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Professor: Students Held Sit-In After Complaining Grammar And Punctuation Corrections Were Racist
nation.foxnews.com ^ | Daily Bruin

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: academia; cursive; learning; raciss; racist; teaching; writing
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To: ilovesarah2012

Martin’s girlfriend would like this school is she can talk and write black.


21 posted on 11/23/2013 9:06:51 AM PST by citizen (There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
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To: Catmom
These are Ed school students.

They’re already the dumbest on any campus.

It is said that the widest street in the world is West 120th St. in New York City, which divides Columbia Teachers College from the rest of the Columbia University campus.

22 posted on 11/23/2013 9:09:21 AM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: ladyjane

Actually dissertation proposals.

FWIW, I would have always assumed that a dissertation proposal with any grammar or spelling errors would be automatically rejected.


23 posted on 11/23/2013 9:09:59 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: ilovesarah2012
I know my grammar isn't perfect. In my open concept experimental school education (This is the foundation for Common Core) I was never taught grammar, spelling and punctuation, ever. We focused more on Literature, recycling and global cooling. No rote memory just process and feelings. However, since I have a proper understanding of theory, rhetoric and logic, that helped me quite a bit in College.

Anyway, these people are the result of a piss poor education system


24 posted on 11/23/2013 9:10:22 AM PST by darkwing104 (Do not take my word for it, these are my opinions...Do your own Homework)
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To: max americana; Tax-chick
Even the Ivy League dimwits couldn’t even know the difference between “lose” and “loose”.

Shocking! What prevented them?

BTW, TC, you'll love this entire thread!

25 posted on 11/23/2013 9:11:15 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Jack Hammer

They should have learned correct grammar and punctuation in elementary school. I am still shocked by the writing and spelling of some college graduates. I also don’t understand why otherwise intelligent people have so much trouble with pronouns! Drives me crazy.


26 posted on 11/23/2013 9:12:07 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ladyjane
In the old days the poor students would just try to plagiarize their dissertations.

Well, they're not all as strategeric as Slow Joe Biden.

27 posted on 11/23/2013 9:12:18 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: darkwing104

My mother was the original grammar nazi. She made me learn the parts of speech when I was four. I always got As in English and writing because of her. Thanks, mom.


28 posted on 11/23/2013 9:13:49 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Fiji Hill

They demand to be stupid.


29 posted on 11/23/2013 9:19:21 AM PST by onedoug
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To: max americana

But their self-esteem was really strong and that’s what counts isn’t it?


30 posted on 11/23/2013 9:20:06 AM PST by hometoroost
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To: ilovesarah2012

And these college graduates wonder why they do not get hired.

The contractor I work with speaks Spanish as a second language, just as I do-but we won’t hire even a laborer for who isn’t an American citizen and who can’t speak proper, conversational English, period, no exceptions. Apparently, some college grads from California would not get hired as even unskilled labor where I work...


31 posted on 11/23/2013 9:21:34 AM PST by Texan5 (" You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Joe Marine 76
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32 posted on 11/23/2013 9:23:04 AM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: Texan5

The leftists want to bring american into the gutter instead of bringing those in the gutter up so they can function in society.


33 posted on 11/23/2013 9:23:35 AM PST by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Sadly, most students graduating from high schools are not prepared to do college work. This information came from a president of a local university.

Colleges, not only junior colleges, are having to provide 'dumb-bell' courses at the students expense to bring them up to speed so they can do 'what used to be college entry level work'.

34 posted on 11/23/2013 9:23:51 AM PST by Parmy
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To: ilovesarah2012

I grew up in the late 40’s and early 50’s. My teachers in public school and in parochial school were all very good back then.

I remember the diagramming of sentences in grade school. I had the most difficulty with commas, and the difference between dependent clauses and independent clauses.


35 posted on 11/23/2013 9:29:25 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: ilovesarah2012

Bookmark


36 posted on 11/23/2013 9:30:14 AM PST by aquila48
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To: spawn44
The leftists want to bring american into the gutter instead of bringing those in the gutter up so they can function in society.

That is an unfair characterization. They want to change society so that gutter behavior is functional.

37 posted on 11/23/2013 9:31:31 AM PST by jdege
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To: max americana
When the school tries it’s best to hire...

Objective case. Should be "its."

Oh, wait. That was racist.

Sorry, man.

38 posted on 11/23/2013 9:33:56 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

LOL!


39 posted on 11/23/2013 9:36:45 AM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
... students in the demonstration described grammar and spelling corrections he made on their dissertation proposals as a form of "micro-aggression."

That's just weird.

40 posted on 11/23/2013 9:36:47 AM PST by Tax-chick (It's like everyone has Attention Deficit Disorder, except for me.)
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