My friend’s granddaughter just graduated from West Point.
For some class they had to write essays about their lives and were graded. The grades weren’t based on form or style.
The more pathetic a student’s life was, the higher the grade. If you were down with the struggle, it was good.
She didn’t do well. Super smart girl, BUT she’s white, Protestant, was raised in a middle-class intact family, and there were no divorces ever in the family history. She actually got marked down for those things.
“She actually got marked down for those things.”
Wow! Having a conservative and successful family is now a reason for lower grading on essays.
In another state’s veto news.....
In Vermont:
“Vetoes on the state budget and child care bills emanated from the House of Representatives in Montpelier on the first day of the General Assembly’s veto session.
The Democratic majority House voted to override Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s vetoes on House Bill 494, the state budget, and House Bill 217, a piece of legislation that would impose a payroll tax to draw funding that would be used to provide childcare.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/vermont/article_918d0486-0f9d-11ee-b329-2beacdbf6383.html
Just think, a payroll tax to fund daycare! Soon, the old joke that the government will just have your pay directly deposited in their account and send you what they think you need will become true. And they will determine those that actually work need very little!
In today’s world she should have identified as a poor, pregnant black non binary Asian with native American roots whose pronouns are ze/shem.
She probably would have graduated as Joint Chiefs 4 star General.
A friend of mine that retired from the military had been teaching at West Point for several years. He left to get his PhD.
Bill Clinton changed the rules so that you no longer were required to have military service to teach at West Point. What that really meant was that no one with military experience got hired.
Thus my friend could not get back in after getting his PhD.