The first time I heard the words remedial and college in the same sentence I thought it was for comic effect. This sort of thing happens a lot when you live in California, a state where public universities have been offering remedial help to college students for years, as it continues to live down to its image as the home of dumb ideas and misplaced priorities. What other state would allow farmers to go broke and fields to go fallow just to save some glorified guppies from the extinction they so richly deserve? We're "full up" with crazy out here.
Logan Jenkins, a worthy local scribe with the San Diego Union-Tribune, recently related in his always edifying column news of a new campaign underway at Cal State San Marcos. The eggheads at that seat of higher learning have concocted a program that asks students to wear a button encouraging classmates to SMILE at one another. The geniuses in charge have apparently noticed that students now show up for college not only in need of basic skills in math, English, and science but also lack manners. (Has day care created a couple of generations of people seemingly raised by wolves?)--ed)
On the San Marcos campus there is now a "Civility Committee"--(seriously!)--set to roam the university rewarding acts of kindness with gift cards and T-shirts.
YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS UP!
No wonder China, and virtually every other country that has not yet been commandeered by bonehead politically correct liberals, is stealing our lunch money and running our drawers up the schoolyard flag pole!
Here's a thought:
How about rejecting students too loutish and stupid to do college level work? Not everybody should go to college. We need to get over the idea that four years of protracted adolescence coupled with a few hours of study is the only key to success in America.
There is dignity and honor in occupations like auto repair, plumbing and other jobs that require heavy lifting. Doubt me? Check out a plumber's W-2. Or, even better, next time your sump won't pump, try calling a professor.
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Make sure you ask for the one with the smiley face button.
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