{"id":41612,"date":"2017-12-01T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=41612"},"modified":"2017-12-01T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:51:14","slug":"social-justice-warriormath-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/social-justice-warriormath-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"The social justice warrior\/Math teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The recent kerfluffle with the math EDUCATION professor claiming mathematics is now \u201cwhite privilege\u201d reminds me I\u2019ve been amiss in discussion of the insanity of Education departments.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s no secret that Education\u00a0classes have minimal requirements and ridiculously easy grading<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Education students face easier coursework than do their peers in other departments, according to the study, and they\u2019re more likely to graduate with honors.<\/em><\/p>\n

When I was at a fake school, every year some clown with a Ph.D. in Education would come and lecture me (and all the other faculty) for 2 hours or more on how to be a better teacher. Since it was for all faculty, the advice was of no relevance to any particular course, so nothing useful like a good mnemonic for remembering a formula.<\/p>\n

No, it was always idiotic advice, like \u201cassign more papers in the math classes (because it\u2019s easier for students to plagiarize)\u201d and \u201cassign more group projects (because it\u2019s easier for a student to slack and get a passing grade because his group did his work for him)\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t expect students to know material from other courses (because they\u2019re cheating through those courses and thus don\u2019t know anything)\u201d among other ridiculous tidbits. Ok, they didn\u2019t include my parenthetical additions, but it there was always a subtext, approved by the admin at the school, that we needed to have no integrity whatsoever, at any point. Admin led by example in this regard, I admit, and I was forever being punished for having integrity.<\/p>\n

In any event, these Educationists primarily were about degrading education, about ripping off and hurting kids. The worst, absolute\u00a0worst<\/em>\u00a0kind of educationist was the Math Education professor. Oh how I hated how they\u2019d strut around, often calling themselves \u201cmath professor\u201d while lecturing on teaching ideas which had nothing to do with math.<\/p>\n

Being at a legit school now, I\u2019m not subjected to nearly so much indoctrination, but I suspect things have gotten worse. Consider this snippet from a want ad for a\u00a0professor of Elementary Math Education<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We seek candidates who share our commitment to educational equity, to\u00a0social justice<\/strong>,<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, wait just a second here. I understand requirements for experience, for research, for appropriate degrees but\u2026now you must adhere to a self-destructive and hypocritical belief system to be a professor?<\/p>\n

How embarrassing!<\/p>\n

Even more shamefully, this is for a position in Texas. In much of the country, the \u201csocial justice warrior\u201d is held in as much disdain as a Klansman, for espousing bigoted views filled with hatred. In Texas, however, it wouldn\u2019t surprise me to learn that there is an official hunting season for social justice warriors.<\/p>\n

But this Texas university is actively recruiting social justice warriors in their Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Isn\u2019t that a funny name for a department? How did it happen that the minor topic of \u201cCurriculum and Instruction\u201d managed to get its own department? Can any of my gentle readers think of any time where something in this topic actually mattered to anyone?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been in higher education my whole life, teaching, attending classes, and reviewing curriculum\u2026absolutely nothing has changed from a general standpoint. I had no idea such a department could exist, because I\u2019ve never seen any relevant research. I assure the gentle reader, there are no big questions in \u201cCurriculum\u201d worthy of doctorate research, much less a whole department.<\/p>\n

Now, one topic can branch out into its own department. Statistics, for example, used to be a topic in mathematics. But, seeing as it\u2019s used everywhere (mostly badly, mostly for evil, but bear with me), I can see how it managed to become popular enough to justify its own department\u2014the wide applications of topic meant there was incredible demand for specialists.<\/p>\n

But, outside of university, how much application is there for Curriculum and Instruction? Seeing as we\u2019re perpetually mandating all classes be alike, all tests be standardized, there should be\u00a0reduced<\/em>\u00a0need for this topic.<\/p>\n

I digress, my point for today is how now Social Justice Warrior is a prerequisite for a job, just as important for being a professor as having a relevant degree.<\/p>\n

Higher education is riddled with deep problems right now. Falling enrollments\u00a0 due to demographics are cutting into revenues, revenues which are already being soaked up by a ludicrously top-heavy administrative caste–the bureaucratic structure of most universities today resembles a helium balloon with a monofilament string hanging down below it, with faculty being the string. Revenues are further being soaked up by overhead costs on excessive buildings on campus, palaces to hold those highly paid administrators.<\/p>\n

Endless riots are further eroding the future student base, and a heavy reputation for indoctrination wears even further away. At this point, it seems clear higher education should consider doing things to make people think universities are welcoming and good places to be.<\/p>\n

And yet, somehow, this university in Texas, and they\u2019re hardly alone, is actively seeking to hire more professors following a belief system that the sane people in this country want nothing to do with. Much like with the NFL (and Hillary, for that matter), it appears our \u201cleaders\u201d running higher education are under the premise that insulting people will make them more likely to continue to follow along a path that clearly leads to destruction.<\/p>\n

I sure wish I could get the leadership to listen to me even a little and turn away from their path of assured annihilation. Higher education has been doing great evil this last score years, but I still feel there are some good things here worth saving.<\/p>\n

I reckon I\u2019m alone, however.<\/p>\n

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