election just got some really bad news. Patriots across America, we now have proof common sense is still alive on at least one college campus!
Oberlin College in Ohio is not excusing students who skipped classes and exams to go protest against President-Elect Donald Trump. Failing grades due to missed work during the semester due to protesting, will not be suspended, Cleveland.com reports.
Anti-Trump students at Oberlin College circulated a petition to urge the college to institute a “no-fail mercy period.” The petition reportedly garnered 1,300 signatures.
If the Ohio college had agreed to the demands of their snowflakes, all failing grades would be removed from their record.
The lowest possible grade a student could receive, no matter how poorly they did or how much work they missed, was a “C.”
Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov responded to the students’ petition via email on Sunday. He bluntly informed them that the college’s deans have decided not to give them any mercy period after giving the matter its due consideration.
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Hilarious rejoinder!
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Hi Mom and Dad, I have to retake 3 classes to finish my Lesbian art in a Post Modern Era degree and need another $60,000.
How? Well, I skipped the finals to protest Trump.
Mom? Dad?
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.
There are occasional bright spots among hires of recent college grads, but look closely and you’ll discover many if not most were home-schooled. The rest could well be described as vegetables, except for the fact that they’re so aggressively stupid.
The most important lesson to teach your kids. I remind mine every time I see them. I encourage them to do what they want but always put in this disclaimer.
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).
The ones I’ve worked with seem to know everything — at least they think they do. Most are incredibly dense and no sense of the real world.
After Kent State in May of 1970, IIRC, most college classes were suspended for the spring semester.
C is failing.
Lena Dunham is an Alumni. ha Ha HA HA HA!
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.
When these little snowflakes get out of college & find a job-—they will be in a new world. Those employers won’t give them an ‘instant vacation’ because they wish to walk away from their jobs & go protest ANYTHING.
I have had more than one conversation with parents & grandparents who think their children are so special & that they will succeed out of school. I tell them that IF they have been getting grades ‘on the curve’ & have been given ‘trophies for participation’ & have had mommy & daddy & grandparents buying everything & doing everything for them all their lives——
The real test will come in the first week ON A JOB.
That employer isn’t your relative—They want the job done & they are NOT going to give your little snowflake a pass...
That employer has a business to run.
That employer cannot pamper your little kid & infuriate the rest of the employees. Really bad for morale.
That employer doesn’t need a building full of snowflakes.
IF your little snowflake cannot cut the mustard, they won’t have a job longer than a week.
No wonder so many are working at McDonald’s. Even there, they are beyond useless.
Waaaaaaah!
You should have told us in advance that if we didn’t complete our work we would fail! Not fair!
Big news.
There were two students that completed most of the “home work” for athletes.
When he asked them why they were doing it, and so blatantly open about it, they told him that it is “just the way it is here.”
Too many colleges are in it for the sports or the revenue streams.
You’re right; judos to the school for attempting to maintain a learning atmosphere.
These idiots don’t know what they want; they know what they DON’T want: jobs, or expectations they work one.
Tell me about it. I went back for Grad School, online, between 2006 and 2008. About two-thirds of the class were kids who had just finished their Bachelor’s Degrees.
Master’s Program. Management of Information Systems. Most of the “youngsters” in the class had problems with spelling and grammar. About half had trouble arguing rationally from facts.
Truth be told, that was the first time I ran into a “Special Snowflake”, who, on a technical topic, argued for a totally unworkable approach because she “felt” it was right, and we had to respect her feelings, irregardless of facts. . .
I would have gone 1 step further and SUSPENDED this group right here for 1 Month.
“The petition reportedly garnered 1,300 signatures.”
SUSPEND ALL OF THEM.
No, that's standard interwebs clickbait headline writing.
However,’a dog ate my homework’ and my ‘grandfather died.. again’ is still an acceptable excuse.
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