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Too far?
By who’s standards did they go too far?
Was any person hurt?
And, not in the feels, who was physically hurt?
“That’s so gross! How could you?”
Fucking selfish babies.
If “civil” discourse doesn’t yield a genuine call to action for change, we are alllllll about getting your attention any way we can.
Sorry, we aren’t sorry if we offend you.
We’d love to calmly and rationally speak with you when addressing important issues, but if you aren’t respectful of our sensibilities, we may not be respectful of yours.
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Read the full article by Bradford Betz HERE.
Washington and Lee University is coming under scrutiny for offering a course on “How to Overthrow the State,” though the school’s president says the course has been “sensationalized” by the media.
Officially titled “Writing Seminar for First-Years,” the course places students “at the head of a popular revolutionary movement aiming to overthrow a sitting government and forge a better society.”
“How will you attain power? How will you communicate with the masses? ¬†How do you plan on improving the lives of the people? ¬†How will you deal with the past?” the description states. “From Frantz Fanon to Che Guevara to Mohandas Gandhi and others, we explore examples of revolutionary thought and action from across the Global South,‚Äù reads the¬†course description¬†on WLU‚Äôs website.
Students who take the course will produce a “Manifesto, drafting a white paper that critically analyzes a particular issue” and “write a persuasive essay on rewriting history and confronting memory.”
When laptops hit mainstream education 20 years ago, teachers flipped the fuck out because they felt they would lose control of their classroom, and teaching would be impossible.
Today, most educators have never been trained to manage classes online.
Absolutely, ZERO educators have been trained to manage classes online during a pandemic.
Wow, the balls it takes for schools to demand full tuition when they are clearly unable to provide a comparable educational experience during COVID.
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You want students engaged in learning that helps them prepare for their future?
It really isn’t that complicated.
Students should be paid for their education.
Starting in the 9th grade, students ought to spend no more than 75% of their school time on campus. They should spend 25% of their school time working onsite at a local business.
By the time the student reaches the 12th grade, they should spend no more than 25% of their school time on campus. They should spend 75%, or more, of their school time working and learning business practices, work expectations, and professional soft skills.
When students graduate, they have a better appreciation of how they ought to prepare for a career, and they might have saved some money to help them take their next professional steps.
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This approach reminds us of the bake sales schools have in order to make up for a lack of funding.
They feed us amazing, sugary sweets, but they generate a fraction of a fraction of the money needed to make sure our students and teachers have the resources needed for a quality education.
Like we always ask, who benefits the most from a well-educated population?
Our never-changing answer: Business.
Business ought to pay an overwhelming majority, if not 100%, of our entire educational system.
Why would they not want to make this level of investment in its future workforce?
Why wouldn’t the government, at all levels, provide colossal tax breaks to encourage business to fund education, at all levels?
Because that would be weird.
Fucking communist, is what it would be.
I mean, shit, think about it.
Corporations in the U.S. made around $2 trillion in profits last year.
The President requested $64 billion for education in the 2020 national budget.
We know $64 billion is less than 3.5% of the profits companies earned from its “educated” workforce, and they could give 10% and wouldn’t really feel any pain.
We know the $64 billion slated for education could be shifted to assist another area of need, like mental health (NIMH 2020 Budget $41 billion).
But all that pinko shit ain’t happen’n.
We’re going keep things just the way they are, fuck you very much.
