Oxford University, apparently more concerned about joining the crusade for “social justice” than in keeping their immaculate reputation for academic excellence intact, is planning to change its final exam policies next year to make sure female students get better history scores.
The History faculty at the university gives five final exams at the end of each semester. In 2018, they will make one of these tests a take-home paper because a new study showed that men are more likely to obtain a first class degree in history than women. Only 32% of women will go on to get a first class history degree, while 37% of men will do it, according to the study.
The UK Telegraph quotes from an Oxford document that delved into the gender gap that exists in the university’s history program. “This course in particular showed one of the largest gender gaps in results between women and men,” said the document. “As women and men perform more equally in submitted work, it was proposed that a take-out exam with questions similar to that in a timed exam should be implemented.”
In other words, the assumption is that women cannot perform under the pressure of a classroom environment, while men can take the heat? Well, isn’t that part of why we give final exams in the first place? What’s to stop students from simply opening up their books and using the information available to them through Google? If you go the extra step and just reduce the difficult of the exams enough, you can get first-graders through to a history degree. But what will it prove?
“I think it is extremely well intentioned and I applaud them for taking the matter seriously. But it is so insulting,” historian Amanda Foreman told the Telegraph. “You are saying that the girls can’t take the stress of sitting in the exam room, which does raise one’s anxiety levels. I don’t think girls are inherently weaker than boys and can’t take it. Women are not the weaker sex.”
“Insulting.” That’s a great word for it. And it’s the same word that can be applied to any affirmative action-type program whose goal it is to even out the results between races and genders. It’s a tacit admission that one “group” cannot live up to the standards as they are…so we have no choice but to lower the standards. Ah, but you DO have a choice. You can leave the standards as they are and simply not worry so much about equality of outcome.
But that’s a racist, sexist thing to say in 2017, so we suppose we’ll just keep our mouths shut and watch the world burn.
That is so ridiculous. Why not have the entire class take home and never show up?
I remember one college class where the professor had double scheduled a class hour. He told one class that he had another class that hour and he would leave a taped lecture for the class. About halfway through the semester he had to go to the office, on the way back to his other class he decided to check the tape class. He looked in and there was his tape playing to 30 other tape players!
That’s funny. I guess the students let him know they didn’t appreciate a taped class. I bet he paid more attention to his schedule after that. Wonder if he got reprimanded.
Well I don’t know but if he did I’ll bet it was for falsifying the class roll call.
There’s roll call at Uni – still need baby-sitting do they? Duh!
I see that you give all of your own posts an up-vote. You chose your moniker very aptly since only a shit head would do that.
Up-voting amuses me and confounds the retarded – I’ll add you to the list! Please take a better photo – the light is rather bright!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see you gave yourself also an up vote…that’s equality for all…is it not?
What happens when you hit the “down” vote?
Thanks for the article. But I have seen the flip side of this article. If Blacks or racial minorities score higher than White males the problems gets even racially complicated. First, it becomes hard for Whites to accept that a Black male ranked highest on exam. Secondly, even if Blacks rank highest, the assumption is that they will not be as good as Whites in performance at work- even if their scores are accepted. So a Black male may be passed-over because the hiring officers believe Whites perform better than Blacks. I will be writing a book on this topic. I am not here to brag that I am smarter than Whites. But I am here to tell you bloggers that 99.99% performance in exams is caused mainly by environmental forces than genes or color of person. For example if you lose a girlfriend or wife, your college grades or work performance will be affected. Further, economic forces as part of environment also affect performance. Look, kids from rich families usually score much higher than kids from poor families. Rich kids have less money stress than poor kids. In fact poor kids in college may have a job to pay their way in school, whereas those from rich families simply worry about their grades. I am not saying that all poor kids fail or score less than those from rich families. I am saying the distractions caused by poverty contribute to performance in school or college. That is why most of doctors, professors, engineers, pilots, lawyers etc. come from rich or good income families. Any rebuttals?
I’m convinced that everyone has a God given talent, some mental,some physical, some mental and physical.
I came from a poor family that was once middle-class before Jimmy Carter’s policies led to out of control inflation causing my parents to lose everything! Two years later as we were just digging out, my dad was left crippled by a work accident. Because of this I had to go to work at 14 and was working 40 hours a week in High School supporting myself. Yet, somehow, I graduated with my bachelor’s degree Summa Cum Laude and went on to earn honors in graduate school! Based on your comments, I should have barely squeaked by or failed out completely because I was so poor.
