HereAndGone2
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HereAndGone2
1mo ago
Daddy's deep pockets as possible future donor sealed the deal, then?
HereAndGone2
1mo ago
the teen in question had supposedly extremely high grades, had been to the White House dinner and was recognised by Barack Obama, and is clearly a social media star of some sort
The high grades are relevant, the rest of it is padding that should have been ignored (Obama let that kid with the clock/bomb visit the White House, getting to visit Obama in the White House was not a mark of distinction).
He wrote something stupid for an essay (did not fill in the part about "why does this matter to you?") and so should have been failed. If he was academically able to follow the instructions and produce a readable essay, as the high grades would argue, this is rubbish that is unacceptable as any kind of class work much less an application for a place to a selective university.
HereAndGone2
1mo ago
I was self-righteous when I was sixteen, but the Internet wasn't yet a thing or if it was, I had no access to it. I have decades of missed time to make up for, decades, I tell you!
HereAndGone2
1mo ago
I don't know, his speeches would have been amazing. Alphabet soup and a guessing game in one.
"People say I'm an r-word. Sometimes even the f-word. Well, I'm a proud other r-word w-word small m-word from big M-word so take it or leave it!"
HereAndGone2
1mo ago
Thanks, I think I'll stick with the change (I am lazy and disorganised). I really need to sort all the bits of paper I have lying on the desk. Too much information outside the old brain.
HereAndGone2
1mo ago
Draw for the World Cup was held in Washington DC a couple of hours ago. Hilarious in a second-hand embarrassment way. FIFA are shameless, Trump was Trump, and since it's going to be split between three host nations (Mexico, USA and Canada) the possibilities for massive screw-ups are endless. 2026 will be fun!
(New account name since I moved everything to a new PC and managed to lose all my passwords. Yes, I'm an illiterate idiot).
This phrase now makes me wish some professor would set an essay about how slavery was good, actually and when they get 200 outraged essays simply screaming NO YOU ARE A BIGOT RACIST, then they can serenely mark them all zero with "this subject and you are simply not in conversation".
Clearly my lack of university education shows because I never heard the notion of being "in conversation" with an abstract concept before.
I haven't read the essay in question but it sounds dumb, and the student was probably looking for some degree of martyrdom (it's hard for people this young to disentangle the zeal of wishing to stand up for their beliefs from the psychological drive to be persecuted so they can feel justified and morally superior and convinced of their own virtue) so yes, the essay should be harshly marked if it doesn't engage with the topic at all.
On the other hand, the teacher being trans does lead to the suspicion, however unjustified, that they took this personally and are simply being vengeful, since they are as incapable as the student of being objective on this and putting their own beliefs aside to be dispassionate. A mess all round, and Ms. Student seems to have won the point she really wanted to win: I too am like the Christians of the First Century, persecuted by the world.
Well, she still has time to grow up.
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