Posted on 09/09/2018 10:23:55 PM PDT by El Flaco
What he did do, was audit ( sat in on ) a couple of night classes, did NOT do homework nor take exams.
He was also mentally deranged, from at least the age of 9 and long before his parents divorced.
I guess the objective of the story was saved for the last sentence.
“Black students reported lower rates across all outcomes versus white students.”
Only one in four?
In 1962, in what turned out to be an advanced, pre-med Biology course, our teacher told us “Look to the Left and Look to the Right, because next semester they won’t be there”. I wasn’t. Went into Geology and did a lot better.
However, out of my starting class, of probably well over 1,000-plus, we graded about 600 in 1966.
I saw friends and acquaintances drop out, change schools, or get hooked on drugs (may the little bastard have died from them). A few of them underwent personality changes and disappeared (a few came back with different schedules or at night).
Some of them were not ready for or even fit for college (they might have been better suited to technical schools or Junior Colleges (first), before going up.
That’s life. We made no excuses for any of our failures and just worked harder to have more successes.
We never heard of “snowflakes”, “save spaces”, “pussy hats”, “white privilege”, “black extremists”, or any of that type of crap. We studied, worked (while in college), and graduated from the campus to real life.
Today’s children are mentally ill, spoiled by a corrupted and inadequate liberal education (or none at all), a lack of working hard jobs when not in school, little or no physical exercise (the old gym classes), soft scoring teachers (oh the poor thing, someone hurt his feelings - I’ll give him an extra grade to help him overcome his feelings of inadequacy and tenderness), and a lack of backbone to be someone, not a “thing” with special privileges.
My team-mate, Jeff Hamm, our first All-American fencer in decades, graduated ROTC in 1965, was commissioned a 2nd Lt. shortly thereafter in the Army, and was killed in action in April 1967 near the Laotian border. He could have been a movie star he was so good-looking and a gentleman as well.
I haven’t met one lefty kid in years who I would allow to polish his boots. Even that would be a desecration of him and the others who served their country and were either killed or wounded, as well as shaken up by reality.
If the liberals want to suffer from self-inflicted mental illness, so be it. That means that more conservatives should become psychologists and psychiatrists. We’d have enough business to fund a nice lifestyle for us and our families (and help put our saner, best educated kids through college to become our nation’s next leaders instead of “snowflakes” who eventually melt in the sun instead of enjoying it).
I’m proud to have walked in Jeff’s boots to Nam as a journalist on our side. I won’t wear NIKES on my worst day.
I’d rather go barefooted.
Your new Democrat voters.
I challenged my children physically throughout their childhood. That is how you raise strong kids. I did the same mentally, and for the same reason. We all know how to raise mentally ill snowflakes. Normal people just don’t know why the globalist left would make that choice.
Probably because somewhere between a quarter and half of all American children are abused and/or neglected, and nobody wants to know about it because that can of worms is just too damn big to risk opening.
Thanks for this post, MadMax.
JoMa
+1!!
Only one in four are liberals? That right there explains why Hillary lost.
Being diagnosed with a “condition” can provide a competitive advantage for students: more time and private space for tests, helpers, relief from certain assignments. Among the elites, a caring parent might almost feel obligated to get his student a diagnosis, lest he face challenges from which his peers are excused.
The Wall Street Journal’s article on this research mentioned that the percentage of “ill” students is highest, up to one in three, at expensive, private, liberal arts universities.
You beat me to it! I was typing but had to go let the cat in.
no, its the teachings of Marxist ideology, radical political thought against a country they live in that wipes their a##es instead of real academic studies, a social justice agenda that feels every child should be in college even if we have to push them thru grade school and fudge their numbers to help
Earlier, I wrote, “It’s where fatherlessness and academic social leftism have taken us.” There’s the drug problem, too. With the flood of false information about marijuana, legalization, more social normalization and false information about the cause (blame on doctors, drug companies, etc.), marijuana use and adjunct drug problems are spreading like wildfire through young people.
It is because of a complete lack of mental health services. Disgraceful state of affairs.
“Adam Lanza did NOT “go to college; he didn’t even finish high school..he dropped out and was NOT homeschooled!
What he did do, was audit ( sat in on ) a couple of night classes, did NOT do homework nor take exams.
He was also mentally deranged, from at least the age of 9 and long before his parents divorced.”
AND his dad probably blamed his mom for Adam being deranged. His mom tried everything and sacrificed her life and her happiness to try to deal with him with NO help from the “mental health community.” There is NO way to get help for a mentally deranged son in this country and the families are out of their depth trying to deal with them. It is a national disgrace.
It would have been interesting to correlate the “madness” with academic major. (Yes, I know, associating the terms “academic” and “major” is rather silly given a good number of those majors.)
Just sayin’.
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