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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI’m sure you remember Jodi Rives Meier, the part-time instructor at Butte College\u2019s Chico, California who, being smarter than us criticized veteran students as generally unprepared and largely unteachable in regards to taking her rigorous classes in Communications. The college president tossed aside her comments and made this statement in support of veterans who are students;<\/p>\n
[T]he views expressed by this part-time faculty member in no way reflect the values of the college or its position toward veterans. Many faculty, staff, and administrators at Butte College have parents, sons, daughters and other loved ones who are service members or veterans. Many are veterans themselves and some are still serving. In spite of this, personal views, however offensive, expressed on personal social media sites are free speech. That being said, taking offense to views and comments of this faculty member does not justify personal attacks on her or her family. Threatening any individual with physical harm for any reason, regardless of difference in opinions or views, is deplorable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh, and yeah, by the way let’s turn it around on the people who are using their own rights to free speech and criticizing Ms. Meier. But, moving on, Kevin sends us an article from The Army Times<\/a> about a Veterans Students Association study which refutes Ms. Meier’s contentions;<\/p>\n
Some 59 percent of veterans within the study earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in the six-year timeframe typically considered to calculate graduation rates. In comparison, just under 56 percent of students across all four-year schools graduated in that timeframe, according to the most recent Education Department data available.<\/p>\n
About 43 percent of student vets earned associate degrees within the three-year timeframe typically used to calculate that degree\u2019s graduation rate. Meanwhile, only 33 percent of students across all two-year institutions graduated in that timeframe, Education Department data show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, about 1\/3 more students who are veterans graduate from Butte College’s associate degree programs than those who don’t benefit from military service. Like I said initially, maybe it isn’t veterans who do poorly in Ms. Meier’s classes, maybe it is the teacher who is failing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"