Conservative at liberal college tips??

zoosermom
Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:31:26 +0000

Postmodern, I’m glad your experience has been so positive, but I find it hard to believe that you can’t imagine how bias (of any sort, not just political) could come into play in any classroom if a particular professor were so inclined.

And it’s not necessarily about a specific position on a specific issue - knowing that someone holds a life philosophy that is anathema to everything you believe can make it hard for someone in a position of power to be fair. People who feel very strongly about something, such that that belief system is the framework for their entire lives, obviously hold that belief system to be correct and opposing belief systems to be wrong. It’s not always necessarily bias, but a sincere belief that holders of the opposing philosophy are just flat-out wrong. That can and sometimes does come into play in dealing with a person whom you think is wrong and in grading their work. In my son’s economic class, the project that became an issue involved property taxes and school funding. The work could be well researched, well written, well presented, but if you sincerely believe that the entire premise taken by the student is wrong and immoral, then how do you give that person a good grade?