Reply to General admission bias in favor of male applicants

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "General admission bias in favor of male applicants"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what I did when they threw out the canon the year my son started high school. Instead of “Catcher in the Rye”, they substituted “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe,” a queer, coming-of-age novel set in El Paso. [b]They threw out Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hawthorne[/b] and other authors. Then they had trigger warnings in the syllabus. So I ended up hiring a female, Black PhD Literature candidate to tutor my son. [b]She was able to give him the perspective he needed to get good grades on his papers.[/b] Best thing I ever did.[/quote]

Outrageous.  Maybe we can all hire our own personal DEI coaches just to be able to function in this postmodern hellscape.[/quote]
I felt I was beating them at their own game.[/quote]

Simpler explanation, she knew how to read and write, and actually taught your DC something, but good for him.[/quote]

Who would you have hired to give him the correct perspective to write well about rich, morally corrupt people from the jazz age; poor Southerners and intellectually disabled people; Puritans and adulterers? (ie., the characters in Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Hawthorne works). I mean, it seems every bit of lit from the anon asks your child to relate to a group of people far removed from his experience, but you only have issues with queer folks from texas?[/quote]

Boys do not want to read about whining victims of any kind [i]at all[/i]. Boys want to read about overcoming a great challenge - and by great challenge they do NOT mean "someone said something mean that hurt my feelings".[/quote]

Don't speak for all boys, please. Most of the kids I know are not nearly as narrow in their views of what they want to read as their parents are and think their sons are.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics