Lewdog
Gold Member
The Grad school for Criminology I am a part of is just so far liberal it drives me nuts. I felt like an outcast all semester, as professors would present biased material that didn't depict the entire story. One class in particular was about punishment, and literally the entire semester he showed nothing but material that shit all over every single part and person of the corrections and rehabilitations components of Criminal Justice. The being of the semester was interesting and I liked learning more about slavery and indentured servitude... and convict leasing, etc. Yet then it got to the point where he would show biased material where inmates were just complaining about things like strip searches, or not being told beforehand about transfers, and I couldn't help but to speak up. THERE ARE REASONS FOR THOSE PROCEDURES! It has to not only do with safety for the officers, but safety for the inmate and other inmates.
He gave me an 88% in his course, 11 points from an 'A' with the majority of my points taken off for class participation. I wrote him an email tonight. In it I told him how he made me feel uncomfortable because of how he represented the system. I also told him I thought he was doing the other students a disservice not teaching them the entire story, the good WITH the bad. I said that it wasn't personal, and that I thought he was a good person, but that maybe with me being honest to him, he'll maybe see things more clearly.
I probably just fucked myself in this program, as almost all the professors seem to be the same, with these extreme liberal ideas, even with some calling themselves Marxist. Really the problem isn't with what they SAY they are, it's the fact they can't separate themselves from the material. I'll give it one more semester... I'll just sit back and play the game, but if I feel as miserable and uncomfortable as I did this semester I'l have to find somewhere else to finish.
He gave me an 88% in his course, 11 points from an 'A' with the majority of my points taken off for class participation. I wrote him an email tonight. In it I told him how he made me feel uncomfortable because of how he represented the system. I also told him I thought he was doing the other students a disservice not teaching them the entire story, the good WITH the bad. I said that it wasn't personal, and that I thought he was a good person, but that maybe with me being honest to him, he'll maybe see things more clearly.
I probably just fucked myself in this program, as almost all the professors seem to be the same, with these extreme liberal ideas, even with some calling themselves Marxist. Really the problem isn't with what they SAY they are, it's the fact they can't separate themselves from the material. I'll give it one more semester... I'll just sit back and play the game, but if I feel as miserable and uncomfortable as I did this semester I'l have to find somewhere else to finish.