How Modern Education Breeds Good Little Marxists

[formosan]

The good news is that the future will be anti prog because it's impossible to convince an urban prog to have kids.

The teacher's union is more concerned with defeating the current provincincial government than educating children.

[Herman]

[DKG]

An educational program meant to help students make up for their mistakes in school is apparently being misused by racial equity proponents and leading to children receiving high grades for very little work.

Credit recovery is a practice in which students, usually of high-school age, are given a second chance to learn a subject and prove their proficiency in that subject outside of normal class time.

Proponents say the practice can be very positive and effective when students fail because of circumstances out of their control, such as a death in the family or sudden financial loss and duress.

But in recent years, the program has seemingly been manipulated by diversity, equity, and inclusion advocates, resulting in even worse educational outcomes. Rather than giving students a second chance to prove themselves, the policy is being abused to unfairly allow failing students to pass on to the next grade level without actually completing learning objectives.

"They're receiving the same credit, but doing significantly less work — often as little as one-third to one-half of what a traditional course requires," he continued. "The evidence supports these concerns: Critics have raised alarms when students complete a semester of work in a matter of weeks or even days. In one egregious example, the NCAA discovered students receiving grades and credits for a semester's worth of work in a matter of days, sometimes hours, and in some cases just minutes."

DiMatteo cited one anecdote of a student who received an A- and a year's worth of credit in biology after only one four-hour recovery class split over two days.

One study from 2020 found that credit recovery policies were being used to help disadvantaged black students but that often they ended up hurting rather than helping the students.

[Prof Emeritus at Fawk U]

Idiotic woke dumbshits.  When will they stop with the agenda pushing?  It seems like whenever one of their policies fails, all they do is double down on more stupid.

[Biggie Smiles]

Idiotic woke dumbshits.  When will they stop with the agenda pushing?  It seems like whenever one of their policies fails, all they do is double down on more stupid.

It's like stupidity is procreating more stupidity

[Prof Emeritus at Fawk U]

It's like stupidity is procreating more stupidity

The endless hell.

[Shen Li]

Idiotic woke dumbshits. When will they stop with the agenda pushing?  It seems like whenever one of their policies fails, all they do is double down on more stupid.

There is no end. I suppose if they achieve a People's Socialist Republic of America they might put their foot on the brake.

[DKG]

From faculty firings to canceled speakers, record censorship efforts show campus leaders enforcing silence instead of defending open inquiry.

The fight over free expression in American higher education reached a troubling milestone in 2025. According to data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, efforts to censor speech on college campuses hit record highs across multiple fronts — and most succeeded.

Let's start with the raw numbers. In 2025, FIRE's Scholars Under Fire, Students Under Fire, and Campus Deplatforming databases collectively tracked:

525 attempts to sanction scholars for their speech, more than one a day, with 460 of them resulting in punishment.
273 attempts to punish students for expression, more than five a week, with 176 of these attempts succeeding.
160 attempts to deplatform speakers, about three each week, with 99 of them succeeding.

That's 958 censorship attempts in total, nearly three per day on campuses across the country. For comparison, FIRE's next-highest total was 477 two years ago.

The 525 scholar sanction attempts are the highest ever recorded in FIRE's database, which spans 2000 to the present. Even when a large-scale incident at the U.S. Naval Academy is treated as just a single entry, the 2025 total still breaks records.

Twenty-nine scholars were fired, including 18 who were terminated since September for social media comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Student sanction attempts also hit a new high, and deplatforming efforts — our records date back to 1998 — rank third all-time, behind 2023 and 2024.

The problem is actually worse because FIRE's data undercounts the true scale of campus censorship. Why? The data relies on publicly available information, and an unknown number of incidents, especially those that may involve quiet administrative pressure, never make the public record.

Then there's the chilling effect.

Scholars are self-censoring. Students are staying silent. Speakers are being disinvited or shouted down. And administrators, eager to appease the loudest voices, are launching investigations and handing out suspensions and dismissals with questionable regard for academic freedom, due process, or free speech.