This latter tradition has been most common in America s experiment in mass public education, and which, since the Second World War, has been especially extended into the urban community colleges. It is an environment not made for everyone. Boards of Trustees, teacher unions, district administrators, centralized bureaucracies, some of the public, and of the students, as well as some of the professors, are clearly not committed, regardless of their rhetoric, to this great egalitarian experiment. It is extremely difficult to change the values, the ideals, or the habits of a lifetime. And I am not suggesting that one should.
Folks are what they are, and they have every right to be such.
However, when the way a person is, and chooses to remain so, manifests itself in behavior that interferes with the task at hand, then something has to give.