You also tout that there is a prejudice against minorities in education and in hiring. While I know a lot of minority students who have underachieved, I have known more white students who have underachieved. Yes, there are scumbag white employers who will predominately hire whites or only hire whites, however, you are using too narrow a stroke. Many African-Americans will only hire African-Americans! The same is true of other minority business owners. This is just as wrong! I personally do not care what color or sex a person is. I will not tolerate such biased stupidity from anyone. If the best candidate is a minority or a woman, they should get the job and I have said that to every employer I’ve ever had. If a company/employer wants to be competitive and succeed in the hard, cruel world where businesses go belly up every day, they will only hire the most qualified, best educated candidates regardless of all other factors. The overwhelming majority of businesses in my area do just that! Anything less than hiring the best of the best is morally wrong.
As I said, some students from poor families do just as well. But please ask the backgrounds of doctors, pilots, lawyers and engineers. Most of them come from good income families. I agree with you personally do not care what color or sex a person you hire. That is how it should be. I will not throw in names now for I talked about this issue many times in right wing media. In fact I want to write a book on this. A black male ranked highest on state exam. He was sued by the state government department for scoring highest. Did this Black male cheat on the exam? No. The State government female lawyer believed and actually said in court: “He cannot rank highest-just look at him. He is Black. The state judge was so annoyed he threw the lawsuit as soon as the state white female lawyer finished her closing arguments. I will keep posted on this case. There are still people out there who still believe Blacks are intellectually inferior to them as Whites; and this is in governments too. Thank God we had Obamas in the WH to diffuse such belief. Believe it or not it’s very difficult to change such people.
Of course, that is terrible and she should have been prosecuted! But let me ask you this:
So then, if I thought President Obama was a failure as a president who illegally used executive orders to create ex post facto laws, who failed to adequately defend our borders, who refused to live by his oath to defend the Constitution, who hurt race relations more than anything since the racist Jim Crowe era, who resided over an increase in objectification of women through his Secretary of State who is an apologist for a rapist and womanizer, who resided over a growing disrespect of the nation worldwide, who violated the Second Amendment rights of veterans and senior citizens by executive order, who approved the sale of guns to Mexican drug cartels that were used to kill an American border guard officer, who lied over the slaughter of innocent Americans in Benghazi, who publicly lied about his healthcare bill and used executive orders to alter that healthcare law in violation of the Constitution, who refused to prosecute Black Panther activists who denied the right to vote of other Americans through threats of physical violence, who publicly lied claiming that police officers were murderous thugs which resulted in numerous police officers both black and white to be attacked and or murdered, and I could list so much more, then I MUST be a RACIST?
No, it has not one thing to do with President Obama’s race. I would not have cared if he was green and came from Mars. I truly do not have a racist bone in my body. It had everything to do with the fact that President Obama’s administration was the most corrupt presidential administration since the Grant administration (1869–1877). And I know this because of my undergraduate education and in depth study of American History and American Politics. Furthermore, I was one of those who vocally and very loudly supported Dr. Ben Carson for President because he
was the best candidate running from either major party.
The reality is that a person can dislike another person or political figure and it have nothing to do with racism, sexism, or any other -ism I could list. It is high time in our nation that we no longer look at race, sex, disability, political party, etc., at all. People are people and deserve respect regardless of any classification. We are all Americans and we should do everything that we do for the betterment of our nation and our fellow citizens. Prosecute any and all who violate our laws or who cause violence against others either by direct action or incitement. The politics of division that comes from liberals is poisoning our nation and it will destroy our Republic if it is not stopped. How do I know this? I am a student of both history and politics.
I encourage you to write your book and call out those who need to be called out on both sides of the political spectrum. The modern Welfare State has pushed minorities down, destroyed the family, and created an environment of violence in our nation. Changing this is the ONLY way we will still be a nation 100 years from now. Our generation is the last generation that actually has a chance to save America the Beautiful. Good luck with your research and your book.
What – Obama hurt race relations more than anything since the racist Jim Crow? You are thinking like father raising a step child. These usually hate step-children however good they may be. The same with racist like you; they hate Blacks. I was living in heaven for 8 years and still living in heaven now because the Obamas lived in the WH for 8 years. It seems Trump is trying to follow Obama footsteps. But I am told Repubs, TPs and you are already angry already with Trump because he will expand Obamacare to insure all Americans regardless of race and without out of pocket premium and deductibles. Please open your brains. Obama was and is Living Angel and Michelle was and is a Living Saint
First, I am not a racist. I simply choose to see the truth. Oh, and I’m not a Trump supporter either! Dr. Ben Carson was my candidate.
Second, you are misinformed about Obamacare. I work with the underprivileged and poor of all races and nationalities every day in my chosen work field. Most have some form of Obamacare but are unable use it because of the $5,000.00 deductible. They are all just over the income level to not qualify for Medicaid! Instead, they have to go to the health department for routine medical care and the ER for serious care. Many have been forced to file bancruptcy due to the unpaid medical bills that Obamacare does not cover! I’m the one who helps my clients pay their bills, balance their budgets, and stop their evictions. Most of my clients are single mothers left out in the cold by President Obama and the Democrats. That is the cold, hard truth about Obama and his false promise of healthcare for all!
