Term paper about 'God' earns student failing grade

Daily Press (Victorville CA) ^ | LEROY STANDISH

[zlala]

Another publik skool teacher that doesn't understand that a student can write about God in the classroom.

[mgc1122]

Dear perfesser, what is religion without God?

[ken21]

in buddha we trust

be ok on the democrat plantation!

[AppyPappy]

I don't loose my First Amendment rights

The editor of this paper should be smacked around.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Maybe we should have helped out more with the turn page paper & diorama.

[longtermmemmory]

The illiterati continue to push freedome FROM religion.

This extraction of God from public life is just as much a religion (cult?) as any other belief.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Yeah, what a looser.

[FormerACLUmember]

Bethany Hauf was given an "F" by this evil monster, but she earned an "A+" in her ultimate report card.

[Sam the Sham]

"He said it would offend others in class," Hauf, a 34-year-old mother of four, said. "I didn't realize God was taboo."

The people who want to remove the flag and God from American public life always use that "others might be offended" weasel excuse. They never have the guts to say that THEY are offended.

[peacebaby]

God knows who instructor Michael Shefchik is, and where he lives.

big mistake!

[WakeUpAndVote]

How about if I write about bustin a #@$% in my ())^90 A$$ and shootin' my 9 at a drive by?

[PaulaB]

she argued it would be impossible to write about the affect of Christianity on the development of the United States without using the word God.

Unfortunately common sense does not usually take hold with these weirdo teachers...

[StrangerInParadise]

I've written many papers in my education career. I never had them shared with others, even at the graduate level. This is truly a weasel excuse. To share papers violates the student's privacy.

[orionblamblam]

> God knows who instructor Michael Shefchik is, and where he lives.

Nice.

[xcamel]

11th Comandment:
Thou Shalt Squall Like A Baby When Exposed To The Name Of Thy Creator And Judge"

[lowbridge]

Hauf's teacher approved her term paper topic — Religion and its Place within the Government — on one condition: Don't use the word God. Instead of complying with VVCC adjunct instructor Michael Shefchik's condition Hauf wrote a 10-page report for her English 101 class entitled "In God We Trust."

"He said it would offend others in class,"

Teacher, where is this right not to be offended? Where did it come from? And how does it override the right of your student? Must she engage in self cenmsorship so not to offend? And why doesnt it bother you that you have offended the other half of the population?

[orionblamblam]

OK, so a student did something *other* than what she said she was going to do, and got a failing grade for her efforts. This is news?

Would it have been ok if I'd turned in a sci-fi story instead of a term paper on the Civil War?

[plain talk]

How would this offend anyone in class? When we wrote papers in my college everyone did their thing, turned it in. No one saw others' papers.

[kcvl]

Shefchik, a self-described atheist

Shefchik told Hauf that among the reasons for the low grade was that references to God could be offensive.