Writes Elsa Johnson, in "I exposed Stanford’s disability racket. I was stunned by the reaction on campus
After my revelation that elite students are claiming to be disabled to get cushy perks, I expected blowback — but what happened next surprised me" (London Times).
"Many of my peers and I wouldn’t mind — and might even prefer — our teachers and administrators being tougher on us. After all, the accommodations we’re gaming today won’t help us in the real world. In the workplace you won’t have sympathetic OAE advisers giving you extra time to perform a surgery if you’re a doctor. No one is going to excuse you from a tricky business presentation because you claim 'anxiety.'..."
Here's my post from a few days ago about Johnson's original essay.
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..that’s what you do. Otherwise, you feel like a sucker...
that’s what you do. Otherwise, you ARE a sucker
fify!
DEI including affirmative discrimination and the heated climate change of collectivism and bloc ideologies exploited for leverage and redistributive change schemes.
Serious Questions:
How Much does it cost? including interest, for a degree from Stanford?
What Advantages ($?) does this degree bring?
What is the Cost Benefit? IS there a Cost Benefit?
Finally, what sort of degree is this Cost Benefit for?
The most expensive education system administered with progressive returns.
"After all, the accommodations we’re gaming today won’t help us in the real world."
One indication that the perceived likelihood of actualizing the "unreal world" promised to the young by the left is fading.
so, i asked grok my exact questions. and it said:
* Most Stanford students have SUCH RICH parents (OR home countries), that they Seldom incur much debt.
* Most Stanford students are MUCH SMARTER and INDUSTRIOUS, so they make MUCH MORE than the average bear.
*it did not consider HOW those students would have made out IF they hadn't gone to Standford.
So, AI fails.. Again
Women & children can be careless. Not men.
Automaton Intelligence assembles and regurgitates the popular consensus through a Viterbi sieve. AI does not exhibit Anthropogenic Intelligence capacity for discernment and creativity through diverse modes of freedom.
The Chinese are eating our [unPlanned] Posterity's fortune cookies.
"...“If 40 per cent of Stanford undergrads are claiming disability, the obvious solution is to rework the disability system entirely, not to shake your fist at the sky about how young’uns have no morals.” ..."
That's not quite on the mark, it's the administrative solution, but the university is there for the benefit of the students. Sure, reform the system, fine.
But what about all those incentivized behaviors that corrupted those kids, away from what they should have known was right? How is Stanford correcting that problem?
I seem to remember a short while ago something about mandatory courses having something to do with Critical Race Theory and other Diversity topics, being all the rage at all the best ivies. Heaven forbid we might do something similar with behavioral ethics and practical adult path-taking, eh?
Story is paywalled but can be read here: https://archive.ph/MsFMe#selection-1769.120-1769.321
The greased path (e.g. AI) at critical stages of evolution disrupts human development with promises of near-term benefits.
Writes Elsa Johnson, in "I exposed Stanford’s disability racket. I was stunned by the reaction on campus After my revelation that elite students are claiming to be disabled to get cushy perks, I expected blowback — but what happened next surprised me" (London Times).
Woman shocked that other women are mad she outed the economy of victimization women have created.
Everything about the ed cartel in the USA is a racket:
Disabilities racket
Student loan bailout racket
Tuition racket
Covid accommodations racket
DEI/studies racket
Its In Us (Obama false campus rape panic) racket
Land Acknowledgement racket
Islamic/chinese foreign gift racket
Paid protest/antifa racket
Faculty unions racket
Transurrectionist "medicine/research" racket
And now revealed Leftist faculty-Epstein connected grift racket (someone remind KKKak/Richsockpuppet/paidActbluetrollaccount about this as he keeps forgetting them in his posts...)
Shut the whole thing down, prosecute the universities and government unions as organized crime syndicates under RICO.
After all, the accommodations we’re gaming today won’t help us in the real world.
University Administrator/professor. DEI Consultant. HR manager. Government Bureaucrat. Marketing director. UI/UX developer.
The list of worthless jobs created so women can sit in air conditioning and do very little work keeps growing.
These games are definitely helping women get through life. The author is wrong.
This is why the usual course of wealth is poor->rich->poor in just a couple of generations.
I have heard the same logic applied to working versus going on the dole - if you choose to work, you are the sucker.
The biggest question, ( which the author brought up,) to ponder the most is how will the graduates serve and perform in real jobs when they are no longer students?