Barak Obama is no angel and he’s not the Messiah the MSM made him out to be. My grandsons are the ones who have to pay his bill. He spent more money in 8 years than all of the money the federal goverment spent in the previous 232 years combined and he left us worse of today in economic terms and in race relations. He broke more laws than all others combined as well. Richard Nixon would never have had to resign had he come after Obama. The fact you cannot see this is due to your own prejudice.
Stop drinking the lying, liberal Kool-aid. The Democrats have been making the same false promises since the 1930s and the poor are still with us and nothing has changed for the better. In fact, African-Americans are worse off economically today adjusted for inflation than they were in 1930! It’s time for African-Americans to start listening to men like Clarence Thomas and Dr. Ben Carson and stop listening to lying Democrats like Barak Obama.
My thoughts and prayers are that your mind will be illuminated by the light of truth.
I am really sorry for you. You still have the hangover of the 50s and 60s when White males were the kings of this country. Think how Blacks were treated-in fact even now in state governed by GOPers Blacks are treated as 3rd class people.
At this point, all I can say is that I know exactly how it feels to be treated like a 3rd class citizen. I have been treated that way all of my life. I grew up so poor that I had nothing and was forced to go to work at 14. No matter that I was very talented, I was told I would never amount to anything by peers, teachers, guidance counselors, etc. even though I had good grades. I was catastrophically injured a motorcycle accident that almost killed me and left me crippled with a paralyzed arm and shattered vertebrae from the base of my skull to my tailbone. Again, I was told I would never amount to anything by doctors, physical therapists, my family, the Social Security Administration, and by potential employers. I’m Irish and Cherokee which means in my native Birmingham, AL, I was told I could not enter certain establishment, clubs, and societies because I would never amount to anything because I was Irish and/or Cherokee. I left the South for that and other reasons. The only places I’ve ever been treated as an equal have been the universities I attended, the seminary I attended, the churches I’ve attended or served and the charity where I now work. So, yes, I do know how it feels to be treated as a 3rd class citizen and told I was worthless. I have worked hard all my life just to be accepted and treated like a human being.
I work with those same 3rd class people you describe and teach my clients how to succeed in this life even with the deck stacked against them. As I stated earlier most of my clients are single mothers and most are African-American as well. My clients know that I put them first even to the extent that I will meet with them as early as 5:30 AM and as late as 7:00 PM so that I do not create an added burden for them by making them miss work or making it hard to pick up their children after school. I treat my clients with the dignity and respect of which they are due as individuals created in the image and likeness of God. I help my clients find better jobs, better apartments, better schools for their children, and food pantries where they can get good fresh food not out of date, stale food. I help them with Medicaid applications and food stamp applications in the hope that they might qualify. I teach them how to shine at job interviews in order to increase their chances of landing a good paying job. I teach them to save a little of their income each week even if it is only a dollar so they have a little put back in the event of an emergency. I laugh with my clients and I cry with them. I share their indignation over predatory lenders and pay off their Payday Loans so they can get their heads above water and teach them to never go there again. I pay my clients’ utility bills in order to stop shutoffs that now lead to eviction even if the rent is current. I pay past and current rent and late fees for them in order that they can keep a roof over their children’s heads. In other words, I empower my clients by treating them as the wonderful people that they are.
You don’t know and can’t fault you for that but do not call me a racist. I have devoted my life to helping others that have likewise been disenfranchised by helping them find their voice. Your statement that African-Americans are treated worse in GOP states and better in Democrat states ignores the facts. Look at the way African-Americans and minorities are treated in D.C., New York, and Chicago to name a few that point out how wrong that statement is. Oh, I can name more but I doubt you will hear it or see it. My heart go out to you because I was once just like you. I too thought the Democrats were going to save the world. Then I realized that Democrat policies only hurt African-Americans, other minorities, and women because their policies are designed to “keep them in their place.” And, yes, that is a quote from Democrats I know personally who will tell another white guy that all the Democrats want to do is keep minorities down. Those individuals are just one of many reasons I left the Democrats and will never return. Very little has changed for African-Americans and other minorities yet the Democrats ran Washington for 1930 to 1992. For 62 years the Democrats promised the sky and the moon and delivered nothing but dust bunnies. But for some indefensible reason pointing out the truth makes me a racist in your eyes.
I have seen the truth and I have worked hard to help others see it a well. Democrats are the problem, not the solution.
I applaud your determination and strength! You are proof that hard work, determination, & persistence DOES work! I love how you are helping others, too.
