Colleges used to be tasked with preparing their students for
adulthood and steeling them for the ‘real world.’ Exposing students to various
ideas and thought was deemed of primary importance so that they would be versed
enough to legitimately form their own opinions and outlook. Debate and rhetoric
were the order of the day- indeed part of the core curriculum.
Today?
Not so much.
Donald
Trump may have shocked the world with his victory in the American presidential election,
but it is certain that his success sent vast numbers of college students and
professors into deranged hysterics. How did these stately old institutions of
higher learning handle their charges mental and emotional breakdowns? They
capitulated- and coddled the craven and cowering class. They didn’t just
tolerate the tantrums of those stunned, repulsed, and frightened by exposure to
views other their own, they helped them in their transition back to…kindergarten.
The
University of Michigan actually provided its traumatized tykes with coloring
books and Play-Doh in an attempt to
calm them. The University of Kansas has therapy dogs standing by for those
unglued by Trump’s triumph. Tufts University offered arts and crafts sessions
to its devastated kiddies. Cornell
University, an Ivy League school founded in 1865, held a campus-wide “cry-in,”
with school officials handing out hot chocolate and facial tissues. They should be handing out the Kleenex to the
parents of the college’s young scholars, since many are shelling out most or
all of the $31,000-$54,000 a year that it costs to have their offspring attend
this pricey pre-school!
At
campuses around the nation, professors canceled classes and/or exams, either
because students asked them to do so or because they were too distraught to
teach. When classes resume they can throw their hands up in the air with their
students and say, “So big…you are sooo big!”
What
would I say to the delicate
debutantes and fragile frat-boys?
“The
wheels on the bus are falling off♪
Falling
off
Falling
off
The
wheels on the bus are falling off♫
And you
guys are clowns!”
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