P.E. weirdness 2010-2017: the "Let's Move" program
Then-First Lady Michelle Obama had been concerned about child obesity, so she began a program called "Let's Move!" in 2010. She may have had genuine motives, but the execution felt too corporate.
Let's Move was a healthy eating campaign. For this program, students were to exercise daily and eat school lunches that had more vitamins. This sounds beneficial, as it appeared to be a much-needed, long-requested, systemwide change for school cafeterias. It may have been difficult for schools to implement without the First Lady's extensive support, if one believes the messages on the Let's Move web page.
However, Let's Move changed from advocating for healthier food choices to promoting exercise when food corporations felt the pressure of their own creation and responsibility for child obesity after its launch. The emphasis changed to getting enough exercise; to ensure this, the Obamas collaborated with Disney and even snack food producers, like Nestle. The former First Lady even cut a deal with Walmart in 2011 for reduced-fat, sugar, and salt foods, but reduced salt, sugar, and fat alone do not make packaged food healthy.
The "Let's Move" website also does not have a way to tell if the food is non-GMO, even when combing through the FAQ. There is overlap between the two, but non-GMO does not always mean the same thing as organic.
Due to the lack of information on both non-GMO and organic foods, the "Let's Move" messaging appeared to be made of the same cloth as a large corporate company attempting to provide a solution to a problem they instituted. This is similar to an outlandish "hybrid mobile phone family intervention" campaign that earned inclusion in Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)'s 2025 Festivus Report, where parents would receive push notifications to have toddlers stop drinking too many sugary beverages.
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Weird psychology 2022: more like abnormal psychology
One of the questions on an Allen County Community College Introduction to Psychology quiz included a man wearing women's underwear as part of the question, and another quiz for this class used unnecessary profanity.
Chapter 10 of this same course was essentially an advertisement for LGBT demographics with examples such as Laverne Cox, a transgender actor and activist from Orange is the New Black, and the musician Prince, who wrote about being "neither a boy or a girl." The required textbook also featured a uniformly formatted rectangular "learning pause" box in each chapter for stories and sample scenarios. The learning pause for Chapter 10 included sample situations and resources relevant to LGBT students.
Weird library sciences 2026: "white privilege" in the archives
One Master's of Library Science (MLS) course at Emporia State University includes the "white privilege" concept in library archive practices.
Some lectures mentioned the need for "more diverse representation" and raised questions about "white male privilege" in library archives. One featured a graphic of a feminist solidarity fist. The lectures did include important information about digitizing analog media and tracking archives and databases but sneakily added hit pieces on white males.
When the class began, the professor even wrote a welcome email stating that his pronouns were "he/him" and that he was married to another man. These details were unnecessary; students were blindsided by this veiled act of desensitizing, and they had no use for his pronouns.
The agendas are unnecessary for higher education. Didn't President Donald Trump make an executive order against DEI? Was the school reimbursed with federal funding? Many institutions of higher education are promoting an agenda that is only applicable to a tiny percentage of America’s population. The published material and lectures are swirling down the drain.
The way out of weird education
Students may research universities that share their values and explore what courses they are offering. Sometimes, students have begun the process of switching schools as soon as their term at one school is done, after they were forced to read things that were not conducive to higher learning.
The universities frequently understate the content of syllabi. Universities do seem to willfully downplay LGBT content unless the class is specifically about that demographic; the syllabus for the library archives course said nothing about white privilege awareness.
Could it be considered an injury when a student feels compelled to change schools and enter a college that doesn't include oversharing welcome emails or kowtow to pronouns?
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