Isn't that covered in the honor system?
"No one is going to excuse you ... because you claim 'anxiety." But that's how I get my weed at the dispensary!
LibertarianLeisure said...
The biggest question, ( which the author brought up,) to ponder the most is how will the graduates serve and perform in real jobs when they are no longer students?
They just go get a job in HR or as an Administrator of This and That in the department of Worthless Jobs for Women.
"Shovel ready was not as shovel ready as we expected."
Remember when Obama had to create jobs that didn't involve shovels to placate his base?
His base was a bunch of people who didn't want to pick up shovels. They wanted air conditioning.
@ Mr T
I can't believe you omitted the "specialized language instruction for illegal immigrant kids who don't speak english" racket. It's eating up my district's budget.
Asking privileged youth when they apply for college about the obstacles they had to overcome in life is already encouraging them to lie and truckle to obtain further privilege.
It sounds as if most of these students weren't lying about having disabilities. They were reporting relatively minor issues that they actually had -- like ADHD, social anxiety, or gluten intolerance. It was the UNIVERSITY that decided these were serious enough disorders that the students required special accommodations. It's hard to fault them for taking advantage of a policy that was in place, even if the policy was dumb.
There is a legitimate need to take care of kids at elite colleges. You were a big fish in a small pond, especially now that we no longer let the guys with gentlemen's C's from Andover automatically enter Yale to get gentlemen's C's there. Now in the big pond of the elite school, somebody has to be below average. This comes as a shock, and many kids who never lost or failed up until now don't have the coping mechanisms. And they may react badly - mental episodes, cheating, etc.
But what do you do to the kid who's in the bottom third of the top 1%? Break his misdeeds or inadequacies off in his ass, leaving him worse off than if he had just gone to a less selective school? Seems unfair, plus over time it will be a counterincentive - lots of kids won't take that risk and won't even apply to your school, making it less selective.
Yes, you can come up with lots of real-world situations that involve high performance by yourself under time pressure. But most real-world situations do not resemble a 3-hour exam or even a term paper with an immutably fixed deadline. And most of them are group efforts. Heck, so many of the engineering disasters (e.g. Challenger) came from people being unwilling to shout 'stop - we have to let this project be late/lose money/etc,' or no one listening when they did.
Making fun of the Stanfordites for this stuff is kind of like ridiculing the bronze medal powerlifter. CC, JSM
Oh, they’ll excuse you from a tricky business presentation. You can count on it.
I've had enough old lawyers tell me it used to be easy to get into law school that I tend to believe it; same as I sort of believe the "look to your left, look to your right" cliché; same as I sort of believe the men rustling their papers, etc. whenever a woman tried to speak in class.
If I were a hiring manager, I would think long and hard before retaining a candidate from a school where there's a 40% chance the candidate gamed the system to avoid work and/or receive special accommodations.
I spent about 6 years in college in 3 different majors (Psychology, Environmental Engineering, Computer Science) in two different states, and never got a degree. I really only attended to learn things. I rarely did reports, or assigned work unless I was interested in it. I did great on tests, but never got a degree, because I just wasn't willing to do what was required for it. I was lazy, preoccupied, and not driven. I still got a lot out of it, and I enjoyed not feeling that pressure to check the boxes. I paid my own way, so I didn't have parental pressure either. I do not regret the time spent that way, despite getting no career paperwork from it. I probably could have whined myself a degree or two under the new system.
I probably qualified for some mental disability just based on performance.
Maybe there is a genetic basis to some ethics that you have to learn to overpower, but it eats at you. Or do I have that backwards?
In my experience knowing two Harvard undergrads born with serious disabilities—one with cystic fibrosis necessitating frequent hospitalization and the other with spina bifida causing anterior compartment syndrome in a leg causing 2 months stay in the infirmary—neither student ever claimed special status as a disabled student. Neither ever dropped classes or turned a paper in late. They wanted to compete on a level playing field. One went on to medical school and the other to Stanford Law School.
I sympathize with the schools. (They are in a difficult position, even if it is of their own making.) I don't think anyone would argue against making education accessible for people who have disabilities, but how do you do that without being accused of gatekeeping if you reject anyone?
They could change it so that you need to have a doctor's note saying the disability you are claiming has been diagnosed and severe enough to affect your schoolwork. This would just mean that the kids who were rich enough to doctor shop for a note would get the accommodations while the other kids wouldn't.
