Posted on 03/20/2024 9:11:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The very least parents expect when they send their children to any educational institution is security.
This is the safety of both the physical and mental variety.
After this safety is provided, the educational institute must provide a forum for a healthy exchange of ideas and debates.
Education isn't merely about imparting knowledge but also about challenging students intellectually and compelling them to confront opposing perspectives.
This is not a place for dogma but for open-mindedness. A student must be taught to challenge the seemingly immutable and form opinions after digesting facts about any subject from multiple perspectives. An educational institution should be a haven for free expression. Students must be allowed to express all kinds of ideas, irrespective of their propriety so that they can deduce the right path.
This is the bare minimum that is expected.
Alas, the standards plummeted to such an extent that elementary requirements sound like a Utopian dream. The mere mention of these standards will probably elicit giggles and eye rolls from even the most reasonable of people.
How bad is the situation?
How bad is the situation?
An internationally renowned professor was sacked because less than a quarter of the number of his students were upset about receiving low grades and demanded it. You read that correctly he lost his job for being a thorough evaluator of his students' work. A once-reputed university willingly segregates its students based on race, citing the provision of 'safe spaces' as an excuse.
Universities frequently capitulate before student mobs who do not want to hear the opposing perspective of their own.
The University of California, Berkeley, is an example of a once fine institution that has fallen.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Aristocrats have private armsmen for their heirs.
In 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the rich “are different from you and me,” and Ernest Hemingway supposedly retorted, “Yes, they have more money.”
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we
are. They are different. ”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald in short story The Rich Boy published in Red Book.
The same leftards who want to do away with the police. Leftards are the biggest hypocrites ever!
Private security is needed in the liberal utopia of Berkeley, Californiacation? I don’t believe it.
I’m not sure why. We were told just yesterday that crime is down. The FBI reported numbers reflect that “fact”.
Obviously the parents have financial means but I guess they are tooooo Stoopid to realize a good education can be had at many other institutions.Get outta’ UC and CSU systems....bankrupt ‘em.
Leftists aren’t even human beings.
College students are children?
They send their children to Berkeley to be good communists then hire private security to protect them from communist agitators running the streets and neighborhoods??
Why not just avoid Berkeley?
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CANNOT find the words for how glad I am that I went to a ONE ROOM SCHOOL
YES-—BY THE FALLOUT FROM “PARTICIPATION TROPHIES”
If your children,, who are at UC Berkley, are Caucasian or Asian, they need lots of protection...
Berkley is where the current race war started 60-years ago...
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