Posted on 06/21/2022 5:40:58 AM PDT by SJackson
Excellent read thanks for posting.
Ditto.
Excellent essay - good post. I especially liked the final bits about the contrast between Orlando Patterson and Ibram X. Kendi with the negative outcomes for those who choose to be seen as oppressed. As an adult educator, I could feel the internalized offense taken by Professor K. when students chose not to perform and truly appreciate how she celebrated those whose work exceeded their current circumstances.
I have my own experiences too of course.
The trust fund loser white kid made a choice, as did steven. They each make again a choice every day. As did the hispanic kid and the older guy....
The teacher did her best, her choice each day.
Hunter Biden makes his daily choice. Lara Logan each day makes her choice.
God is great. Sadly man makes free will choices that sometimes harm himself or his children.
You? Try your best choice today. The guy next to you has to make his own. Prof K can only suggest/inspire the way.
The choice....is yours!
America was created to open thst choice, as was Christianity, however poorly “parents” in charge implemented and implement it by choice today.
I had a course where I was required to tutor a high school student.
My student was Jim.
He was a tall, skinny white kid who wore a black leather jacket.
He had lots of hickeys on his neck from his high school sweetheart who he wanted to marry.
He worked part time as a cook at a fast food place.
Jim had finished his four years of high school.
He needed one class to graduate.
I was tutoring him on this class.
It was summertime and I would take Jim on walks through the neighborhood by the high school. We would discuss the points of the class.
I felt like Socrates.
Jim received an A on his first test. He received an A on his second test. He received an A on his third test.
He really just had to show up for the final in order to pass the class and graduate from high school.
He didn’t show up for the final.
I called him several times, but he refused to talk to me.
I had to write a paper about my tutoring experience.
I had to explain what I had learned.
I wrote that I had learned that there are people who don’t want help. There are people who will spit in your eye when you try to help them.
Jim decided that cooking at a fast food restaurant was a fine life for him. My cousin’s son feels the same way. When he’s not drunk or high.
I saved a boy from drowning once. He tried to drown me to save himself. I hit him pretty hard to make him more afraid of me than the water.
Maybe that’s what I should have done with Jim. Beat the hell out of him until he would be afraid to miss taking his final.
Naw.
I couldn’t be around to sock him every time he slacked off.
Well, Jim, welcome to the life you chose.
I would have chose different for you, but you hated me for trying to help you.
And the beat goes on.
Perhaps a writing class at college level needs to have more open dealings with character aspects, like taking personal responsibility and some degree of conformity to what have been agreed upon as norms of a civilization. The ignoring of dysfunctional behaviors gives the student no benefit. Anyone can 'earn' an F. But to strive for some level of excellence is the most noteworthy goal. We the people have allowed that civilization aspect to wane in our loss of attention. Gutter rats like Kendi exploit that inattention and do their mischief right under our noses.
War and Peace was shorter.
And both are apparently over your head, so you diss it, as the degraded society has allowed you to devlo9p your sourt disposition.
Why doesn’t the first paragraph indicate what the article is about so that a person will know if it is worth the time to struggle through the setup?
Oh and when it all craps the bed they will double down and when real blood starts to flow they will say, “ we didn’t know sorry” if they say anything at all.
I haven't read the whole thing but I believe I was Steven, and the Prof's heartache is falling on bitter ears with me. I have a history of educators in my family, why did they and all their sisterhood fail me? It took the USAF and my wife to put me on a successful track. I still have disdain for educated idiots.
I have no doubt that you will.
Twenty five paragraphs into the article we finally see Prof K's lament.
I am not impressed.
Your last paragraph was one of the most poignant things I have read in a long time. It’s a gentle reminder to continue to pray for my loved ones. God bless you.
You can see it in their unerring choices that always keep them in Loserville, or fast-track them back into that city if they happen to accidentally make choices that take them out of the city temporarily.
There’s an excellent story embedded in here, but the composition is all over the place, meandering and lacking focus.
I can only imagine what grade that this essay’s subject, Professor Josephine K, would have given it.
No. It was not. This was well worth the 7 or 8 minutes needed to read it.
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