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More Whining Pussy Liberals Complain That They Are Inadaquate, So It's Someone Else's Fault

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Klaus Schadenfreude

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Oct 5, 2022, 6:39:24 PM10/5/22
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/opinions/nyu-chemistry-professor-student-complaint-filipovic/index.html

The dismissal of a renowned chemistry professor from NYU after a spate
of student complaints about his teaching has reinvigorated a series of
long-standing questions about the modern academy: Are academic
standards dropping? Are professors and administrators too beholden to
students’ fragile emotions – and their parents’ tuition dollars? And
what’s wrong with kids these days, anyway?

Maitland Jones Jr. is one of the nation’s top organic chemistry
professors. He was tenured at Princeton, wrote an influential
textbook, retired and went on to teach at NYU on an annual contract
basis, where he won awards for his teaching.

This year, though, he was sacked – after 82 of the 350 students in his
course signed a petition because, they said, their low scores
demonstrated that his class was too hard.

The students are pandemic-rattled zoomers who, in a petition to the
university, complained that Jones did not provide opportunities for
extra credit and gave out grades in his orgo class that were “not an
accurate reflection of the time and effort” that they had put into it.
These whiney losers will never make it in real life, and will line up
to vote for anyone willing to dismiss their student loans when they
get out of college and end up working at a car warranty call center.
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