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Missing the “Experience”

26 Monday Oct 2020

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Some get an education, others an experience. Or, they used to. Now, in Hoaxlandia, all bets are off for the poor college freshmen.

It’s a major life milestone, the first time many U.S. teens have ever been on their own. Even in normal times, freshman year in college can be a jumbled mix of anticipation, uncertainty and emotional highs and lows.

In these hardly normal times, when the quintessential college experience exists only in catalogs, freshmen are being challenged like never before.

Amid pandemic restrictions aimed at keeping students safe and healthy, colleges are scrambling to help them adjust. But many are struggling.

Social distancing requirements, mask mandates and daily temperature checks. Quarantine and isolation. Online learning glitches. Campus Black Lives Matter protests. Anxiety over whether to join partiers or hole up in dorm rooms or at home to stay safe.

Yes! Stay safe and stay home. Let them keep their hoaxes, protests, indoctrination, idiotic mandates, and especially, all of the worthless debt. Corona may be the best thing that ever happened to education.

NYU, Done With You

17 Saturday Oct 2020

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Seriously, American colleges and universities are done.

At NYU, a journalism propaganda class and professor are subject to propaganda for discussing propaganda.

On Sept. 20, after a class discussion of the case for universal masking as defense against transmission of SARS-COV-2 (in which discussion she did not participate), a student took to Twitter to express her fury that Prof. Miller had brought up the randomized, controlled tests—all of those so far conducted on the subject—finding that masks and ventilators are ineffective at preventing such transmission, because the COVID-19 virions are too small for such expedients to block them. Prof. Miller urged the students to read those studies, as well as others that purport to show the opposite, with due attention to the scientific reviews thereof, and possible financial links between the researchers conducting them, and such interests as Big Pharma and the Gates Foundation. Prof. Miller followed up by providing the links to the former studies (not easily found on Google, though they have all appeared in reputable medical journals), and other materials, including a video of a debate on the subject.

Of course, the school sided with the Twit-head. The truth has no place in Amerikan higher academia, certainly not in the journalism department. Associate with this idiocy at your own risk.

Avoid American Colleges

15 Thursday Oct 2020

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Almost all of them (4,000ish) are worthless.

The stories are becoming tedious at this point. Today, it’s a self-described racist ruining a Linguistics department and #takemathback(to the stone ages):

In the latest sign that the mind of U.S. academia has been hijacked by the left, a professor from the University of California-Santa Barbara described herself “a white American” who is, therefore “by definition racist.”

In a webinar lecture entitled, “Undoing White Supremacy in the Language Disciplines,” Mary Bucholtz, Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California-Santa Barbara, broke the news to America’s majority white population that white supremacy “is a system that White people have built in order to oppress everyone else.”

Read the whole pathetic thing and then read PCR’s hilarious take on the matter. If you are a young American contemplating college, the seriously reconsider. For a guide to the very few decent schools, consult the ACTA A-list. Be mindful that the criteria are academically-based; schools may have other structural and/or cultural problems; I know three of the “As” do. Again, I recommend Thomas More of NH and Magdalen College, also of NH. (One will note a distinct lack of Hoax adherence at those two). For other options and/or for graduate school, then look to Europe, especially Eastern Europe. Consult the “Polish Option” and similar academic potential in GET OUT!

Tread on Thee

12 Monday Oct 2020

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I’ve been quietly warning Asians in Amerika I know that, after the Heritage Americans are gone, they will be the next stand-in targets. Another example:

A New York judge ruled Wednesday that Fordham University student Austin Tong’s two Instagram posts, which depicted him holding an AR-15 and a tribute to slain officer David Dorn, constituted harassment and threats.

“The court finds that the timing, and context of Tong’s Instagram posts justify the two foregoing inferences that Dean [of students] [Keith] Eldredge drew about Tong’s intent to harass and threaten his fellow students via his Instagram posts because of their opposing views regarding the BLM movement,” Appellate Term, First Department Justice Carol Edmead ruled.

Tong posted a picture on June 3 commemorating David Dorn, a retired black police officer killed during the riots in St. Louis. He captioned the photo “Y’all a bunch of hypocrites.”

A worn, 240-year-old slogan, a Chinese stand-in, a dead black policeman, and a communist indoctrination center = “racism.” There are lessons to learn here, but who likes learning? Certainly no one at any Amerikan college. Ain’t diversity grand?! PS: y’all may not be next – more like concurrent.

A Farce Either Way

21 Monday Sep 2020

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You may look at the CoroaHoax as a real pandemic and a real problem. If so, then you’re probably upset that US colleges, some of them, have kind of returned to what passed for normal. They’re, honestly, playing football at the expense of the kids’ health and that of all the relatives waiting to get infected at Thanksgiving. If you’re intelligent, you’re probably upset about the sickness theater infecting these schools. Education, already in the backseat, has been placed in the trunk, behind the Corona Kabuki, etc. Either way, the masks are off the fraud of the system.

