In football, practice isn't what counts, performance counts. It should be the same in education:
Maitland Jones Jr., a chemistry professor at New York University who also taught for four decades at Princeton, was fired in August after undergraduate students circulated a petition complaining that his course was too difficult.
Dozens of the college students, many of them aspiring doctors, signed on to the petition in the spring.
"We are very concerned about our scores, and find that they are not an accurate reflection of the time and effort put into this class," the petition read, according to the New York Times.
These are the kinds of snowflakes you get when everyone gets a participation trophy growing up.
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Based on the article, where the professor was supported by a grad student, the complainers were also not taking advantage of the extra help available
Time and effort are what are important in a doctor's visit, rather than a correct diagnosis?
Maleducated morons...
These are the post-lockdown, zoom-generation students. They've never learned how to read a textbook, never learned--or forgot--how to take notes in class, never learned--or forgot--how to ask a question in class, never learned--or forgot--how to seriously study for exams, etc.
High schools consciously chose to lower standards, destroy requirements, and pass all kids regardless of actual achievement for the last two years. This trend also pre-dates covid, but was made infinitely worse by zoom-school.
Kids crashing out of college, or their dream pathway in college, is the price these kids, and all of society, will be paying for decades.
Erik Haneshek has studied the long-term economic impacts on a kid's life if they had 2 years in a row of school with a bad teacher. The cost was a huge hit to lifetime earnings.
We just condemned a generation of students to having *no* teachers for the better part of a year, and in places like California, two years. The consequences will be with those students for their lives.
And all because of nothing. Covid harms kids less than it does adults, and less than traditional flu strains. Schools have not been shown to be places of spread. (Much of in-school transmission was from sports, not classrooms.)
Adults, the media, and our politicians panicked. Instead of "we have nothing to fear but fear itself", it was all fear all the time. We are one of the few countries where the consequences for our kids was completely ignored.
We have not yet begun to digest the long-term disaster that were school lockdowns.
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