This is me, except with hockey. The sports gambling stuff is really gross.

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Perfect example. That shouldn't be possible. Then they show up to college expecting to do well without cracking the books too. What a mess!

I say this as a guy who enjoyed his few AP classes in the 90s. But they should have just been classes. Not "college equivalent" classes.

With colleagues, it's a betrayal of our ostensibly shared project, an undermining of the basic notion of scholarly expertise, and a sign of a deliberately obtuse person. But that's just my opinion.

Few things irritate me more than the idea that only the true believer gets to do the history. Who decides who that is? I mind it less from students than from scholars though. And those scholars are definitely out there.

Anyway, I should actually get back to grading these.

This isn't all bad, though! I take away from this (pedagogical/grading questions aside) some real hope. It's a reminder that it's important to hold the line on key values because if we look at this big picture, the bad guys aren't ascendant; they are driving hard for victory because they are losing.

This shift makes my job a bit harder (though arguably also a bit more interesting and challenging in a positive way), but it also coincides with the rise of the most bellicose, hateful, exclusionary, and bigoted forms of Christianity I have ever encountered (which is saying something).

But another issue is the declining hegemony of Christianity, so that people of other faith traditions, or people who have none, are simply allowed to exist as such and not required to either be silent or learn the dominant code in order to communicate in the classroom.