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Dose of Reality
A college friend posted this on Facebook, in response to the news that a Yale professor cancelled a test yesterday because the students were too upset by Tuesday’s experience of democracy.
I cannot improve on it:
I’m so glad Yale charges $70,000 a year to teach kids that life gives you a holiday whenever you’re upset. Thinking about my friends who have both cancer and kids. Thinking about friends who’ve lost their jobs or their parents or, God forbid, a child, and still had to put food on the table and hold their heads high to be strong for others. Thinking about the countless times I’ve lost business suddenly, but still had to make payroll for the employees and families depending on me. Life is about resilience. Teach that, Professor.
As they say: mic drop.
Published in General
My college didn’t cancel a single class for 9/11, let alone a test…
What a bunch of sissies.
Well, I teach out here in the West at a institution of higher learning that is probably the exact opposite to Yale and the other Ivy-Leagues. I didn’t have any tests planned but we certainly went about our business of learning mathematics. I did notice some were sleepy because they were up late following the election. My sister teaches at a Catholic girls high school in LA and this what she wrote me in a email.
“2 students in tears; I gave them tissues. I gave brief talk about our system of gov’t, after every election someone is disappointed, experts aren’t always expert, our country will continue. Our job despite outcome is to live our lives & do our work. Today we begin the Industrial Revolution. This is our job.
“And we went to work.”
The army didn’t cancel war because of 9/11. In fact things got real, real fast.
Pansies.
I managed to make it in to class or work after every single election that didn’t go my way – and that was in spite of crushed hopes AND a hangover.
I was working at DePaul and some students wanted to take the day off because of the beginning of the Gulf War.
I said, “Sure, if you can name three of the countries bordering Iraq. We can all go to McGee’s and I will buy the first round.”
Of the seven college student present, not one could come up with an answer.
Kids today are weak. Let’s start mugging them.
No lie, they will think its their own fault.
Yeah, but they believe that if Hillary would have won that $70,000 would have become $0, so I can see why they’re upset.
My college didn’t cancel class for the assassination and funeral of JFK.
I’d like to know where all these kids (protestors) get the time to travel and stage their rants – doesn’t anyone have school or jobs? You can bet it was not a natural process, but instigated by radical element and they will not rest no matter what happens. It really gets old. I remember protesting too, but we knew why we were there and it was mostly peaceful. The interviewers never get the same answer twice right now. They are throwing out words like fascist – where are they learning this stuff?
At my college, classes were going on during the attacks, and were cancelled for the duration of the morning. I think that had something more to do with the fact that they wanted to give people an opportunity to check on their families on the east coast, and classes resumed almost immediately following the attacks.
My kids are 5 and 2.5, respectively. I’m already worrying about how to find them a college where they will both gain an education and not lose their worldview. I suppose more of that has to do with parenting than it does with college, but seeing the way today’s campuses have been transformed is indeed disheartening.
As I always say, a parent’s job is not to shield their children from the world, but to teach their children how to live in it. That job is also for anyone in loco parentis. I’d say such teachers suck at that job.
There are few. Hillsdale, maybe a military academy. My daughter was lost to leftism in High School; my son still considers himself “conservative” and I’m trying to educate him on what that means. He’s a sophomore in HS.
I’m guessing the students were cover for the professor, who was too grief stricken to administer the test.
I believe YOU went to Mines. A school for serious students! (my daughter is there now)
I also went to a school of mines…
I was arrested for climbing a water-tower (almost a year after 9/11), as a neighbor called in another terrorist attack; someone trying to poison the water supply. The night in jail was annoying, and the officers on the little swat team they arranged weren’t nearly as nice as the judge who dismissed it.
Unfortunately, crazy reactions go both ways.
It’s true. You couldn’t be a slacker at the old institution. I somehow managed it, though…
There are schools for mimes?
I’ve been interested in Professor Jordan Peterson from University of Toronto because he has been battling for free speech in Canada and is a very strong voice in battling the PC laws about gender pronoun use. Anyway, out of curiosity I was looking through a few YouTube videos of his lectures and something he said was very interesting. He said suffering is a part of life. If we are not suffering, someone close to us is. I thought about that and think it is true. He is an advocate of roughing kids up because the real world is tough. Hard to believe he teaches psychology.
I’m here all week… try the veal!
*ba dum bum!*
Not COC compliant.
But delicious to watch..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXUaQe3ziEY
These precious snowflakes will be eaten alive by their competition in China, Russia, Japan,etc etc.
Dang it, it was removed.
This kind of thing always reminds me of the scene in Apollo 13, where Commander Lovell’s son is in class at his military boarding school watching to see if his father gets killed.
We’re a different country. To be fair, we’re better in many ways than we were back then, but we’re far worse in some.
My college class, at the height of the Vietnam War protests, also enthusiastically and zealously protested the war. Until it was time to study for finals. Back to the library.
Becoming skilled, knowledgeable, and qualified to become part of the solution mattered back then. Today, it’s sufficient, it seems, for Precious Snowflakes to become skilled, knowledgeable, and qualified to seek out excuses to be offended and then to trumpet the offense and their woe.
Eric Hines
when I was a university sophomore three of my fraternity brothers got caught trying to steal equipment from a downtown stereo store. They tried to run but got caught anyway but one of them, an Adonis-like discus thrower on the track team got shot in the back with a shotgun and later died. It was around exam time and the dean of students called the fraternity together and among other things essentially said…..if you think you are going to get some special consideration because of this incident…forget it.
Heck with the kids, they were just an excuse. It was probably the professor who was more upset.
No. If they have useful services, they will come up with innovative ways to sell them. If they have no useful services, then they’d be eaten up by any competition at all. That’s a good thing.
Beautiful.
No way they compete in the world with their attitude. Whatever services they offer, someone who will actually show up and work will get the job.