25 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”

  1. A bit silly Menzoid. The youngsters’ confusion as to the question is overshadowed by your continual failure to pronounce “woman” and its plural “women” properly.

  2. Why waste time teaching history when we can just cut right to the progressive narrative indoctrination. This is the result.

  3. Ha, Canadian university students are no more educated than the ones Jesse Watters of FoxNews Watters World interviews. Bet they know how to slip on a con*om.
    Sad, about something as important as the vote. Then again…?

  4. As a Ryerson alumnus — journalism, no less! — I found this to be hilarious.
    Now, would you like fries with that?

  5. All regret over a wasted education aside, I’ve always wondered about the etymology of the term “suffrage”. The Latin origins of the word do not seem to be clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrage#Etymology
    I always thought it derived from “suffering”, as in suffering through a long campaign cycle or suffering through the candidates’ lies, or suffering with the consequences.
    I realise, of course, that I am making the mistake of assuming that the word is derived from some other word because it sounds similar. I really should invest in a good dictionary to sort out such mistakes, but I am too niggardly to do so.
    Uh oh.

  6. Cheap shot.
    These girls are hearing “suffering”, not “suffrage.
    Most may not know the meaning of ” suffrage”, as the issue was put to bed long before they were born.
    Ask ’em if women should be allowed to vote.
    Sadly, impoverished vocabulary among college students isn’t unusual.

  7. as the issue was put to bed long before they were born
    Put to bed? Seriously?
    I am pretty sure that this is a sexist microaggression.
    I just can’t even.

  8. Well, it’s like, women have been sufferaging for far too long, and that’s why we’ve got Justin Trudeau in to fix things….
    Given his support of sex separation in mosques it’s not too far of a leap.

  9. Well then, you’ve answered your own question, haven’t you ? Our enlightened Universities are right to no longer teach HIS-tory … the narrative of the patriarchy …the patriarchal society that has controlled the narrative for thousands of years. It is time for womyn everywhere to throw off the shackles of their would-be overlords and start creating their own narrative ! [sarc. off]. The narrative of ignorance.

  10. They probably think suffrage means suffering.
    but either way it shows how the voting age should be raised.
    to 40.

  11. I was taken back ,but onky for a moment,by a comment by a woman and her suffering pajama boy husband the other day. She said when something wasn’t operating correctly for us, that must have been invented by a man, I said statistically a good chance since 95 % on all patents are held by men. Pajama husband seemed incredulous. I pointed at a tire and said that patent is definitely held by a man, Charles Dunlop, inventor of the pneumatic tire, and another pointing at the truck, Henry Ford, and another pointing at the street light, Edison, graham bell at my cell phone. Left her feeling surrounded by why Y.?His ride home must have been a long one

  12. When you pointed to your cell phone, you should have mentioned Hedy Lamarr and her patent for her spread spectrum work.
    But then again, every time your acquaintance’s cell phone went down to one bar reception she’d have to blame a woman.
    So never mind.

  13. When I started teaching in the late 1980s, I had students fresh out of high school who couldn’t do basic algebra or trigonometry. It got worse as I continued in my job and there were times when I wondered if I should teach them how to tie their shoelaces.

  14. I think the Indian girl has pageant experience.
    Brave enough to ask a question…..
    Formulating a well parsed answer…
    Defines what she was responding to….
    Very pretty….
    Stamp of approval in hand…….
    And…. collectivism.
    Frak!

  15. She would have heard it as Hedley Lamarr! She was redfaced as it was, so was PJ hubby. I think he spent a lot of time staring at the ceiling during sex, maybe even texting.

  16. I know the type and I don’t think he sees the ceiling during sex. Face down in the pillow he is, for sure.

  17. My sister-in-law would agree, as she quite often talks about many, not just a few, of the high school grad students coming into her college sociology classes with the reading and writing skills at a grade eight level.

  18. Lame. It seems as though none of these women have bad intentions…but the “Menzoid” obviously does.

  20. “and there were times when I wondered if I should teach them how to tie their shoelaces.”
    1984 – David Letterman wears a suit made of Velcro brand fasteners and jumps from a trampoline into a wall covered in the product during an interview with the company’s USA director of industrial sales.
    After that, teaching them to tie their shoelaces would have been a waste of time as they could have fastened them with Velcro.

  22. Back in 1986 I sat in the front of a truck for a long drive between 2 university profs who started a passionate discussion on how dumb recent graduates were and how hopeless the level of education had become since they themselves were in school back in the 1960s.
    As a recent graduate myself and not wanting to be left out of the conversation I offered that the level of competence of the recent graduates could have more to do with the poor level of instruction they had received from current profs and that possibly their profs in the 1960s were better teachers. This was my own better teachers, better students theory.
    Turns out I was wrong (I was told).

  23. I will admit that some of my colleagues weren’t much brighter than the students and, so, they set the levels of expectation correspondingly lower.
    As a result, I often found that those same colleagues did a poor job in giving the students the necessary background for any following courses. I frequently had to spend a significant portion of my lecture time teaching them material that they should have known when they started.
    One reason was the dreaded student evaluations on which one’s job depended, if one was working under a contract. Another was that the administrators expected a minimum class average in the grades, regardless of the quality of the students.
    The quality of the incoming students was a perpetual problem for us. We often voiced our concerns to the senior administration which, after listening to us, nodded sympathetically, hemmed and hawed, and said they would pass those on to the school system and the government. I doubt they ever did that, but if they did, their efforts were ineffective.
    Besides, the administration had a vested interest in keeping the quality low. Since many of the students would have needed to upgrade their backgrounds, accepting any who were properly prepared would have meant that they wouldn’t have to take any remedial courses. If they didn’t take those courses, then there wouldn’t be–wait for it–any extra $$$ coming in.
    Oh, and we weren’t supposed to teach the students too well. They just needed to know enough to bluff their way into a job. If they knew too much or are too prepared when they graduated, they wouldn’t need to come back to upgrade their skills, which means less $$$ for the institutions.
    You guessed it, folks. One reason the educational system is in such dreadful shape is because there are too many parties in the system who profit from it being broken. Therefore, there’s no financial incentive to fix it.

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