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Saturday, April 22. 2017

I thought Pomona College was an elite school

A comment on a Pomona writing sample:



It is filled with excruciating solecisms (“Though this institution as well as many others including this entire country, have been founded upon the oppression and degradation of marginalized bodies, it has a liability to protect the students that it serves”); garbled regurgitations of High Theory (“The notion of discourse, when it comes to discussions about experiences and identities, deters the ‘Columbusing’ of established realities and truths [coded as ‘intellectual inquiry’] that the institution promotes”); and sheer head-scratchers of incomprehensibility (“To conclude our statement, we invite you to respond to this email by Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 4:07 PM [since we have more energy to expend on the frivolity of this institution and not Black lives].)”  (Gnawing question: Why not a 4:08 PM deadline?)


Posted by The Barrister in Education at 14:43 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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It must be elite, if this is a good example of their students.
#1 Sam L. on 2017-04-22 15:36 (Reply)
Written in what I call Sociologese. I took the GRE 15 years after taking the SAT. I was confounded by some of the reading passages in the Verbal section of the GRE. I decided to choose the answer which had the most turgid, verbose, convoluted, incomprehensible prose- what I would call Sociologese. That strategy apparently worked, as I got a GRE-Verbal score slightly better than my SAT-Verbal score.
QUOTE:
it has a liability to protect the students that it serves
LOL.
#2 Gringo on 2017-04-22 16:21 (Reply)
Interesting notion that a school "serves" students.

I never saw it that way.
#2.1 BD on 2017-04-22 16:51 (Reply)
It's a dialect of English, not quite a foreign language. The student is merely demonstrating that xe is becoming fluent in it. Relatedly there is a set of attitudes students are expected to parrot before graduation. Xe seems to be doing fine on that also.
#3 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2017-04-22 17:59 (Reply)
I wonder when parents are going to start thinking about ROI on tuition ?
#4 Mike-K (Link) on 2017-04-23 00:20 (Reply)
As I have commented before, college has simply become an extension of daycare providing safe spaces and coloring books for the students. Chronologically these students are young adults but mentally they still act like children.
#5 Ray on 2017-04-23 13:20 (Reply)

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