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2018-02-11 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

College Student Fails Assignment Because Professor Thinks Australia Isn't A Country

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Posted by charger 2018-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 I swear humans are devolving before my eyes. Or at least college professors.

Posted by SteveS 2018-02-11 01:16|| 2018-02-11 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 It starts with college professors, SteveS.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-02-11 04:25|| 2018-02-11 04:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Of what state is Columbus, Ohio, the capital?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-11 05:38|| 2018-02-11 05:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Facts are just the way cisnormal keeps the struggling proles down.

Posted by Roth LaDoad 2018-02-11 09:01|| 2018-02-11 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 SNHU appears to be an online degree mill, but at least they are smart enough to know this story hurts:
Southern New Hampshire University has fired an online adjunct professor and apologized to an Idaho student after the professor gave the student a failing grade and insisted that Australia is not a country.

Lauren Keane, assistant vice president of communications for the Manchester-based university, acknowledged that a story about what happened to SNHU online student Ashley Arnold of Idaho, reported by BuzzFeed News on Thursday, is true.

Keane said SNHU is not identifying the professor involved, “at the student’s request.” She said the teacher “does not live in New Hampshire and does not work on campus.”

Posted by Frank G 2018-02-11 09:42|| 2018-02-11 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Southern New Hampshire University used to be New Hampshire College, nestled in a cute little section of northern Manchester (North River Road), near the border with Hooksett. The changeover to 'university' happened about twenty years ago, under conditions I don't know a damn thing about. You may have seen the semi-ubiquitous commercials with that stupid fucking bus cruising around (and other sappy, cheesy adverts), which means Frank G's comment about SNHU now being an online diploma mill are dead-on accurate. Very few colleges advertise like that on the tele.

There aren't too many competitors to 'real colleges' in Manch Vegas - UNH - Manchester (used to be Merrimack Valley college, probably twenty buildings max), Hesser College (nickname - Hesser High School, a couple of buildings off of Merrimack / Elm St., near Bridge St.) and that's about it. Now you know one reason I got the fuck out of that cesspool of a city, now ravaged so bad by the opioid epidemic / Lawrence MA welfare refugees and assorted white trash some of my high school topped my nickname for the place - 'North Brockton', They're calling it Manch-ghanistan. Isn't that nice?

I dated a woman a long time ago whose parents taught at NHC - the mother was a standard lefty, the father was not. I was having dinner with them (around 1992) one time and the talk turned to politics. I told her I was voting for Pat Buchanan. The mother literally dropped her fork; the father had this huge smile on his face because he knew I liked doing this stuff to her. I'm pretty sure they're both long since retired, so I know the last name on this jagoff isn't Zimmermann.

That's a long-winded way of saying, 'this doesn't surprise me at all.

Posted by Raj 2018-02-11 11:47|| 2018-02-11 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 idaho?

Posted by Daniel 2018-02-11 15:59|| 2018-02-11 15:59|| Front Page Top

#8 The missus and I saw an ad on TV the other day for SNHU and wondered about its credentialing. Well, this partially answers the question. The professors have their shortcomings in general knowledge. Maybe they should be required to spend a little time on R-burg before teaching. Ha, ha.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-02-11 17:25|| 2018-02-11 17:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Professor Thinks

Wow

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-02-11 17:51|| 2018-02-11 17:51|| Front Page Top

#10 #3 Of what state is Columbus, Ohio, the capital?

Please, it's Indigenous People. Ohio now.

Posted by charger 2018-02-11 18:55|| 2018-02-11 18:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Notjust colleges: Daughter unit was failed in High School because teach didn't think The Vatican was a country.

However, once he was shown evidence, he graciously apologized and gave the appropriate grade.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2018-02-11 19:10|| 2018-02-11 19:10|| Front Page Top

#12 He may have read Australia and thought Austria.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-02-11 20:57|| 2018-02-11 20:57|| Front Page Top

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