At least Democrats can stand having Blacks and White women as equal. Not the Repubs and TPs. GOP is a white males’ org whether we like it or not. Have you ever looked at the following talking: Dr. Carson, Herman Cain, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Gov. Sanford; Gov. Bentley, Sessions; Gingrich etc.? These talk to themselves and not to the audience. They think are more human beings than Blacks or women. You remember in 2014 when Romney was running. Romney could have at least won the presidency if he had Ms. Rice as VP nominee. But he chose Ryan – a pathological liar. I enjoyed watching the debate between Ryan and Biden. It was hilarious. Take my word. At least Democrats accept people of all races and gender. GOPers hate mouthy women and Blacks.
You are blinded by the lies of the Left. I completely understand why though. All I can do is stand on the truth. Condoleezza Rice is an amazing woman whom I would vote for over anyone, however, the problem with your statement is that she made it very clear that she had no interest in ever being POTUS or VPOTUS just as General Powell did, whom would also get my vote. It’s a shame really because they would both win by landslides—popular and electoral. By the way, Donald Trump could not have won the vote of the majority of states had it not been for the votes of African-Americans, legal Immigrants, and women of all races. Likewise, Hillary only won the popular vote because of illegal aliens who illegally voted. Had Trump received the vote of every white male in the US, he would have lost the states in a landslide victory to Hillary.
On top of all that, every woman who voted for someone other than Hillary did so because Hillary is nothing but an apologist for her rapist husband, a misogynist, and liar. What’s more, Hillary also publicly attacked the women abused by Bill and destroyed those women instead of actually being a true feminist and standing with the women Bill abused
. Yes, Trump has acted as an abuser in his past, however, everyone who knows the man has publicly stated that that was the old Trump who is no longer like that. Unlike Bill, whom I voted for in 1992, Trump publicly apologized. Even if those women and minorities that voted for Trump did not believe he meant his apology and that he is a changed man, they chose Trump over Hillary the liar, misogynist, and rape apologist around whom a lot of people have mysteriously died.
Although I am not a Republican, I am a conservative. Nonetheless, the GOP does not hate minorities or women. On the contrary, Republicans want to empower all people to succeed. Welfare has destroyed the American family and the African-American family in particular. Before the modern welfare system was set up, most African-American families had husbands and fathers in the home raising their children. Likewise, the welfare system is responsible for the number of African-Americans in prison today.
The GOP is far from the racist organization of mean white guys you think it is. Republicans and all conservatives want everyone to be truly equal, educated, earning good salaries, sending their children to university, being stay-at-home moms or dads if that is what they choose, registered and actively voting, etc., etc. Conservatives are not xenophobes who are afraid of minorities, women, or anyone else. The only thing that conservatives fear are the under-informed, ie: Democrat, voters that are now on the rampage denying freedom of speech on university campuses for those they hate, inciting violence against everyone that holds a different viewpoint, holding up severed heads of any
POTUS, and using people for target practice in bars, malls, baseball stadiums, etc. Yup, it’s all being done by Democrats and Leftists.
I will always tell the truth when it comes to those who are racists and sexist regardless of ideology. That is why I left the Democrat party. Being told by party bosses and candidates that the entire goal of the Democrats is to tear down women and minorities, convincing them that they are incapable of succeeding and therefore must be mollified into receiving government payments, and that no one cares for them but the Democrats because mean Republicans and conservatives want take their money from them so they will starve. Republicans and conservatives do not simply want to end welfare and kick people of the rolls just to do it. We want to train women and minorities in a trade and/or send them to university to get an education so they can have a good paying career not a minimum wage job. We know that there will always be people who need the welfare system (Heck, I’m disabled physically and was on Social Security Disability for 14 years but I left it behind once I was retrained and educated.). Conservatives want to empower those who want more for themselves, their families, and their communities than sitting at home drawing as few measly pennies a month and existing not thriving and living!
I was once just like you. Although I had eyes to see and ears to hear, I never saw or heard the truth. I was then awakened to the truth by Bill and Hillary Clinton and the lives they left destroyed and the bodies they left dead in their wake. It was only then that I truly started examining things and asking tough questions. That’s when I learned that the true goal of the Democrat party is to keep every woman and all minorities distracted from what is really going on. By continually lying to their party members and convincing them that mean old Republicans and conservatives want to destroy and oppress them, Democrats leaders have been able to do those very things in order to “keep them in their places.” Democrats are the real reason that all women and all minorities are pushed down, abused, and mollified—not Republicans and not conservatives.
It’s the NWO Estell – lectures will be by podcast in future; no professor there. It’s called progress – I know a doctor who lectures at a Uni on a regular basis. All are by podcast. Means my kids may not need to go away to Uni depending on what they study – wow! Means you wouldn’t have to hump the professor to pass now Estell, you’d fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “Floor scrubbing and how to do it” – how embarrassing failing that. Duh!
