Spelling is a construct of the white patriarchy, and must therefore be ignored. Judging by recent adventures at the checkout counter, the same wokie criterion also applies to basic math.
Obviously you jest, but both those actually *are* arguments put forth explicitly by the Marxist academic radicals ā that both spelling, and mathematics (as taught currently), are "oppressive" because they do not account for "other ways of knowing".
There is an entire rabbit hole of loony far left academics arguing that 2+2 = 5, because [insert "other ways of knowing" ...aka b*llsh*t I just made up right now, because I can't win this in argument based on merit].
On one level it's riotously funny. But it becomes a whole lot less funny when they're indoctrinating millions of kids with this stuff, annually. We are heading for a future where bridges regularly collapse, because: Equity.
This is just disgusting. If it harms them then they are intellectually incapable. If it doesnāt harm them, then it is the leftās denigration and belief that they need these policies to prop them up.
It also harms students from PRC. No one owns anything in China so everything is everybody's. They come here to a university and do not get it. Being disciplined for plagiarism is a 'foreign' concept.
When I taught writing at a college--before I left bc mandates--many of the students (majority hispanic) had never been taught anything substantive about paraphrasing. Many had never read a whole book in the precious two years. Even after weeks of lessons and practicing, I was stunned at the amount of intentional plagiarism and cheating I encountered, and the amount of times I had to report kids.
What I found out though, was that the University (CA State one) did nothing. The kids got a talking-to. The only other 'punishment' was that I could give them a zero on the assignment (which is 59 points less than an F!). Many teachers got demoralized by this and did NOT report; others were fully woke-indoctrinated and went with the "but they never even had the training, poor things" route. Even though we were all required to give them the training. The "And how bad is plagiarism, really? Look at what the internet has done, you can't fight is anymore.... Don't we have other, more important battles to fight?"
I would later see kids I had confronted and reported on the Honor Roll and think, hmmmm.
"Anti-plagiarism policies harm Black and Latinx students"
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1734016989772026219
We knew it was coming š
Referencing is a patriarchal, oppressive construct!
Expecting people to do their own academic work is academic colonialism!
...something, something White Supremacy!
LOL.
Spelling is a construct of the white patriarchy, and must therefore be ignored. Judging by recent adventures at the checkout counter, the same wokie criterion also applies to basic math.
Obviously you jest, but both those actually *are* arguments put forth explicitly by the Marxist academic radicals ā that both spelling, and mathematics (as taught currently), are "oppressive" because they do not account for "other ways of knowing".
There is an entire rabbit hole of loony far left academics arguing that 2+2 = 5, because [insert "other ways of knowing" ...aka b*llsh*t I just made up right now, because I can't win this in argument based on merit].
On one level it's riotously funny. But it becomes a whole lot less funny when they're indoctrinating millions of kids with this stuff, annually. We are heading for a future where bridges regularly collapse, because: Equity.
:/
This is just disgusting. If it harms them then they are intellectually incapable. If it doesnāt harm them, then it is the leftās denigration and belief that they need these policies to prop them up.
A/K/A the soft bigotry of low expectations.
exactly. Couldnāt have said it better.
It also harms students from PRC. No one owns anything in China so everything is everybody's. They come here to a university and do not get it. Being disciplined for plagiarism is a 'foreign' concept.
When I taught writing at a college--before I left bc mandates--many of the students (majority hispanic) had never been taught anything substantive about paraphrasing. Many had never read a whole book in the precious two years. Even after weeks of lessons and practicing, I was stunned at the amount of intentional plagiarism and cheating I encountered, and the amount of times I had to report kids.
What I found out though, was that the University (CA State one) did nothing. The kids got a talking-to. The only other 'punishment' was that I could give them a zero on the assignment (which is 59 points less than an F!). Many teachers got demoralized by this and did NOT report; others were fully woke-indoctrinated and went with the "but they never even had the training, poor things" route. Even though we were all required to give them the training. The "And how bad is plagiarism, really? Look at what the internet has done, you can't fight is anymore.... Don't we have other, more important battles to fight?"
I would later see kids I had confronted and reported on the Honor Roll and think, hmmmm.
Without a doubt.