Blake Neff on destroying children’s futures in the name of “social justice”:
While the traits listed [being rigorous and punctual, speaking grammatical English] may simply be regarded as positive traits for success in the modern world, Dr Heather Hackman described them as traits chosen and emphasised to favour whites to the detriment of non-white groups, who are forced to assimilate ‘white’ traits such as good discipline and goal orientation or else be left behind. Hackman’s solution, then, is to train teachers to move away from all these aspects of ‘white privilege’ in education. She routinely touted the benefits of collective assessments (measuring student learning at the class level instead of determining whether each student knows the material), as well as eliminating all school grades entirely.
In other words socialismize the classroom. That should work out really well.
By now, anyone who isn’t a segregationist is an idiot.
Hell, I was never punctual (although I will admit I was a grammar Nazi and completely odious about rigour) as a child. And I did okay.
And I’m pretty sure there are plenty of really good artists, musicians, etc that don’t give a crap about grammatical English.
So why is that, in any sense, “whiteness?”
Showing up and being on time is how some groups of people get so much more constructively accomplished than other groups. Goes to winning competitions.
You don’t want to be punctual? Do you think I was born to wait on you, loser?
So, you finally showed up to the work party. Lets coordinate as a group.
Too bad we can’t be more productive quicker because of the lack of clear communication between members of our group.
Punctuality and clear concise communication facilitate productivity, problem identification/solving and accomplishment by and within a group.
Don’t be the weak link, be a winner.
So punctuality and good communication are specifically white cultural attributes?
I’m shocked!
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Is showing up on time and working hard, the result or cause of white supremacy, discuss.
So how would Dr. Heather Hackman have been selected for a doctorate if she had been “collectively assessed” with her classmates and was never given “grades”?
I think that the title of Dr. Is to freely handed out these days.
Heather Hackman received her doctorate in Social Justice Education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Social Justice is a fallacy to begin with. You either have justice or you don’t. Social has nothing to do with it. Made up titles for people who are failures in the real world.
We need a cleansing and I volunteer to work the lever and keep the trap door well maintained.
This Hackman bint is a disgusting racist – setting NAMs up for utter failure in life. I suppose a moronic electorate is more apt to vote for Obamaphones, Obamacare and Obamalove.
Please note that “non-whites” never seems to include Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc. For doing so destroys all of the theories of SJWs so they just pretend that such people don’t exist.
Reading this article just confirms my family’s belief that public education will be only for the poor people within the next 20 years. Any parent with a lick of sense will either be home schooling or sending their children to private schools. With all the bullying at school (past week at a Nova Scotia school), people who cannot speak English and teachers who are determined to “dumb down” the curriculum, there does not seem to be any other option.
Well, when Dr Heather shows up in the operating room, with her permission I’d be more than happy to test her theories.
“Hey, I be turnin’ on that ventilator when I feel like it, b*&ch.” “You be operatin’, I’m gonna answer dis phone call.” “I gives da dose o’ drugs I be feelin’ like givin — you don’t be wakin’ up, dat be yo problem.” No more “white privilege” behaviour here, no sireeee.
Seriously though, it really reinforces the concepts that first, education needs to be privatized with a voucher system for the kids. The most important determinant of children reaching their potential in school is the attitude of their parents. Those whose parents really don’t care for the most part are not going to be high achievers anyway. There’s no point dragging down the remainder of the class while the teacher is preoccupied with the miscreants’ bad behaviour. The second concept is that, as ever, the end game of liberalism is law of the jungle. The thugs are given free rein. The most violent thug dominates the environment. The weak are intimidated and controlled by the thugs.
Aim low. What a great role model I would be for my kids and grandkids. This ‘Dr.’ Hackman is the perfect example that just because you know lots of stuff doesn’t mean you have wisdom. And she is also a perfect example that ‘you can’t fix stupid’.
She’s an angry ugly bull dike. Hard to take her seriously. But the tards will.
Whenever I read stuff like this, I’m glad I quit my teaching position at a certain post-secondary institution.
My sole job was to make my students “successful”, whatever that was supposed to mean.
To make that possible, I was “encouraged” to allow such free-range, freestyle learning. In other words, if I didn’t, my career prospects there would be severely limited, if you get my drift.
I was required to cater to the four official “learning” styles, a doctrine that most educators have long rejected and has been discredited. Educational theorists, educational philosophers, and educational administrators still cling to that tomfoolery.
I had to create what was referred to as a “safe learning environment”, which included allowing them to call me whatever they felt “comfortable” with. Having them address me as “Dr. B” (because I did have a Ph. D.) or “Sir” were considered intimidating. (When I was a student, I *never* called my professors by their first name. I considered doing so a sign of disrespect.)
In the end, the emphasis was more on the process and rituals and making the kiddies happy rather than the conveying of knowledge, wisdom, and discipline.
What also disturbed me was how the administration kowtowed to the students. Things really went into the crapper there when it adopted the doctrine of “student as customer” and I, as an educator, was required to “meet or exceed” their “needs and expectations”. In other words, the students dictated what needed to be taught and how it should be taught, as well as what grade they deserved.
The absurdities of the system became overwhelming. One day, I looked at my investment portfolio, figured out that I had the minimum amount to set out on my own, and asked myself why I was still there. A few days later, I submitted my resignation.
That was early in the previous decade. I don’t miss any of it.
And they can’t see western civilization collapsing around them….
