Funny how an idea changes when it becomes personal — and connected to something to which budding socialists can relate.
From Campus Reform (March 29, 2019):
More young people than ever before now say they prefer socialism over capitalism. But students at Florida International University weren't so open to socialism if it were to apply to their GPA.Please watch the short video below:
Read the full article HERE.
That is how you fight this. Put it in terms the students can understand.
ReplyDeleteYou equate issues like income disparity and political power with grade disparities?
DeletePlease, you're more intelligent than that.
There are a lot of reasons for income disparity. I know Ducky is a well-educated individual who, for most of his life, worked hard to achieve whatever he has in his nest egg. Does he really want to see a time when a high school dropout is paid the same as he, even when the high school dropout hasn’t any of Ducky’s bona fides? Get real, lefties. We live in a country that offers equal opportunities, not equal outcomes. I do not believe that most leftists actually believe in such nonsense as guaranteed equal incomes. The point of the video is perfectly communicated.
DeleteDucky,
DeleteHow do you fix the income disparity between a lower-paid high school science teacher and a higher paid person working in a commercial lab?
No, mustang, we live in a nation where social mobility is declining.
DeleteI don't believe in any such nonsense as absolute income equality but I am willing to pay more to support a living minimum wage.
I believe in the end that lead to a more mobile, profitable society.
Education is a doorway paid for by the public. It offers an equal opportunity to those who are willing to walk through it. When people choose not to walk through that doorway, they have no one but themselves to blame for all that follows. Granted, the efficiency of educational systems varies from state to state, but overall, the US education system deserves no more than a D minus —which, considering what the damn things costs, is a disgrace. Our taxpayers and our young people deserve far greater than what they’re getting. If there is a decline in social mobility, then we have to start with that. It is amazing how bright and excited kids are in the first grade, and how turned off they are about learning by the time they reach middle school. We can thank the eggheads on the left for this. And, by the way, the average high school graduate today is only marginally qualified for a minimum wage job. Good job, progressives.
DeleteDucky said: "I believe in the end that lead to a more mobile, profitable society."
DeleteYour belief conflicts with reality.
Wherever the min wage is increased, entry level employment shrinks.
Ed , the effect of minimum wage laws on employment is NOT a settled issue by any means.
DeleteI wonder how low the class average would fall were the policy to be enacted. C? D?
ReplyDeleteOn a bell curve averages are always C.
DeleteHowever in the short run the top grades would fall and everyone would get a C. The smart ones would get out, and the average would still be a C.
Ed,
DeleteThat's exactly how it would work!
Ed,
DeleteI suspect you are right, but that the 'C' average would be maintained by the teachers lower the absolute scale that the average represents. Take all the geniuses OUT of the IQ test, and the average would still be 100... but in absolute terms, it MUST fall. In other words "orange" would become the new "black".
In other words, as the students "slacked off" the C range (70-80%) would become 50-100% would become 0-100% as less and ever less effort is imparted to getting a grade... rendering the grade, an automatic 'C', meaningless.
DeleteI doubt that after a semester or perhaps two, that kids would even show up to class...
DeleteAs my Juice professor used to always say, "You can't push with a rope".
DeleteFJ, I get that. It just occurred to me while typing that a C is the average. Or the mean.
DeleteYou are right about the aggregate "smarts" dropping.
And it's all great until you run outta other people's grades. Then you have to raid Harvard, Satan's Vatican.
ReplyDeleteGrade inflation would result.
DeleteEveryone gets an A. No one gets a C.
And no one could do the math to figure the average.
LSP,
DeleteHarvard, Satan's Vatican
Good one!
I am taking an adult education course in film. Our Prof made the comment yesterday that her students are now at the point that their only concern is to get the "C" and its getting worse each year.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside also mentioned she has to be "careful" in selection of films as students are prone to excessive weeping. Depression and potential suicide are issues to be considered in developing her courses.
Besides, you only need good grades to gain admission. Once your in, students are banking on the subject of the degree and the name of the Institution which granted it.
Delete...although in "adult education" setting most people are their out of personal interest?
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ReplyDeleteYes, Venezuela comes to mind...
Delete...so ask them how they like free healthcare NOW.
Delete:)
Delete...evidently after you run out of spending other people's money, you also run out of Cuban doctors AND medical supplies.
DeleteSo stick with what you've GOT Social Democrats. Democratic Socialism is a bridge to nowhere.
DeleteSocialism in all its "glory":
ReplyDeleteApril 3, 2019
LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Journalist Describes An ‘Almost Unimaginable’ Crisis In Venezuela. “The U.N. estimates that it’s upwards of 3 million people who have left. Now remember, this is a country of 30 million people. So we’re talking about 10 percent of the population that has gone. And you see this when you walk around the streets of Caracas, which I have, or Maracaibo, which I did just a few weeks ago. There are areas which are completely empty. You walk down streets and you see that there’s two or three people in one house, and then another house is gone, or another house has got a family of what looked like squatters, because they’ve just moved into the place.”
More:
On one end, these countries are trying to pressure [President] Maduro now to step down, because they know that this migrant crisis is going to get even worse the more politically unstable the country gets. Countries like Colombia understand that Venezuela used to be a country that took their immigrants, especially during the darkest days of the paramilitaries and the guerrilla fighting, but at the same time, they understand they can’t take every Venezuelan that comes.
And not only that, because of this crisis that’s getting worse and worse, because of lack of medicine mainly, people are coming into these countries with diseases that should be controlled in Venezuela — diseases like diphtheria, malaria, tuberculosis have made a huge comeback in Venezuela. So if you’re a neighboring country like Brazil or Colombia, or a country like Ecuador or Peru, who are farther away but are also taking immigrants, this is a very scary situation that’s right on your doorstep.
So many lessons in those two brief paragraphs, which will remain ignored by those who most need to learn them.