Posted on 01/29/2005 4:10:06 AM PST by Jon Alvarez
LeMoyne College expels man over paper
While students are guaranteed the freedom of speech, LeMoyne College's recent actions against a student have raised questions of whether or not academic papers are the place to exercise this right.
LeMoyne College expelled Scott McConnell, a student from its Masters of Education program, for writing a paper in which he advocated the use of corporal punishment in schools, he said.
The paper, written for a class on classroom management, originally earned McConnell an A-. However, when he attempted to enroll in classes for the spring semester, he found he couldn't.
This young man needs a lawyer as his life has been turned upside down...contact me at jonalvy44@hotmail.com if you can help. He has no legal representation. He's a Young Republican and military veteran!
Words have consequences.
veteran alert! bias on the college campuses...any lawyers out there?
Guy needs help vs the big boys.
thought crime?
he mentioned corporal punishment once in a paper...so it cannot even be mentioned? wow...
This is more than mentioning. Frankly, if any stranger had tried to use corporal punishment on my children, I would have shown them the true meaning of Corporal punishment.
There's an organization called FIRE that may help. IIRC, they're a group of lawyers that goes to bat for college students that have been railroaded by the college PC nazis.
Could expulsion be considered a form of corporal punishment?
They need to return corporal punishment to our schools, but don't let them touch my kids.
I offered to hold my son for the busdriver. No whacks, but also had no more problems on the bus.
You want some perv hitting your kid for kicks. I don't think so. Or maybe some hormonally challenge boy going up to his Laturneau teacher demanding a spanking.
Does your child understand that you will protect him/her from strangers?
It is asinine that our society doesn't allow mild corporal punishment that deters bad behavior in the early stages. We still use the ultimate,capital punishment, when the rulebreakers have committed the worst in vicious crimes ;few start with murder, they work up to it from petty acts.
You are like a co-worker of mine who said he would murder any teacher who paddled his kid. People who won't allow mild corporal punishment (my child can do no wrong) are the main reason our schools are full of little learning and rampant crime. Discipline is necessary for a peaceful society ,and if discipline isn't self-imposed it must be imposed by others.
Freedom, not anarchy.
Given what's coming out of your typical Liberal Arts University today, students should be hiring lawyers to sue the professors for non-performance.
good grief...he mentioned it in a college paper.
You sound like one of those parents who blames the teacher or school if your child gets in trouble...
corporal punishment is paddlig...
it was very effective in the schools in my day.
so you home school?
well said...glad to see someone in here with some common sense.
I got the paddle in public school (in the 80's even). At the time, I actually preferred it to detention. If I had a kid now, in today's world, I don't know how I would feel about it. Back then I didn't really understand the school system, I just accepted it. Now that I know it's populated with a bunch of people I truly detest, I can't say I'd want them touching any kid of mine.
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