One thing I learned as an instructor was to take the parents out back, and lay a good whooping on them. The parents where the worst influence on the kids. According to the parents, their little darlings could do no wrong. Never mind that they could not add 1 plus 1. And that was the parents.
I think they are setting it seems up for global socialism. Individual achievement is to be discouraged It’s all about the group. Good not to think for yourself. This should work ok if most people can be made into serfs.
It was the Persians that first pursued education, for the common man, for Military reasons
It was the Industrial revolution that is mainly responsible for todays “Education”. Education provided a disciplined class of experts necessary to maintain the industrial wealth industry.
The most important function of an Engineer is that of a “disciplined” approach to his or her area of science. Helter-Skelter science, like AGW, lacks identifiable discipline.
If “discipline” is no longer possible or necessary… Why bother with any Education…( Graduating fools creates a dysfunctional society). The Computer Machines will do all the math & critical thinking for future Humans.
JMHO
Thank you for making my point. If you want to speak of discipline, punctuality, and diligence … my personal experience suggests that “the yellow man/woman” is champion of these values. You might also want to include the ” very dark brown” Hindu man/woman. Oh, sure … the racist education cabal will simply say these groups are just white lackeys … dancing to whiteys tune. And since precision in language and meaning is also a “white construct” … so there is no need to relabel “white privilege” as “Yellowish, Burnt sienna, Ivory privilege”. Hardly makes for a snappy, communist slogan.
Why bother forcing one of these kids to stay in school,when he obviously doesn’t want to be there, won’t learn anything,and will disrupt those who are there to get whatever passes for an education these days?
Give the kid a “special” certificate which enables him to legally leave school and go about his life. Who gives a f***, their parents don’t,they don’t, why should anyone else?
Yes,that means they will be headed for a life of poverty,unless they hook up with a gang and join the drug trade, but that’s undoubtedly where most of them are headed anyway.So they’ll make big money for a few years then die young, what did you say the downside was,again?
When my kids were in school, I noticed some of this type of social disruption, although nothing like that described in the linked articles, but I also noticed the Asian kids quietly worked their butts off, got a good education,went into good professions, while for the most part ignoring the social drama that goes on in every school.
I think the social justice crowd ignores the Asians for a very good reason; they completely destroy the myth of the “victim” class.
Scratch a liberal, find someone who desperately wants a serf class.
Yup. Parents should be kept as far away as possible. The students are adults and should not only act like they are but held to the same level of responsibility and accountability.
About 20 years ago, my department head at the time called me into his office. He had finished a telephone conversation with the father of one of my students. Apparently, the kid said that he was “failing”. I was mystified at that because he was acing my course with an average of around 85%, something which most people would consider to be quite respectable.
Eventually, the head conceded that things weren’t as severe as the father had led him to believe. Still, what galled me was that the head listened to the *father* and acted on that. What was the matter with the kid? Couldn’t he speak for himself?
I thought that post-secondary institutions abandoned the policy of in loco parentis over 50 years ago. Apparently, at my institution, it was still in effect, at least as far as that department head was concerned.
The matter of personal responsibility on the part of my students was made clear to me during my senior undergraduate year. I had 3 job offers to consider (yup, it was a *long* time ago when such things still happened), two of which were far away from where my parents lived. I felt guilty about considering those 2 as I really did want to move out on my own.
I asked a counsellor about it at my alma mater. I remember his words very well and those helped me make up my mind: “Your parents need to grow up, too.” I chose the job that was the furthest away from them.
I wish that many of my students had the strength of character to make decisions of similar magnitude.
Dumbing Down..Down to the famous 76 I.Q.
Every time white liberals or non-whites demand we lower the bar for non-whites, what they are too stupid to realize is that they are telling us non-whites are inferior to whites.
“they are telling us non-whites are inferior to whites.”
Yes, they are knowingly telling us that.
What they are also knowingly telling us is that the reason for that inferiority is White Privilege.
Really it’s all about their narrative and their perspective.
Don’t argue with them because facts don’t matter and you can’t win.
Tell them, “Yes, White culture is superior, and if they want the people from inferior cultures to stop being losers then they have to adopt White culture.”
It isn’t about race, it’s about culture. If the inferior cultures want to keep losing, then all they have to do is keep doing the same thing and fail to adapt.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
~Albert Einstein
pfft.
I faced this in 1957 when I DARED to peek ahead in those soul destroying dick and jane collections of printed vomit, desperate for something other than:
See Spot.
See Spot run.
Run, Spot.
Run.
for my efforts I got clobbered by the ‘teacher’ and refused the opportunity to demonstrate my blistering pace of learning how to read.
I remember equally vivid my horror at the thought in my 6 y.o. head that that was all there was to the much touted skill. . . . .
the more things change, the more they stays . . . . .
You made it through “Dick and Jane” too, eh? I had to deal with it when I was in Grade 1 a few years later.
To be honest, I was bored for much of elementary school. It wasn’t until Grade 10 that I began showing some promise as, by then, school had finally become interesting for me. I graduated with grades that won me some scholarships and I continued with that by going to university.
Some of my earlier teachers figured that I was much smarter than I was letting on. My poor performance was possibly a result of not being intellectually challenged plus I tended to let my mind wander in class. I was often thinking about things that interested me rather than what was being written on the blackboard.
Yet another reason why distributed and online learning will become the next big disruption.