Posted on 11/23/2013 8:44:31 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
Edited on 11/23/2013 8:46:39 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Current and former students in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies expressed their support for professor emeritus Val Rust following a demonstration in one of his graduate classes last Thursday.
Student demonstrators alleged that there is a
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He must have made the corrections in cursive. The dumbing down of students has succeeded all the way up to Graduate School.
These are Ed school students.
They’re already the dumbest on any campus.
Cursive = White ebonics
“Wassup wit dat? So, idat watt it be like to be in gradjit skool an collage? Word.”
if their dum than your dum to
Criticizing ebonics is racis.
1. I would bet that the "Graduate School of Education & Information Studies" is already one of the most left-wing, pro-"diversity" parts of UCLA, and that is saying something. So that the demonstration occurs here is instructive.
2. Language evolves like a lot of social institutions, so I don't mind acknowledging new usage patterns, such as this one. But every term I teach a first-year writing-intensive course, and about 20% of my students simply cannot write an intelligent paragraph. One reads it and has no idea what was meant. The problems do not just involve grammatical rules, although those are legion, but seemingly randomly chosen words and word sequences. It simply has to be read to be believed, and I was shocked when I first started teaching that one could graduate high school writing like that. Some of these graduate students probably fall into this category. I am irritated to have to be the bearer of the bad news that some people just cannot use the English language well enough to get a college degree, but have to because those are the students I am presented with.
Students in an Education Department protesting grammar and punctuation corrections. I kept hoping to see this was satire but it’s real life. Higher education has become a parody of itself.
Nah, it’s UCLA. It’s the armpit of Socal unis. When the school tries it’s best to hire traitorous commie toad Janut Nuttylitano to one of the school’s posts, you know campus is rife with the “hate whitey lick obama’s ass” crowd.
Yo. Dissin’ Ebonics be racis.
You should have been there months ago when we were interviewing for an international marketing position. Even the Ivy League dimwits couldn’t even know the difference between “lose” and “loose”.
It is becoming more and more like ‘Idiocrocy’ every day!
In the old days the poor students would just try to plagiarize their dissertations.
Parading around with a placard somewhere and chanting mindless slogans is a lot easier then sitting down and learning correct grammar and punctuation.
Probably used a red pen. Oh the horror.
And taxpayers are paying for their education through Pell grants and education loans that will probably never be repaid.
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