Read the Bloomberg story. Then consider all the lack of learning, the critical race BS, the massive debts, and more (or less). What is the point?

 

More Education Shifting

05 Saturday Sep 2020

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A follow-up(s) on the earlier ed story:

Catholic schools, many of them – or, some of them, are in trouble and some are closing. This is in keeping with the trend reported in the other story. It could also have something to do with the way the churches were attacked by the hoax shutdowns. If your child’s private school closes, do not use the public alternative. That’s when homeschooling really comes into play.

And, again, the colleges are in real trouble. LRC asks what we can do about it? He’s got some great ideas, of course. My answer might be: cheer.

“Ideology and Diversity tempered by Corruption”

24 Monday Aug 2020

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That’s the American university. That quote, from Ron Unz, appeared in this Larry Romanoff article from last November that I must have overlooked.

The quality of American education, as we will see, is far lower than the world has been led to believe, and the quality in China is in many cases much superior to that in the US. Americans might care to ask why it is that Chinese elementary or high school students moving to the US are often promoted by one or two grades. The reason is that they know so much more than their American counterparts they would suffer terminal boredom if forced to remain at their prior grade level. If we refer to the PISA tests, Shanghai’s math scores were 119 above the OECD average, or the equivalent of nearly three years of schooling, with reading and science exceeding the OECD average by about 1.5 years of schooling. And in some cases, the American students were behind the OECD average by approximately the same number of years as the Chinese were ahead.

In the reading, I had a few minor quibbles about something. I gave those up, finding in general, exactly what I’ve been seeing and commenting on for years. It’s a great primer on higher “education” in the exceptional land of the free. I found it in this Romanoff article, today, about all things “exceptional” in the USofA.

I’m sure all this will impove after the election!

Performance Prediction is Racist

13 Thursday Aug 2020

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As is any inherent ability, expectation, sanity, and anything, everything else. California colleges drop the (effective, useful, and admittedly not biased) SAT.

The empirical evidence clearly shows that the SAT is not biased, such that SAT scores are a valid predictor of college success regardless of your demographic background. In fact, the strength of the relationship between SAT scores and college performance appears to be getting stronger in recent years, whereas the strength of the relationship between high school GPA and college performance is getting weaker.

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Based on these results (and more), the special task force recommended that the UC continue to use the SAT in the admissions process.

But then, on May 21, 2020, the University of California Regents released a statement. They announced their decision to drop the SAT requirement for all applicants to all UC schools. {snip}

I mean, why bother to qualify students anymore? Everyone deserves to go to college and pick up the six-figures worth of usury, a hangover, and little else. In the future, employers would be better served to administer IQ tests to prospective employees instead of looking at meaningless credentials. Oh, wait, Griggs. Never mind. Just enjoy the ride, I guess.

Higher Education Loses a Leader

24 Friday Jul 2020

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Mike Adams was one of the few right-wingers who actively, unstoppably resisted the hellish rot in the colleges. Aside from being an effective (cigar-smoking, deer-hunting) teacher and an ardent reporter of the truth, he used his tenured position to harass the enemy mercilessly. That is why I suspect, admittedly without much evidence, foul play in his untimely death.

According to the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office, Mike Adams was found dead at his residence today.

Deputies responded to a wellness check at Adams’ home address and found him deceased. NHCSO is investigating the death, but has not released any additional information, and could not confirm cause of death or if foul play was suspected.

The longtime professor of criminology and sociology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) was set to retire next week as part of a $500,000 settlement.

With Mike, suicide is out of the question, unless it was an Epstein version. Young as he was, natural causes are a possibility. However, if this was a hit or other form of homicide, then we need to … use our imaginations.

Rest in Peace, Professor.

All The Wrong Reasons

23 Thursday Jul 2020

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Orange Man and millions of semi-conscious Amerikans are eager to ship their children back to the concentration camps. Yet the masses sense something is wrong. A poll, as reported by the ASSociated press, finds a majority are not comfortable with reopenings this fall.

Patty Kasbek, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, said she desperately wants her two children, ages 5 and 10, to return to school. After months at home, the family is stressed and anxious. But with the virus surging, she doesn’t see a safe way to reopen.

“School shouldn’t even be considered right now,” said Kasbek, 40. “We need to get this under control before we play with the virus. It’s just too dangerous to put our kids out there like guinea pigs.”

Her local school district is planning to reopen with new safety measures, she said, but she’s opting to enroll her children in a virtual school. She isn’t as worried about her own health but fears that reopening schools could spread the virus to others.

The virus. Virtual school is an infinitely better alternative than forcing children into the company of thugs, pedophiles, and luciferian communists. But, since they’re at home, why not homeschool them? The probable answer is something like “conformity.”

As for the universities, or the sad proxies thereof, Lew Rockwell ponders if they are finished? Dear Lord, let’s hope so.

Ending this on an optimistic note: Anthony Esolen’s weekly column focuses on the discovery of tradition, culture, and knowledge – something alien to the schools. Those failed institutions are indeed infected with a virus. Socially-distance yourselves from it.