YOU’RE RETARDED. BETTER WATCH THAT WIFE. I HEARD SHE WAS CAUGHT WITH THE NEIGHBOR.
Unlikely; he’s older than me and has a bad back – she’d kill him.
more insight from mr poo head. Have you seen mrs. poo head ? Estell ? fear not !
need to pay the professor with monopoly money.
Lowering standards for women when it comes to a job where you don’t need all the strength required is OK. Brains, men need help. Now what is this all about we lowered our standards,our quality of life, our height weight and education, law requirements for Hispanics, for the past 40 years and you don’t want to help Women who contribute so much to our society. get real
Jesus said to do your best. And, how are we going to compete with the rest of the world and be the world leader if we keep lowering our standards for everything and everybody.
oblamo wanted so dearly to be a Dictator in Banana Republic, he greatly lowered America’s Standard of Excellence Thank God for President Donald Trump!!!
This is Oxford University we are talking about — as in the U. K. aka Great Britain. Sad to see a university with their reputation actually contemplating a move like this.
Cathy you say “Brains, men need help” but you apparently don’t comprehend the topic, they just said woman cant take the pressure to get a good grade on the test unless they do it outside of the classroom. Their telling you woman need help!
I only mentioned physical strength the rest I am against You have to read a little closer, I think we are on the same page.
Never should one standard have been lowered nit-wit. That’s why they are called “standards”. Now you have overweight midget cops who can’t keep up with the criminals you moron.
You should have completed your education, further you should have bought a book on manners and etiquette as you obviously didn’t learn any of it at home.
Yup. I saw a policewoman in a train station. A young male jumped the turnstile and bounded up the stairs to the platform two at a time, in full view of the policewoman who did —NOTHING. A fit, strong policeMAN would have given chase and tackled him. Thugs who get away with turnstile jumping graduate to armed robbery. And how is a 125# wisp of a fireman supposed to pull a 250# football player out of a burning building?
… she is not supposed to be able to physically save a large person. She will stand near the burning car and call for back up. Just hope YOU aren’t the one dying near an UNQUALIFIED MINORITY OFFICER!!!
You call yourself a conservative; what are you trying to conserve? Civility? I don’t think so, or you wouldn’t have called your opponent a moron.
Cathy is a butt hurt liberal.
Dear Butt Head,
You cannot be further from the truth. First read it, get a sense of humor, forget you think you are a man and go back to sleep.
you are repulsive but like it that way. Didn’t get enough attention growing up?
It is official. They have all lost their minds! Lord help us!
No they haven’t they never had one to begin with’!
Excuse me, but giving women the upper hand on the final exam in history and not including the men in it sounds very sexist to me. Talk about full fledged discrimination against the opposing gender. Our institutions are so turned upside down right now that I am actually afraid to send my kids to them, let alone myself. God help us all.
Maybe all males should file a discrimination law suit.
Definitely, plus all the women should file a defamation of character lawsuit! Any accommodation based on race or gender is automatically declaring that race or gender inferior and incapable of competing on a level playing field.
The US Navy was so proud of it’s first female carrier pilot demanded by the PC leaders of the administration.
They lowered their formerly high standards to allow her to attain the certification, until she couldn’t make a split second decision under pressure… It killed her.
if standards are continuously lowered, we will be a country of losers.
They’ve already dumbed down public schools (starting with busing) until we’ve slipped to the following:
Out of 34 countries assessed, U.S. ranked 14th in reading, 17th in science, 25th in math. Some schools have taken out cursive writing!!! How can people compete in the world, in colleges (which must have lowered their entrance standards or they would be empty) with this type of “education”? I believe that IS the definition of losers!
Granddaughter attends a ‘fast track’ university of over 50,000 students. The students learn rapidly what their own personal limits were ‘programmed’ in former years of lowered standards for diversity… education. The initial drop out rate is atrocious.
Degrees from That noteworthy school are valued highly, as the international corporate world understands the level of competence required to graduate.
Then we read of the self admiring, utopian PC schools of ‘Diversity’, so adored by the Liberal Left, that graduates masses of … ….graduates.
Somehow you have failed to learn, over many decades of reading, that dropout is simply one word.
Who do you figure is at fault for that?
I’m a woman and I’m totally against lowering standards, especially in the armed forces, fire fighters, police – anything that is life and death. Shall we lower the standards for surgeons, too? And how can any woman be proud of “making it” when this is done?
The word you needed to use, is simply its. Even the dumbest of the dumb know that the common word it’s is a contraction of the words it and is.
It seems your own standards could use a boost.
I, a female, see this article as an insult.
