tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post8456008128634474703..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: More Students Deserve to Graduate? Who Says? A Rant from Magnus.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-87648828499476957832013-05-24T17:04:05.968-04:002013-05-24T17:04:05.968-04:00I'm not sure about the critics being snobs.
I...I'm not sure about the critics being snobs.<br /><br />Instead, I'm reminded of people who, because I was nearly a straight-A student in Grade 12, alleged I was--you guessed it--a "teacher's pet". Then there was the allegation that there only a certain numbers of As given out each year in a course and the reason my accusers didn't have many, if at any at all, was Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36024065592854048322013-05-24T14:13:59.150-04:002013-05-24T14:13:59.150-04:00Oftentimes, when you rally look at those sorts of ...Oftentimes, when you rally look at those sorts of critics, you find they are actually the snobs who were born to privilege. They often feel guilty and are blinded by their own privilege.<br /><br />Lots of well-meaning older white men have this problem. The flip-side of patriarchy that has a tendency to reproduce itself (to reference the post from earlier this week).The_Mythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621186404597424842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-75811216278368679012013-05-24T13:42:45.854-04:002013-05-24T13:42:45.854-04:00Point number 3 needs to be emphasized.
I've he...Point number 3 needs to be emphasized.<br />I've heard too many administrators addressing groups of students and telling them they can be anything they want to be.Iyrrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06272150097841691708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-79466381814622731502013-05-24T11:14:50.451-04:002013-05-24T11:14:50.451-04:00I said much the same thing when I started my teach...I said much the same thing when I started my teaching job over 20 years ago and was promptly branded an elitist and a snob.<br /><br />Some people had the impression that I was born to privilege. I wasn't. I was an immigrant kid born into the working class and English wasn't my mother tongue.<br /><br />My education wasn't handed to me. I worked for it. I couldn't understand Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com