If there is any coherent message that can be gleaned from the Occupy Wall Street “movement”, it is that our system of public and higher education can now be declared a total and complete failure. The fact that there exists no accountability at any level of our Education-Industrial Complex is perfectly clear for all to see. It seems fair to say that responsibility for this can be laid squarely at the feet of the teacher’s unions and their members who have perpetuated an economic structure in education and a curricular agenda that has been allowed to defy gravity for 40 years.
If you aren’t able to wrap your mind around the pernicious influence of the teacher’s unions you need only to watch the utterly disheartening and yet essential film “Waiting for Superman”. Spoiler Alert: Superman is not coming. Suffice it to say that every time you hear education activists talk about spending money on children, they are lying through their teeth. That money is for teachers; make no mistake. Not only that, but they have consistently and effectively resisted any mechanism that is designed to improve teacher performance through adherence to absurdities like tenure, and by prohibiting merit pay structures through collective bargaining. Put simply, they exist to ensure that government jobs once obtained are inviolate without any accounting for performance or competency. That is not to say that there are no great teachers, just that even those teachers are influenced over time when it becomes apparent that their pay is completely detached from their effort and they can’t promote by any means other than seniority or advanced degrees.
So a child that makes it through that system without dropping out shows up on a college campus totally unprepared for collegiate level academics finds him/herself in a psych, sociology, history, or literature class where their glaring deficiencies aren’t as much of a hindrance as they would be in Chemistry, Calculus, or Physics. Waiting for them there is a tenured hack with the full panoply of liberal/socialist agenda items infused into their course who sees his mission as one of evangelism rather than education. The classes are easy and even inspiring as the ponytailed professor shovels decades old, discredited, leftist socio-racial-economic dogma onto the student’s plates and rewards them for vomiting it back to him with no thought or concern whether those ideas have any practical application whatsoever.
Upon graduation, the student is uneducated, believes things about economics that are false, tens of thousands of dollars in debt and completely unqualified for gainful employment anywhere to include flipping burgers. This dreck is what has been spit out onto the streets of New York and elsewhere. Few if any young people are fully prepared when they first strike out on their own, and the shock and struggle of those early years is what makes or breaks them in the future. With this crop however, they come out of the education womb as fully formed degenerates, their professors having foreseen the challenges and rather than preparing them to face them, they prepared them with excuses for why they cannot be faced.
OWS= Non Workers of the world unite.
Suppose you are a teacher.
Suppose you have a Ph. D.
Suppose you are conservative.
Good luck on getting a University job.
These jobs are held in reserve for socialists.
Don’t believe in the Universal Socialist Utopia? Fuggedaboutit.
You cannot believe in individual responsibility, capitalism, success through effort, or the Constitution and get hired these days. To teach in a University = to indoctrinate. King Putt has now announced that even Steve Jobs got where he got because he had Government help.
Yeah.
Take that.
Just think what Jobs could have done without Government meddling!
We would all own Apple computers.
Funny. Fahrenheit 911 was all the rage among the left despite being pure dishonest agit-prop.
Waiting for Superman…not so much.
What’s different? The first one bashed a Republican.
The second one is an unintentionally scathing indictment of a liberal dominated and controlled system.
Hmmmmmm. I’m stumped. (sarcasm)
BA degree in BS from Ying-Yang University. Here instead of a bell curve we have the pear curve where all students score on the right side of the pear, no one gets an “F” with pear curve test scoring. “You want to be a scientist? Good put on this white lab coat and you’re a scientist.” “Degrees from Grande Ole Ying-Yang, worth every dollar in tuition, look great on walls with that indecipherable cryptic language no one can translate writen on the parched sheepskin.”
If you want a university degree, there is always at least one program that will not flunk you because of your stupidity. When I attended university, before there were electric lights, teaching was a safety net for those who couldn’t hack an academic course of study. If teaching proved too be overly taxing, there were still other fields of study that would protect and reward the feeble minded. Unfortunately, that system seems to have devolved until a degree means even less.
Sorry folks, that’s the truth and you know it as well as I do.
Accept the Socialist pablum and you will always be welcome in university studies.
With Socialists, you have the choice of swallowing their bitter swill or drowning in the swill.
Democrats know the math.
An uneducated student equals a welfare recipient, which equals a voter for whichever party promises them more money for not working, which sums up the democratic party. Less educated means more votes for democrats.
OWS!
The ”party” is over!
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/wall_street_protestors_will_tents_4IyAa1fLfXamvvwkvSbHbM#ixzz1agmlnV7I