Even if you limit it to physical disabilities, Johnson would have still qualified. I'm not sure what the answer is.
I would like to see all the ones claiming social anxiety or similar disabilities get booted from special accommodations if they take part in protests or other events that would trigger anxiety among people who actually experience it.
@ Eric the Fruit Bat, just one perspective ...
I attended law school in 1978, attending a lesser-level law school for somewhat personal reasons. (I had a 10% percent LSAT.)
It was a very large 1L class with large classes for the typical 1L offerings. The professors were for the most part imperious, intimidating and impatient. They purposely stressed those students called upon, and large number of the class quit after a few weeks, realizing this was not for them. Fine with me, they had to weed out the unfit, like a boot camp. The school already had their money.
I did something unusual by raising my hand to answer questions atthe outset in that first semester, despite a noticeable stuttering problem. I respond to the questions correctly or at least well enough that the Socratic inquiry could proceed further with some other student sweating in their seat. They left me alone after that, although I occasionally volunteered after taht.
By the end of the first year, 40% of the 1Ls had either quit or flunked out. The flunkouts were mostly those who just failed to realize the amount of work needed and how to organize the course work.
After the first year, the tone was of the classes was somewhat more relaxed and collegial. I considered it then and now good training for the real world.
It's the same issue with cheating on tests. Most students appreciate it when the professor takes steps to prevent it, as it relieves them of the pressure to cheat just to keep up with the cheaters, and the anxiety from knowing others are cheating even if they are not.
These accommodations are a result of disordered thinking.
The purpose of a society supported university is to generate people who can do things that society needs done, in the most efficient manner possible.
It is not to give any person or group a fair shot at any particular position, or ensure that everything turns out fairly (whatever that means).
Most Americans feel better when they hear of a person from an "underrepresented" group becoming a pilot, surgeon, teacher or leader, but when it comes to our particular applications we do not choose to fly with a pilot who was chosen due to the color of her skin, or who makes her boat float.
Time to stop all the performative nonsense, individually and as a society.
If underrepresented people are not qualifying for pilot training due to poor preparation, fix the preparation. If they are not qualifying because they are not capable of qualifying on a fair basis, stop pretending that it's OK if a plane crashes, even if it's statistically likely to not be the plane one is flying on. We deserve better.
If Grok did all the work for you in college, Grok will also do the work when you graduate, n'est pas? I mean, in the world which Stanford graduates will enter they will have to compete against AI. Who can do this report better their supervisors will ask. You? or Grok who has been doing all your reports? I don't know how one trains to be better than AI but I think these undergraduates had better find out. Another kind of Olympics?
The university idea now is that everyone deserves a chance to screw things up. Assuming you can come up with the money, of course.
There does come a time when playing by all the rules just means you're a chump. In this current university environment I would claim native American status for the benefits, since it seems they won't allow themselves to ask for proof. Elizabeth Warren taught me that.
Given my name, it was no surprise that we were solicited to have my kids apply for Native American support programs.
Except that my name has zero to do with America, demonstrating the ignorance of University and NGO staffs.
It would be hard to justify starting college right now for the purpose of getting a job in your field. AI makes every desk job and a lot technical ones a huge gamble now. I'd save my money for a few more years and see where it goes.
"Who can do this report better their supervisors will ask. You? or Grok who has been doing all your reports?"
A week ago when Catherine O'Hara died, I asked AI what the cause of death was. AI assured me she had not died- that she was still alive.
If Grok's doing your reports, it might be a good idea to have someone who is not AI looking them over before you're turning them in.
Just sayin'.
AI is just a toddler, and it could already get a degree in any subject. Wait till it hits puberty.
It’s a slippery slope. Next you might have white kids claiming to be Black.
It's been said that the major private universities are essentially hedge funds with a secondary side business in what purports to be education.
The big deal at Stanford is to connect and befriend very smart people and go for VC money for your startup, and be a billionaire. It’s almost best if you drop out before you graduate proving you care more about money than a degree. The adhd kids won’t get the funding.
Elizabeth Holmes says hello from prison.
I see a correlation with the sicko “support animal” epidemic. During Christmas travel I spied a blue-haired septum-ringed character with her “support Doberman”. Families with small children in line to board with her looked terrified.
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