October 29, 2005

PRESUMABLY, "PRIVILEGE IS GOOD AND Y'ALL ARE HERE ON SUFFERANCE," WOULD NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE ANSWER? (via Ed Driscoll):

WSU Education Department studying 'litmus test' (E. Kirsten Peters, October 20, 2005, Associated Press)

Washington State University is reviewing its policies on evaluating the character of students in the teacher training program after a student alleged the College of Education was biased against conservatives.

Provost Robert Bates said Tuesday the matter is under review within the college, which is under fire for evaluating students in a way that makes personal political beliefs grounds for failure.

At issue is an evaluation form that asks if a student exhibits an understanding of the complexities of race, power, gender, class, sexual orientation and privilege in American society.


Even if I'd taken all my courses in the Orrin Judd Classroom at Colgate I'd never have passed one given this standard.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 29, 2005 3:56 PM
Comments

A student exhibiting such an understanding would not need to be a student. What they are reallly looking for is compatabilty with indoctrination.

Posted by: jdkelly at October 29, 2005 4:37 PM

You went to class?

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at October 29, 2005 5:46 PM

I still think the most astonishing thing in that article is this passage:

In an interview earlier this fall, [Dean Judy Mitchell] said she didn't know if conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia could pass the evaluation.

The controversy has drawn the attention of state Rep. Don Cox, R-Colfax, and state Sen. Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, who represent WSU.

"If a (Supreme Court) justice could conceivably not meet any institution's criteria for dispositions acceptable to the profession, the institution must change," said Cox, a former faculty member in the College of Education.

Well, yeah. Posted by: Ed Driscoll at October 29, 2005 5:48 PM

It's ain't known as Wazoo for nuttin'.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at October 29, 2005 7:24 PM

Meanwhile, I'm planning to set up a Matt Murphy Room at my old high school. It's a broom closet.

Posted by: Matt Murphy at October 30, 2005 3:27 AM
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