They Do Not Want To Help Smart Kids

**On the topic of social promotion ...
A widespread pandemic spreading like hardy encapsulated fungus spores that unfortunately can withstand all manner of logic.

Phenomenon in which kids are promoted from the current grade to the next even though they _failed_ the schoolwork.  This is done because the school district looks really bad having a 16-year-old in eighth grade.  Or, once again the kid feels really bad because they are surrounded by kids much, much younger than them.

A lot of them say, "how dare the smart kids think they should have more educational opportunities??!  They are already smart, they don’t need any help.  They will get by just fine.  Don’t worry about them.  They are already good enough."

What they really mean is, they think the smart kids should not be able to reach their full potential.  They should just be happy with being average.  “Well, they’re not failing!!  They are doing just fine.”

Therein lies the heart of the problem.  These people that are driving education standards down the drain in this society -- they want everyone to be content with simply “getting by.”  That’s it.  They don’t want for anyone to truly become accomplished.  Or to truly become winners.

They think, "oh they should be happy with just being where they are."  They say, "be happy with who you are."

But wait a minute.  What makes you think that just because I want to have accomplishments and get an education, that this somehow means I am not "happy with myself?"  What if I genuinely do want to improve myself and make my life better, and education has been established as a proven method towards that end?  What if I really do feel happy when I have a sense of accomplishment?

This is just such a weird idea being spread through popular culture like a disease.  This idea that wanting success, wanting accomplishments, wanting to achieve accolades in life, doing exemplary work, setting a goal and then achieving it -- are all somehow clues that a person is unhappy.

I think quite the opposite is true.  You must look at it this way.  If a person participates in a contest, if a person actively is competitive, what this means is that that person is living life.  That person is being active and energetic and is taking part in life.  This person is making positive things happen.

If a person participates in a competition of some sort and then demonstrates that they are the best, I think this shows extraordinary happiness.

a person might have natural, inherent skills and puts those skills to good use by enrolling in training and education.  This training and education earns the person some credentials.  Also, the training helps hone, refine, and sharpen the person's skills so that they may contribute positively to society.  Such as when a person has a natural dexterity for biology and healing, so they decide to go to medical school to become a doctor.  Or if a person has a natural inclination towards finding out how things work, they might major in engineering, so they may usher in the next generation of technological advancements.  This is all because they are very happy with who they are, and they want to become even better.  They want to improve themselves.  They want to be the best version of themselves.

It is such a counterintuitive, nonplussing idea that it took me this long to even write a coherent essay in rebuttal.

Patronization Apparently In General College Life

This is a continuation in reference to claims that women are not taken seriously in science classes.  I will be focusing on broader topics, including that of the overall student experience in higher education.

I see criticisms in news magazines all the time that declare that students that do distance learning or take courses at a local community college are somehow "missing out" on the essential experiences that traditional on-campus learning provides.

Supposedly, there are the experiences that higher education mongers go on and on about being so great.  There are the so-called experiences that college students will fondly remember with warm happy fuzzy memories for the rest of their lives.

There are the unforgettable moments of expanding your horizons that defenders of traditional four-year universities say is so much better than the option of people deciding to lead normal lives while taking courses.

About how teachers in college are sooooo much better, more knowledgeable, much more dedicated, much more invested and caring in their students' success than are high school teachers.

I have been taking classes at a traditional university in addition to classes at community college.  I can tell you that the above claims are utter garbage.

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I read an article recently in some sort of publication of modern college life.  This article was very revealing of the unflinching truth that women face on so-called "traditional" college campuses.  There is a very worrying trend -- a lot of male students are accusing feminist school of thought of being absolutely anti-creativity.

Erm, excuse me?  Feminism is "anti-creativity"?  What, pray tell, are the beautiful, artistic, inspired from the depths of the soul bits of creativity coming out of the mouths of the male students?  And what is this alleged feminist "oppression" of which the male college students claim to be self-proclaimed victims?

Guess what.  All it is, is that the feminist students would like the male students to come up with something other than sex and violence.

Erm, did the males not take high school English?  Sex and violence are not creativity.  These are the anti-theses of creativity. 

I am guessing feminists are saying this because genuine creativity requires some pondering and contemplation outside of easy knee-jerk stock hoards of sxe and violence.  With which I agree.

I suppose it's possible for an authored work to contain elements of that trash and yet still show gleaming signs of genuine creativity.  But if one truly does not possess the capability to create a written world without resorting to this unoriginal rubbish, then I would say one's creative faculties are limited.

college campus rapes.  alcohol-fueled date rapes.  binge drinking.  kegger fraternity parties with more sickening, infuriating behavior towards women.

Is this the sort of bullcrap they encourage young middle-class white kids to engage in on college campuses?  This sounds disturbingly depressingly like the attitude that the some of these stupid late night talk show hosts... exhibit.  That stupid smarmy craig kilborne with his round feminine cheeks.  Seriously, there is something unmistakably feminine about that ahole's bone structure.  This idiot's attitude smacks of the spoiled middle-class white frat boy that went to college just to get drunk, party all the time.  He probably really did only go to college because his parents are paying for all of it and he does not have to pay a penny himself.  He is a late-night talk show host and not a very good one, so chances are that he was a C-average student in some crap liberal arts major.

We cannot and should not let these white frat boys get away with the assertion that they are "taught" this at typical college campus in typical mcw culture.  to allow that so-called explanation is to let them avoid any responsibility for their own disgusting behavior.

These are the unforgettable memories that students are supposed to cherish for a lifetime??! 

Is this the "unforgettable experience" that the media keeps telling people they are missing out on if they choose to go to vocational technical school rather than the typical on-campus enrollment???

Is this what's supposed to be so damn great about the college experience that on-campus dorm life ensconces?

You know what?  If this is all that the so-called traditional (har, har) college experience of a bunch of unsupervised, buckwild youths can offer, then I am glad I chose not to go back to traditional college life.  I am glad I am attending a two-year technical college that offers an option to transfer several regulation-grade college courses.  I am glad I chose not to live on campus any more while I take classes at a university.