It would be interesting to see the outcome.
A college degree is very much the same as the news you see on CNN , MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC etc., Worthless! Fake! People graduate and can not even spell in some cases. College was at one time a worthy and valued endeavor. Now they learn to hate America and our Constitution.
Check out the 1890’s EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATION TEST. I dare say none of the college professors or students would have a high school diploma if they had to pass that test to get into high school, much less a college degree.
You have taken the words right out of my computer. My mother studied material in high school that few college graduates would even begin to understand today.
Mine, too, and they only went for 11 years at the time!
Time for all woman to stand up for equality and put a stop to this. They just said you can’t handle pressure. So, can you or can’t you?
so what’s new , they bin doing the same thing for blacks for 70 years , just to get them threw high school
Threw high school? Try THROUGH.
i feel sorry for you, nothing better to do with your time then spell check , i give you people something to keep you busy,if every one knew how to spell every thing you would have nothing to do
Basic ENGLISH, Richard! Too much? That stuff is taught in Elementary school.
by observation, I would doubt that ! College doesn’t teach it either.
MAYBE it is being taught in Elementary School, or maybe not. Have you seen some of the new new math being taught now? If they can do that to math what fun they must be having with English grammar.
There are assholes everywhere Richard, I’ve learned to ignore most of them !!!!!!!
i get that , that’s why i don’t go out any more , i always feel lonely and misserable , but if i want to feel worse then i go out to one of the clubs i belong to and they make me feel worse and then i feel happy again knowing they are more misserable then me, and feel sorry for them and thank god for the life i made for myself
Not only does your spelling suck, You also don’t understand the rules of punctuation and grammar.
In short, you are an ignorant fool. Typical liberal.
thank you ,thank you, thank you, use educated people make my day, but at my age the last thing i worry about is my spelling and punctuation, as long as it sounds close to what i’m trying to say , that’s good enough for me , and gives you something to keep you busy and something to complain about , what would you do if you have no one to critisize
It were sarcasm, mistah spel cheker!
See correction: “So, what’s new? They have been doing the same thing for Blacks for 70 years, just to get them through High School.”
Now wasn’t that easy? Stay in High School yourself.
What’s new?! Richard Bagenstose! It’s not new. Your lack of skills remains low as your text reveals! Your grammar is lacking seriously! But most of your lack of educated grasp has eluded you! Too bad!
well thank you , i always enjoy reading about my 9th grade education , but at my age , grammar is the least of my problems, but if every one was as happy as me ,i wouldn’t be watching all the violence going on these days, and for quiting school in 9th grade i made a half decent life for myself ,still trying to figure out why x sounds like z
I am sure that grammar is the least of your problems.
your right , between yard work , house work, working on my cars and motor cycle, rebuilding my swimming pool, up keep on my house , i stay very busy and then there is porn and my emails to keep in check lol, if everyone was as busy as me they would have time to spell check or go out and shoot up the neighbor hood
Quit being so $hitty!!! Everyone gets enough of that out in the “real world”!!! If we can’t get along here with other conservatives, God help us!!!!
No insult intended……..
I don’t get too bent of shape over grammar, but WORDS HAVE MEANINGS.
There exists many people that have their brains cooked, and they’re subject to permanent insanity.
If a bear were a beast of burden, could he bear as much weight as a jackass? If a bear were to be shaved, would it be considered a bare bear, and like a shaved Sampson, be too weak to bear any weight.
I going to get another beer as a bare bear is beyond belief.
You should lay off the beer.
Colleges and Universities have lost their collective minds! I don’t worry too much about ‘fudging’ on a history exam. My concern is when they give women a ‘pass’ in other classes….. classes that advance them into a pre-med program or eventually a career as a practicing physician!! There are stupid people having a lead role in all areas of our lives, but there are SOME areas I’d prefer they KNOW what they are doing….. an ‘open book’ isn’t always available when necessary!!
Tyrants hide their totalitarianism by misapplying the meaning of words to hide the lunicy in the concepts under the disguise of sexual orientation.
Seems like Oxford does not really believe women and men are actually equally qualified to earn degrees!!!
Let’s continue the process and remove requirements of Surgeons to pass the usual rigorous exam before becoming certified as, say, a neural surgeon. At least remove them for females, LGBT, and anyone of ‘color’. Only tough exams for White People.
I think maybe I’ll be shopping for a White Male Surgeon who actually passed a tough exam if my brain needs further improvement.
LOL good analysis!!!
This makes an Oxford grade and degree Turd class
why bother to give exams? just let them enter one door, pay a large fee, fill out the paperwork (help them do so if they need the help), hand them a degree and let them exit the other door.
