I couldn’t resist one more time.
Yes this is an issue which I am glad to see finally exposed. Education degrees are ridiculous. I have always known this but because the Department of Education at universities are supposedly the bastions of what constitutes education they continue their scam. Listen I know there are a lot of teachers out there that are dedicated but they are not educating, they are indoctrinating! And the sad part is that they don’t even know it because they have been indoctrinated themselves in socialism. The teacher’s unions put themselves first and students as an afterthought.
My pet peeve is that education degrees are generally considered the equivalent of real degrees. My first encounter with this was my senior year in engineering. I am sure that I have talked about this before, but that year I was on the Dean’s list which required a 3.5 gpa in three out of the last four quarters.
Now to set the stage you have to understand the time in which I attended college. It was in the middle of the Vietnam War and you could avoid the draft while you were in college. It was called a student deferment. In my freshman year many males started out in engineering. After they flunked the first semester they transferred to Business Administration and when they had similar poor results transferred to Education where they thrived. You connect the dots.
Now getting back to the Dean’s list, that year there were less than ten of us from engineering and there were forty or so from business, but there were literally hundreds from education. And not a one of them could have gotten a degree in engineering or business.
But the time it really drove home the nonsense of treating education degrees as the equivalent of real degrees was in law school admissions. At the time I applied, I had my BS and was almost done with my MBA and was accepted conditioned on completing my master’s degree. Now consider that I did very well in engineering and was in the national engineering honor society and was told by my counselor that I had received the highest LSAT score of anyone in my university, but my acceptance was conditioned on completing a degree I didn’t need to qualify for law school. What really pissed me off was when I found out the algorithm they used to determine admission and it counted a 3.5gpa in education as the equivalent of a 3.5 gpa in engineering.
My freshman year in law school there was a woman who had reportedly a 4.0 in education and people were in awe of her. I don’t believe she ever graduated from law school! In fact I don’t think she made it passed the first year.
Yeah so I’m glad the fraud is finally being exposed.
PS: I won the draft lottery. In 1970 everyone who was draft age was put in a lottery and then they drew birthdays randomly for all 365 days and you would get drafted in that order. Student deferments still applied but once you graduated you went into the pool and the thing was if you were eligible for any part of the year and they didn’t get to you then the next year they had to draft all the new 18 year olds and then they would go back and pick up where they left off. I drew 286! I had friends who were graduating and drew single digit numbers and they immediately signed up for the Navy or the Air Force. Anyway, I graduated in August of that year and it was clear they wouldn’t get beyond 150 and so I immediately went down to the draft board and requested that they change me from deferred to 1A and they said don’t you know you could keep your deferred status since I was going to grad school and I said yes make me 1A and thus never got drafted.