Liberal Educators Are Mad...

[seer]

Mad I say!

Graduation ceremonies might still be going on if Dublin schools had asked all of its valedictorians to speak.

There were 222 of them.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...grads-tie.html

[One Bad Pig]

Come now. You mustn't hurt the feelings of the darlings who might come in second place.

[Bill the Cat]

Why do our leftists here typically refrain from threads like this?

[seer]

Come now. You mustn't hurt the feelings of the darlings who might come in second place.

That is the problem, if every one is exceptional then no one is exceptional. And that is why many much poorer countries like Vietnam are beating us in math and the sciences. And why what my mother learned, only graduating the eight grade, would rival what many college students know today.

[seer]

Why do our leftists here typically refrain from threads like this?

Truth hurts?

[Cow Poke]

Don't reward excellence!

Pull the top achievers down, or falsely push everybody else up to their level.

My brother, former Marine, and now a Pastor near a Marine Base in North Carolina (yeah, that one), tells of the "dummying down" of the qualifications for all of the elite forces for the various branches of the military. His congregation is mostly made up of Marine families. He says the guys who talk to him about "what it's like now" in the Corps are pretty much demoralized with regards to the once proud special units.

It's bad enough that this is in academia, but - sheesh - our military!

[Sam]

Why do our leftists here typically refrain from threads like this?

Probably because it's inconsequential outrage-bait ...

[Bill the Cat]

Probably because it's inconsequential outrage-bait ...

It's another example of the hyper-worship of "equality" at the expense of the truly exceptional. And it isn't inconsequential.

[Cow Poke]

Probably because it's inconsequential outrage-bait ...

We don't outrage - that's a liberal pinko commie feelie kinda thing.

[Juvenal]

Why do our leftists here typically refrain from threads like this?

Take your pick:

We don't have that many leftists.
It's a seer thread, and he's nuts.
It's a policy they don't support anyway.

And my personal favorite:

Valedictorian in high school doesn't mean squat without a decent ACT or SAT to go with it.

[Juvenal]

And it isn't inconsequential.

[Cerealman]

Take your pick:

We don't have that many leftists.
It's a seer thread, and he's nuts.
It's a policy they don't support anyway.

And my personal favorite:

Valedictorian in high school doesn't mean squat without a decent ACT or SAT to go with it.

And an ACT/SAT doesn't mean squat unless you got the grades to back them up.
You can do bad on these tests and still have good grades.

[Cow Poke]

Valedictorian in high school doesn't mean squat without a decent ACT or SAT to go with it.

Not even if it comes with a fancy certificate in a gold frame?

[Bill the Cat]

I'm glad you find the pursuit of mediocrity humorous. Hopefully you aren't contributing to it with your students...

[Spartacus]

I'm glad you find the pursuit of mediocrity humorous. Hopefully you aren't contributing to it with your students...

So first you complain that leftists don't bother themselves with seer's threads, then say they indulge mediocrity too much? The irony is not lost on me.