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Home Front: Culture Wars
Call It a Ponzi Scheme
2020-04-11
CJ via Instapundit
[CityJournal] As American unemployment mounted by the millions in March and April, the dance of the college diversity deans kept up its usual brisk pace. On April 1, Harvard University announced that its acting associate dean for inclusion and belonging was moving on to Denison University. But the Harvard associate deanship will not be vacant for long. On May 1, the current head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus will step into the Harvard position, to direct the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion team within the Dean of Students Office; the Office of BGLTQ Student Life; the Office of Diversity Education and Support; the College’s Title IX Office; the Women’s Center; and the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.
Everyone knows large, centrally planned consolidated school districts are the answer.
Elsewhere, campus diversocrats enjoyed similarly enviable mobility while the rest of the country was shutting down. The vice president for inclusion and diversity at George Mason University will become chief diversity officer at the University of South Carolina at Columbia on June 15. The former occupant of the South Carolina position decamped to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 15 to serve as its community and equity officer. On March 1, a former associate vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Iowa became associate vice president for inclusive excellence at Georgia Southern University. The first diversity, equity, and inclusion librarian at the University of Florida assumed her position in February.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#24  I guess I have been fortunate to see exceptions to those rules.

How do we know that our society in a lot of trouble? Because morons go to college & prosper thereby.


That, I'm totally in agreement with.

Interestingly, morons who go into Vocational-Technical College tend to get themselves hurt before graduating, and hopefully nobody else.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-04-11 20:33  

#23  Then there is the opposite model the English aristocracy where inbreeding seems to trend to diminished the possibility of 'genius'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-11 20:21  

#22  Can do something runs head first into Should do something. For example women can be fighter pilots but should they do so ? You lose the home culture drivers .
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163   2020-04-11 18:20  

#21  Let me amend that.
How do we know that our society in a lot of trouble? Because morons go to college & prosper thereby.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-11 17:56  

#20  No Shi Tzu can't become a service dog & and an idiot can't benefit from college degree - unless she goes into politics.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-11 16:53  

#19  The short answer is both play a contributing factor.

Take for instance, the concept of a Service Dog. Not that Shitsu couldn't be a service dog, but do we not see more German Shepherds? Conversely, a German Shepherd must go to a school to become a Service Dog.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-04-11 16:38  

#18  #17 Both achieved through selective breeding.
Among the Jews richest merchants were happy to marry their daughters to "genius" scholars from dirt-poor background.
With Chinese anyone could take scholar exams. These who succeeded joined the civil service and had dozens of wives.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-11 16:03  

#17  May I point out g(r)om two distinct 'cultures', Chinese (to include social dissemination to its neighbors) and Hebrews that have hundreds if not thousands of years of promoting education may well through social selection created a 'genetic' stock upon which such success is rewarded.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-11 15:55  

#16  Man, that picture of the derelict school building, I know it's standard gummint architecture, but boy do I remember seeing a lot like that back in PeeAye.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-11 14:00  

#15  will not debate g
must not debate g
must run up hill before noon
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-11 11:39  

#14  ^Nonsense, culture depends on genes. If it wasn't, all the adopted children would be similar to their parents.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-11 11:37  

#13  Let's use the verboten term, culture.

Books, reading, cultural pursuits esp. musical training, also memorization of poetry, lines from plays, and famous quotations.

Hint: in California, children of impoverished immigrants from E. Europe and E. Asia outperform middle- and upper-middle class "under-represented minorities." 100% due to the culture of the home.
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-11 11:28  

#12  ^^^Lets use the verbotten term "Genetics".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-11 11:19  

#11  ... the culture of the home is by far the biggest driver of educational outcomes If we would simply accept that iron law

The federal government runs two school systems, Department of Defense (overseas) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (reservations). One over performs the average, the other under performs the average. It's not about funding. It's about home environment.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-11 11:06  

#10  Most people can't hack the higher order thinking and abstract reasoning required for real college work. Among his many idiotic notions, Zero's push to get every American kid into college was surely one of the most foolish
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-11 09:54  

#9  /\ Behold a massive truth in sarc !
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-11 09:49  

#8  ... the culture of the home is by far the biggest driver of educational outcomes If we would simply accept that iron law

"We" can't, because it means accepting "can't make silk purses from sows' ears"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-11 09:47  

#7  Distance learning exposes the truth that our educationists dare not acknowledge: the culture of the home is by far the biggest driver of educational outcomes.

If we would simply accept that iron law, we could then move on to accept a two-track system whereby the vast majority -- say, 80% -- are moved off of the college prep track by the age of 14 or 15 and into vocational schooling that leads to a well-paid, well-respected and absolutely necessary trade.

And the remaining 20% would be freed from busywork and BS virtue-signaling activities involving "diversity" and lefty volunteerism that detract from actual studies and that pimp their college applications to appease the BLT-BIGMAQ Diversity 'n' Inclusion Commissars in the Admissions office.

Which means, maybe, if we're lucky, we can halt the diversity shitheads' latest quest, to destroy STEM excellence in this country...
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-11 09:44  

#6  ...ah, yes.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-11 08:44  

#5  It's only a matter of time before the NEA and the massive educational bureaucracy will mount an open assault against home-based computer learning.

Assistant superintendents for lacrosse and pelota will head up the effort.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-11 08:31  

#4  Our schools closed for the year. The teachers are complaining that they don't have enough time to grade all the homework!
However, found out my 4th grade homeschooler is doing some work that my 6th grade public schooler is doing!
Posted by: Gomez Hapsburg1959   2020-04-11 08:18  

#3  Computer learning be hard. If you have no desire for meaningful employment, why waste time with on-line classes. Not unlike most gummit programs, gummit mandated school attendance has been overcome by events.

Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-11 07:50  

#2  (a) Grom Jr is one of the ones not participating - I got him into Khan's Academy instead.
(b) IMO, all of the sins detailed in the article could've been forgiven, if they'd managed to produce some competent graduates.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-11 07:50  

#1  I read yesterday that it seems 47% of public school youts are not participating in online classes at all. Whuttasurprise...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-11 07:38  

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