That’s a win/win situation. The students could skip a lot of hassle (and MAYBE save time and money in the process); the school could fire all of the professors and keep the money they would have paid in salaries; with “lights out and heat off” they could help “SAVE THE PLANET”; and mom and dad would be able to have their kids stick around for four more years. What’s not to like about all of that?
That is what most of the Ivy League universities do.
Women don’t like history because their “feelings” cannot be used to distort facts. Also, history doesn’t include the latest fashion trends or surgical body enhancement procedures.
The IDIOCY of the LEFT. Glad they compared it to the racial preferences.
If the women do not have the brain power or yet study to pass the test as originally written that is their problem and standards should not be lowered to accommodate them that is an insult to the women who work hard to pass these tests as originally written
Part of the backwash of worshiping Negroes and women. The first one put in a unqualified and illegal negro sodomite. The other one almost put in a equally unqualified and illegal woman.
We got to stop worshiping them. Yahuah sends you them when you SIN.
Wake up from your slumber, oh American.
This seems to me to connect with the left-wing policy of “no winners or losers — everyone’s the same.” Healthy
competition (which means there ARE both winners and losers) is a vital part of real life.
the SCOTUS ruled in 2003 that minorities were 4/5ths a person for the same reasons. Need help to compete on a level playing field. Sadly the “inferior” were to stupid to be offended. Their “leaders” are just as smart. People with power are dangerous. Stupid people with power are to be eliminated (before the law abiding and peaceful are). Socialism (theft) is wrong too.
The dumming down of Oxford HAS to compete and surpass (beat) the dumming down of America!
Next will be higher math, physics, chemistry, etc, at which more men than women excel at left brained, analytical, thought , tasks and problem solving. When are the elite going to admit that men and women of equal intelligence process differently, often have collective different gifts of talent, use different filters to form opinions, often excel in different fields. O, what I just said!!! The libtard PC thought police will be looking for ways to censor me and similar mysguided folks. No way can men and women Not be equal in everything. Just the tip of the iceberg that will sink the ship.
two words-total crap!
Oxford University is toast.
That is insulting. Maybe the women just aren’t as smart as the others taking the same exam. Stop lowering standards. Ridiculous! If the woman can’t handle it, that’s on her. Making it easier for her is just not right.
Women should be ashamed. If I had to cheat to pass, then I don’t deserve to pass.
The Left’s control of education everywhere is breaking down civilizations. Not that the Left cares. This new thang seems to be education by PC mandate. PC is such a big part of the Left’s failed bag of tricks.
What a crock of crap? I personally know a lot of men who can’t out think me. I dont need take home test to score at the top on exams. Is this more of the let’s make sure stupid people get diplomas so they don’t feel bad. Get over it. Women are just as smart if not smarter than men. And it is about time that this cater to the weakest crap is thrown out with the trash.
Indicative of what is called education today. What’s wrong with this picture?
In line with today’s “achievements”, such as the non-achievement list of the Big Zero, a.k.a. Urkel the Last “…Shoot the Duckey, step right up, ….win Nobel Peace Prize!” Wanna be G.I. Jane the SEAL, sure, we’ll waive the hours of flutter kicks in the freezing surf at Coronado, how ’bout a green beret, wanna be U.S. Army Special Forces soldier? Sure, we’ll let you carry the responsibility while the other team guys carry a 120 Lbs. rucksack (that’s military for backpack for non-Joes) each! Lowered standards, lower expectations, problem is Abdullah Falafel and his crew won’t adjust neither their expectations, nor what they are dishing out. As for academia, dumbing down of exams and education overall makes pseudo-science such as the globalist agenda tool of Glow Bull Warming possible. It’s a Brave New World and “Idiocracy” is just around the corner.
This is how liberals operate. They don’t want the people to be smart. They like them dumb so they can controll them.
No one expects universities to have values or integrity anymore.
This is part of the liberal dumbing down of the average person.
STUPIDITY IN ACTION!
Yep… just as the military changed number required to carry a stretcher from 2 to 4 to accommodate females. So what if it reduces troops available in a firefight. In a ground war, such insanity diminishes the point of the spear and grows the support tail. Such idiocy will inflict a high cost in lives, field effectiveness and, ultimately, the possible loss of any combat we’re involved in.
What an insult to woman thought the world!
oxford university proves woman are not equal. Will woman let them get away with that?
So your saying that information that Comes from a book can ONLY be ‘VALUED” if a student can simply memorize the material and “Regurgitate” it in a TEXTING situation. I would hate to think of a situation like that, IF one only had to Memorize and Regurgitate the book on a Medical text or Law Text without having to “Apply what they were learning. What a foolish Selfish thought you are expressing. “A Doctor” Larsen
WHAT!?
I assume that in their march on equality one of the fools will get his pink panties twisted when he finds statistically more women give birth to babies than Transgender folks or men. Lets see them equal that one out.
