Faculty workshops across the ever-fruitier plain are
instructing teachers and professors not to grade based upon merit.
You read that correctly. Idaho State University, for example, is holding an
event titled “Inclusive Teaching Means Inclusive Grading, Too.” The seminar is
part of the BUILD certificate program, which stands for Boise State Uniting for
Inclusion and Leadership in Diversity. Apparently they forgot the ‘S.’ And you
can’t spell Boise State without the BS.
Oddly
enough, a previously held University of Tennessee-Knoxville faculty workshop
had the exact same name. Hey, I guess that is inclusive! UTK’s event was
designed to “engage
instructors in conversations and activities designed to foreground diversity
and inclusion in considerations of assessment and grading practices.” How about
“foregrounding” diversity and inclusion of thought?
The
University of Michigan also held an event with a nearly identical title. A
website touting the event stated that attending teachers would “be asked to
review their own practices” on grading. But, if students are not graded on
merit, they must either not be graded at all or be graded in a highly
subjective manner. If the correctness and quality of a paper or test no longer
matter, what does? Length, color of the ink or text? No, it will be the color
of one’s skin, and the student’s sexual orientation and socioeconomic status.
That is the truth. That is what the tolerant diversity-lovers want. Equality of
outcome-- or reverse discrimination. There will be no tolerance for, say, a
white male doing better than anyone else. Period. Do campus Republicans
automatically flunk while transgender socialists reflexively get awarded high
grades? Once grading on merit is dispensed with, there is no incentive to
do…anything. The outcome must essentially be predetermined.
American
University held a symposium in which faculty were taught “how to assess writing
without judging its quality.” It was titled “Grading Ain’t Just Grading” and
was held to help teachers rethink “writing assessment ecologies toward
antiracist ends.” The forum cautioned that “the practices of grading writing”
maintained “white language supremacy.”
So good writing is racist.
Good music, too? Correct answers to
test questions. Civilized behavior. Decent attire. Wow. What does that say
about progressives? To those who know history, it shows that they haven’t
changed at all. Ironic, isn’t it? Democrats still believe that blacks are
inferior and minorities can’t compete.
Speaking of which, here is the start
of the Gettysburg Address:
“Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Good writing.
This is the start of the Gettysburg
Address had Abraham Lincoln attended college today:
"Like, a long time ago some dudes came
here and started, like, a new country, and um…said people should be free and
also that we are all, like, equal and shit.”
Not so good writing. I don’t care what
BUILD says.
If we continue to reward sloth, bad
behavior, and incompetence while disincentivizing their opposites, the country
will not…long endure.
But, hey, it’ll be a lot easier for
me. So, like, don’t be gradin’ or judgin’ my ritin’ anymore. I don’t need no
bleepin’ white soupremacists sayin’ my work ain’t as good as ne one else’s,
that’s for dam shur! My words be fine as f**k!
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