Have you heard the latest from Ivy League universities? The students are whining about not having time enough to do homework and keep up with their studies because they are spending most of their time being Social Justice Warriors. I guess they haven’t figgered out that being SJWs is not why they are attending school. And just think of the poor people trying to get degrees in gender, LGBT, or black studies wasting all of their time and energy protesting about gender, LGBT, or black problems. It ain’t fair!
How would you like to be paying over $60K a year for your kid to go to an Ivy League university and find out the kid is not attending classes because he/she is being an SJW? Of course, if the parents are SJWs themselves, they would blame the school for making it hard on their precious little snowflake. I mean, what’s more important, getting an education or protesting for social justice? What’s wrong with these professors loading down the SJWs with so much homework that they can’t keep up with their studies?
Well, horse shit. With all the highly relevant media coverage about Hitler’s dick, somehow the trials and tribulations of those poor, abused li’l Space Space inhabitants did not even make a blip on my radar.
Actually, it’s not a whole lot different from when I first went to college back in the late 50s, particularly at the Ivy League schools.
Most girls who went to college in those days went for 1 of about 4 reasons:
to become a teacher (about 25%)
to become a nurse (about 10%)
to find a husband (about 40%)
because Mommy & Daddy said so (all others)
Most guys who went to college were there for about 1 of 4 reasons:
to actually learn something (math, science, business) (about 10%)
to cultivate life-long friendships (good ol’ boy network) (about 30%)
to play sports and party (about 40%)
because Mommy and Daddy said so (all others)
Most kids coming out of high school today aren’t nearly as adult as many were back in the 40s and 50s when ordinary kids HAD to work and learned valuable skills and discipline long before they were college age.
When I went back to finish my MA in the 80s, I was surprised at how many kids were TOTally unprepared in the fundamentals of readin, writin, and ‘rithmetic for post-secondary work. Amazing how many had to take upgrade (remedial) classes to be eligible for basic math, science, and English classes at the freshman level.
Even more astonishing was how many got all the way to their senior year without having a definite major, or having had one, changed it.
Also, I remember that the average course load per semester back in the 50s was 15 or 16 hours, with many taking 18. Today 12 hours is considered a full load, even by G.I. Bill requirements, and what once was a 4-year investment in the future has become a 5-year extended adolescence.
While teaching at the university, I saw that the really good kids, the ones who actually learned something from high school and honestly did the work to get their meaningful degrees in math or science, were just as good as the ones back in the 50s.
But although there may be just as many really good ones today, their numbers are a MUCH smaller percentage of the whole than 50 or 60 years ago. Today’s brainiacs can do things their grandparents’ generation could only dream of, but there are precious few of them in comparison to the no-loads and parasites who take classes that prepare them for little more than wearing silly uniforms and asking, “You want fries with that?”
“what once was a 4-year investment in the future has become a 5-year extended adolescence.”
Hey, Ron, for every year you extend a college student’s stay at the school, the more professors and teaching assistants you need. Creates more jobs in the classrooms and an even greater number of support drones. I’d guess that for every couple of hundred new students, you need another Administrative Assistant to the Adjudicative Office of Diversity (All Hail Diversity) and Gender and Frou-frou Studies Manager, who functions under the umbrella of the LGBT-BLT-XYZ Office of Thought Control. Remember, while we’re all equal, somebody has to decide who is more equal.
Seems to me that when I was in school, all one needed to teach in lots of California public schools was a BA or BS in almost anything. Now, I don’t think one can enter into the field with anything less than 6 years, and they have to engage in “continuing education” to learn the latest “sure-to-fail” techniques in mind numbing and intellect stifling.
I wonder how many of the SJW parents were the same ones who blamed the teacher whenever Johnny got a bad grade.
That would be a number approaching 100%. BTW, for many of the kids, parent is singular.
Businesses who are looking for good material should look at the failure rate for the school. If 100% of the kids pass, most likely 99% of them are not worth hiring.
My son is working full time and going to school part time. From what he tells me, a large percentage of these kids get culture shock the first day on the job.
He did, but his was, Only eight hours today? and a little time for lunch?
Another beef for me are the useless degrees, gender studies, racial studies, liar err lawyer.
To steal a line from a 2004 post of Denny’s, how many deco art history professors does one country need?
https://youtu.be/syBoET78bAw
Pay particular attention beginning at the 17 minute mark.
It’s the pron.
It’d be fun to be a fly on the wall watching as the snowflake with his / her BA degree is fired from their first job. “You mean, you mean that I actually must WORK?!?!” ” That’s even worse than a microagression. I’m gonna report you to the thought police”
“Ain’t no way I’m gonna shake salt on them damn fries, that’s someone else’s job”
Who the fuck would hire one of these special snowflakes. Can you imagine the accommodations you’d have to make to enable them to make it through a workday, and I have no idea how they’d handle a pissed customer/client. These days, my employer checks where you went to school/references, etc., but more importantly all the social media they can find on you; all that to basically to determine if you’re on the right side of the aisle, because that’s the only way you’re getting hired.
I have worked with numerous Ivy League grads over the years. In my opinion, most are totally worthless.
They can generally be separated into two camps: “dumb as a stump” and “entitled.”
The “dumb as a stump” crowd generally consist of legacies, nouveau riche and minorities. They are typified by individuals such as Al Gore, George W. Bush, Chelsea Clinton, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. Their parents are willing and able to pay out the ass to buy their offspring a degree.
The “entitled” crowd are smart as hell but generally too lazy to draw flies. They know they are brilliant because they have been told that all of their lives and they can ace an ability test. But they have been generally kept separate from the masses (in many cases out of touch with reality), and have not had to work hard to obtain their sheepskins. They tend to do well in a job that requires stellar contacts (e.g. real estate, insurance, investment banking and merchant banking), and rather poorly at almost everything else.
During my days as a business executive and as a consultant, a resume from an Ivy League grad usually quickly found itself in the round bin. Big 10 and Big 12 grads on the other hand, particularly those majoring in technical subjects with high class standing, were gold. I hired as many of those as I could and every one of them earned a positive return on investment.
Any reason why those SJW couldn’t get class credit for all their protesting? I mean what sort of productive work will they be doing with their degrees? They won’t be producing the next great widget; they are all ready doing what their degrees are training them to do…..
Steve