{"id":1319,"date":"2005-01-28T12:29:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T12:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/28\/worst_school_ev\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:25:52","slug":"worst_school_ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/28\/worst_school_ev\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst. School. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"

I worry about those kids at the Xavier Institute.<\/strong> What kind of an education are they really getting? Yes, they learn to embrace their uniqueness and fight like ninjas, but what about math? Unless they\u2019re exempt from the New York State Regents Exams<\/a> (I was, but I was taught by Jesuits \u2014 I don\u2019t know if Xavier gets the same breaks), they really ought to be boning up on their writing and algebraic skills.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it, their faculty is \u2014 at best \u2014 overworked, and frequently unavailable for office hours. Isn\u2019t Wolverine part of about 50 teams right now? That doesn\u2019t leave much time for him to administer the Presidential Physical Fitness Exam<\/a> to his students. Who\u2019s chair of the foreign languages department, huh? Is there any arts curriculum? Northstar has all but disappeared from view lately, so maybe he\u2019s been devoting a lot of time to teaching his economics classes instead.<\/p>\n

Scott Summers apparently has a graduate degree from the Institute, but what was his major, anyway? No wonder he\u2019s such an emotional cripple<\/a>: he\u2019s basically been home-schooled his entire adult life. And I don\u2019t think the rest of them are likely to turn out much better.<\/p>\n

I started thinking about all of this when I was applying to graduate school this past month. As I filled out paperwork and gathered up my transcripts, I began wondering who helps the kids from other countries deal with their student visas and TOEFL<\/a> scores? Is there an admissions interview, or does Xavier just give them a telepathic once-over and see how many extra body parts they have? You get the impression that Xavier handles all the administrative duties at the school, but couldn\u2019t he use a secretary or an assistant or something? I don\u2019t mean to bring up old scandals, but he does tend to disappear or go all evil now and then. In his current absence, I somehow doubt that Scott and Emma are processing paperwork or doing any college counselling.<\/p>\n

Basically, the Xavier Institute is just another charter school run amok. The kids are running wild, the faculty is running wilder, and there seem to be no standards or accountability whatsoever. Next time they dip into the endowment fund to rebuild the Danger Room or the Blackbird, is anyone likely to bitch about the funds being taken away from the library\u2019s budget? I doubt it.<\/p>\n

All this just makes me love Kitty Pryde even more. She rose above this nonsense and went on to a regular college to get a decent education and learn everyday social skills. She didn\u2019t let those hacks at the Xavier Institute keep her from making the most of her academic gifts. Now that she\u2019s back at the mansion and running classes of her own, I hope she turns out to be part of the solution, and not just another part of the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I worry about those kids at the Xavier Institute. What kind of an education are they really getting? Yes, they learn to embrace their uniqueness and fight like ninjas, but what about math? Unless they\u2019re exempt from the New York State Regents Exams (I was, but I was taught by Jesuits \u2014 I don\u2019t know … Continue reading “Worst. School. Ever.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76917,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/76917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}