A Prof's Tale

From This Is True.)
University of Prince Edward Island (Canada) Prof. David Weale was "dismayed" that the last class he was to ever teach before he retired after 30 years had 95 students, so he announced a "January clearance," school administrators say. Weale said he'd give credit to anyone who dropped the class, and even award them a B-minus grade, in return for making the class more "enriching" for those who remained. About 20 students took him up on the deal.

When administrators caught wind of the offer, they said the "Weale Deal" was off, the professor was suspended, and anyone who wanted credit had better come to class. "They just want to send out this message about how strict they are about standards," Weale complained, "when, goddammit, I was the one who was fighting in that class for standards." Weale complained about "our so-called merit-based society," adding "It's not a good thing to think that you have to earn everything." The class? History of Christianity. (Toronto Globe and Mail).

"If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." James 1:26

There are only a dozen people in my evening Biochemistry I class this semester, so if any of you are reading this, don’t even bother thinking about it!

“It’s not a good thing to think that you have to earn everything?” Well, perhaps not in terms of eternal salvation. But in terms of a grade in a university-level class? Try again! As the Prophet of the Subway Wall has written, you can find “sympathy” in the dictionary, somewhere between “s~it” and “syphilis.”