Apparently kids are really fucking stupid now
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Wait until you find out what the high schools and colleges are graduating.
I already know, I observed it in action, in person, in my collegiate English classes.
I could kick out a 3 page paper in 15 minutes, and pretty much the rest of the class would take days.
I'd say that roughly half the current college student population should not be there, they are not smart enough. This won't change, though, not as long as employers are forced to use a college degree as a proxy for an intelligence test, which Griggs vs Duke Power made such a liability that no employer uses them anymore.
I didn't know about that case, so I looked it up.
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
That ruling essentially means we are REQUIRED to hire the lowest common denominator.
Finding out how much of the last 50 years has been deliberately engineered to oppress smart white guys the same way loud minorities pretend they're being oppressed will make anybody with any sense sick to their stomach.
I remember that in mine. First year and I’d gone to cheap community college for transfer credit. They have us proofread each others papers, which is stupid in its own right, but the paper I’m handed, what the hell. I could have marked 100 extremely basic level grammatical and spelling errors.
I learned very quickly in that class just write all my papers the night before in an hour and that was all the effort they ever got. I was there to get a course credit for a paper credential, not to learn.
Did they force you to believe in the WoodenDoorLoCost?
12 years ago I was in my junior year of college and I had a guy who could only read at a fourth grade level be selected to read something aloud in our class.
That was certainly a moment.