I'm 60 and back in school to get a Master's. Having a shit-ton of trouble - either I suffer with the woke curriculum and just go with the flow and get angrier, or I go off script with the truth and red-pill my peers and get eaten alive and told where I can shove my "opinions."
It's too late to withdraw and get back my tuition. Just looking for anyone else in the same situation... so, if you aren't in this situation - thanks so much for stopping by.
All online - sucks too.
I'm in the Emergency Management Master's Program. I have other educational/career backgrounds in firefighting, 911 Dispatching, Nursing, and Paralegal. I wanted to go back to school to be prepared for "the new normal" and help others once they realize that they were a big part of the problems (knowingly or not)
Our discussion board this week was to pick a recent disaster and talk about how to help with recovery focusing on "green sustainability" and also how "Vulnerability Theory" plays into the equity of Disaster Recovery - to include feminism -- ugh!
So, I chose the 100 recent food processing/poultry plant disasters. I also dove into how the school isn't talking about anything at all - while we are here at the freaking precipice- - yada yada...
Two peers responded that I was a total waste of time, that I am not their teacher so I don't need to be trying to "help educate" and one student applauded me. Our woke professor told me that the disasters that I picked have no value in this class as they are "accidents." Whereas I had said they were not coincidences.
Those blackboard enforced forum posts are usually pretty lame, so you are lucky you actually have some peeps talking back.
Don't let it bother you, if they are getting their panties in a twist over you trying to 'educate' them, then you are on the right track. You must already be making some inroads.
The professor is saying that food processing plant fires are not a disaster? I suggest you come back by pointing out that the scale of it IS a disaster, especially when food shortages start becoming apparent.
The point is that you have to keep arguing your case. It is part of the Master's level of debate that will extend to the defense of your thesis. It is a learning process to become more articulate.
Keep it up!
Also, maybe tone done the culpability i.e. who was responsible, and point out the unfolding disaster that will affect millions from low-socio-economic groups. This may have a racial component due to them being poor.
Good points! Thanks!!
Wow, I'm sorry you are having to go through that - at least you know one student appreciates and agrees with you, I bet more do too but are too afraid to say anything.
I would try to take as much away as I could from those classes, get your money's worth and make that 'professor' work!
Sounds even worse than when I went back to school as an older adult, and that wasn't too many years ago. Most of my courses were science and math based, but a few weren't. I found the attitudes of the professors, and many of the students to be appalling. Half of my classmates were trying to game the system with victimhood status, and most of the teachers were right there with them. Hang in there it doesn't last forever, it just feels like it.