SHOCKING !! Standards for Measuring and Certifying Basic Human Intelligence have SUNK SO Low,that People[] who Actually Believe the Dog Shit Paranoia-Mongering Lies/Propaganda Posted by TotalConservative,Fix This Nation,Barb Wire,Breitbart,W.N.D.,etc.,etc.,REVOLTINGLY ETC.are considered Competent!!!!!
Betsy Devos is THRILLED by this Degradation of Standards.
I trust that is sarcasm.
O u obso bery smartz. Comrade.
Lowering the standards is not going to make women smarter. They will just be coddled so they can feel good about themselves. If it is that important that more women should have History degrees, maybe your instructors need to make it more interesting. In 7th grade, I had a History teacher who made history live for me.She made it real and current, not worn out old tales. Had I gone on to College, I would have continued History studies.
More silliness from the advocates of political correctness. Every time you believe liberalism has reached the acme of idiocy they come up with new ways to bring society to it’s knees.
Lowering standards to adjust outcomes for minorities and women is nothing new… it has been going on for decades…. the result has been an overall lowering of excellence in education and society in general. Equality of outcomes should never be a goal… Wherever it is outcomes in general suffer degradation.
Pathetic………..
it isnt just women that the standards are lowered for. it started with the black. how low did they lower them. I hired a young man who graduated out of Detroit schools. he couldnt fill out the application form. he couldnt read or write. he wanted a job as laborer. and he was a good worker. was he stupid? far from it. because they didnt want to invest the time to teach him they passed him so it wouldn’t hurt his feelings and keep him with his friends. it was government standards that made him what he is. he learned and entered the apprentice program in our state and is now an excellent electrician. it was his efforts not governments that made him a contributing part of society. we need to get government out of our schools. you sum it up with the one word that describes it accurately.
Grampa
Which in part explains why women are so ignorant in regards to the evil of islam.
lower the standards and you lower the overall performance and people will take the degree and mock it
Seems to me– that it’s mostly just privileged white makes– whonneed standards lowered st that THEY can compete.
How could you, possibly, come to this conclusion?!? White males are the ONLY ones who are NOT getting any ‘special’ treatment. They MUST succeed on their own. This success must be reached by their own hard work AND while competing against those who have received special treatment and favors! TOTALLY unfair!!!
If you think about it, REALLY think about it, it seems that the main message here is that whites are so much better than others that they don’t need their success handed to them.
They are able to EARN it on their own.
See that’s what I’m talking about. You people have been whining & crying for a long time now. About how “everyone has forgotten us, poor white uneducated blue-collar males. You whine and moan about jobs vanishing for blue-collar America. DONT YOU KNOW THAT ALL AMERCANS ARE FACING THAT SAME PROBLEM?!?
No wonder trump said he “loves the uneducated”.. That would be people like you– Who blame everyone else for your inability to compete. Yet you refuse to educate yourselves beyond a GED. You think that digging coal from some west virginia mountain– is going to be around forever– Then you get all upset when technology makes your job obsolete. Something that most Americans also deal with each and every day. Without all of the excessive whining from poor white uneducated males!
Yeah you whining-ass poor uneducated white males— need all the help you can get! “not getting any special treatment”?!? My ASS! Can you say “white privilege”?!?
You people have been getting special treatment since day one!!! What the hell are you talking about?!?
Boo hoo, hoo! “what’s happening to my white privilege”? — “don’t those politicians know that I’m white”?!? Boo hoo hoo!
It’s NOT about skin color, you whining idiot!!! “White Privilege” is, just, what losers use to excuse their failures. If you want to hear whining, listen to what’s coming out of 99% of the toilet plunger lips. If ANYONE, regardless of race or gender, can’t progress because others are getting multiple favors (including unearned degrees) it is, simply, unfair.
Sure it is… I don’t recall people like you ever standing up for anyone of color, or rvrn women. It’s just your precious little white privilege. That you are whining about losing.
I’ll defend ANYONE who I think is correct, regardless of ANYTHING (race, gender, nationality, etc.).
Why wouldn’t I ‘stand up for’ a woman? Even though I am a female, I wouldn’t defend one ONLY because they’re a woman.
Nobody needs your help fool! LOL!
LOL at yourself, fool. You have no idea about who needs what. I was responding to your brilliant comment saying that I wouldn’t stand “up for anyone of color, (sic) or rvrn (sic) women. I was telling you that it’s action/opinion/behavior that I’ll ‘stick up for’, not race, gender, nationality, etc. Do you understand, now?
I know that you are too stupid to help yourself, much less anyone else! LOL LOL LOL!!
Is there some point to displaying weaponry here?
Take-home exams are as valid as peer-reviewed science… NOT.