October 5, 2016

Based upon news this week out of Alaska, it is only a matter of time between colleges and universities working with middle college students and colleges and universities working with elementary students.*

All in all, it puts me in a poetic mood:

A Matter of Time

It's only a matter of time before your fourth grader

Is evaluating his college prof online,

A matter of time before ratemyprofessor.com

Becomes used to draw a tenure line.

It's only a matter of time before gen ed

Is reduced to a single elective class,

A mere matter of time for the meta-major,

While for career tech given a complete pass.

It will only then be a matter of time

Before employers will bemoan anew

The matter of time they need

To get their hires to have a single clue.

It's only a matter of time before in-seat time

Is finally demolished as a unit of measure,

A matter of time before the Department of Ed

Demands the false bellwether.

It was only a matter of time before parody

Became indistinguishable from our reality,

A matter of time before  I started to believe

That no longer is any of this funny to me.

Oh well, maybe I will stop finding it funny. We will have to hope that Monty Tufnel dude** doesn't.

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* Upon initial posting of this blog, the college working with middle students reference linked to a story from Alaska, a link which is no longer found. The college working with elementary students referenced linked to a satirical piece from the no longer online The Cronk.

** Monty Tufnel was the author of The Cronk piece.