The Weird of the News?

  I didn't write the title wrong.

A headline today proclaimed that 673 faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill had signed a letter objecting to the state legislature passing a pending law.

That piece of legislation, House Bill 96, would require students to take a 3 credit-hour course covering America's founding and history. Required reading for the course would include the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, at least five essays from the Federalist Papers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Gettysburg Address. I think that a study of WW2 would be enlightening to the students as well. It's not like they are being required to read the Bible.

It sounds like a much-needed civics class to me. You don't know how little college students actually know until you ask one a question. My favorite sport on MLK Day at work was to ask employees of all races to tell me all that they knew about "Letter from the Birmingham City Jail". Nobody ever knew anything. Most could not even tell me what in state Birmingham is located. You would think that someone would have looked it up before being asked again the next year. You would be wrong.  It's always entertaining when the young black guys don't know as much about MLK as the old white guy with the First National flag on his truck.

The real problem with our university system is that their primary function is no longer education. It is indoctrination into liberal principles taught by a leftist, socialist faculty.

The letter claims that the House Bill will "substitute ideological force feeding for the intellectual expertise of faculty." Given the knowledge level of most graduates, the "intellectual expertise" cited is most certainly bullshit.

As I used to explain to some folks, the problem here is that certain people (in this case the faculty) do not understand the employer-employee relationship. The State of North Carolina funds the University of North Carolina System. After paying my state taxes, I may not have enough money to buy myself a new boat, but the faculty will get paid on schedule. The people who get attacked and ridiculed by leftist professors are the same people who pay the professors. We need to talk.

All businesses are judged by the quality of the product that they produce. The quality of the University of North Carolina system graduates is not exactly the stuff of legends. Just for the record, the people of the state did not establish this huge University of North Carolina system to have a good basketball team. Sorry, it's just not the goal. We won't even bother talking about the football team.

What do I mean "not the stuff of legends"? I have seen college graduates whip out their phones and open the calculator when a customer tries to pay $4.76 by giving them a five-dollar bill and a penny. History is some kind of parallel universe that they are afraid to venture into. They don't know what happened yesterday if it wasn't on Facebook. They know all about 56 genders and transgenderism but don't know the difference between a bull and a cow. They can chant football cheers and protest slogans but can't (or won't) recite the Pledge of Allegiance. They don't even know that the Pledge was written by a socialist. 

At T&S, I wrote the work schedule in a format that was designed to be read at a third-grade level. Still, I had to explain how it worked to some college grads and students. How do they get through college? 

The faculty doesn't want anyone to tell them how to do their job. Memo to faculty: You are going to have to work for yourself for that to be the case. Go look for a better job where no one tells you what to do.  I dare you!!