Posted on 10/14/2007 4:49:25 AM PDT by shrinkermd
...In 2005, Emily Brooker, a social-work student at Missouri State University, was enrolled in a class taught by a professor who advertised himself as a liberal and insisted that social work is a liberal profession. At first, a mandatory assignment for his class was to advocate homosexual foster homes and adoption, with all students required to sign an advocacy letter, on university stationery, to the state legislature.
When Brooker objected on religious grounds, the project was made optional. But shortly before the final exam she was charged with a "Level 3," the most serious, violation of professional standards. In a 2 1/2 -hour hearing -- which she was forbidden to record and which her parents were barred from attending -- the primary subject was her refusal to sign the letter. She was ordered to write a paper ("Written Response about My Awareness") explaining how she could "lessen the gap" between her ethics and those of the social-work profession.... (University eventually paid restititution)
The NAS study says that at Rhode Island College's School of Social Work, a conservative student, William Felkner, received a failing grade in a course requiring students to lobby the state legislature for a cause mandated by the department. Sandra Fuiten abandoned her pursuit of a social-work degree at the University of Illinois at Springfield after the professor, in a course that required students to lobby the legislature on behalf of positions prescribed by the professor, told her that it is impossible to be both a social worker and an opponent of abortion.
In the month since the NAS released its study, none of the schools covered by it has contested its findings. Because there might as well be signs on the doors of many schools of social work proclaiming "conservatives need not apply,"
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Is she a “neo-con”? As we are well aware, they are the most dangerous type. If she shows any christian leanings it is the pc camp for her.
This is news? George Will just figured this out? He must not be as sharp as they advertise him to be.
“No conservatives allowed.”
.....Yep, and especially Christian conservatives.
Yep. Conservatives might actually insist that their “cases” behave responsibly and get their acts together.
That’s not good for “business” when the end goal is to make ALL of us compliant and 100% dependent upon Mother Government.
After all, ‘She’ knows what’s best for us! *SNORT*
George Will isn’t sharp, he is rounded!
Yep! Both my dearest friend and half sister are Social Workers and they are BOTH SOCIALIST’S!!!
It is not news to most of us here that professors of Social Work lean left. I doubt that it is news to Will either. Will's piece alerts the general public of the problem and makes it more difficult for the universities to deny that any bias exists.
No kidding. Every social worker I know — and that includes those who work for social services in general —is a socialist, and they either are strong Kucinich supporters or Clinton supporters, though a handful support Obama.
My mother-in-law was a liberal and a social worker. Her experiences with those she was helping caused her to become a conservative.
Schools of social work are a joke. They exist not because anyone cares about what they teach, but because agencies are so allergic to merit-based assessment of applicants and employees that they limit entry to certain juicier career tracks to holders of advanced degrees, and refuse raises beyond a certain point to mid-level people until they, too, get a master’s degree. Needless to say, the jobs and promotions in question have actual cognitive demands better aligned to a requirement for a community college associate’s degree with a passable GPA.
Students enduring these programs couldn’t care less about the nearly-completely vacuous curriculum, to say the least about the professors’ ideology. As far as they’re concerned , lobbying and letter-writing can’t be distinguished from any other of the make-work that they have to endure to get their money.
By the way, while they’re mostly Democrats, you’re not going to find a more realistic and (dare I say) socially conservative body in at least some of their views than social workers. The savagery and degeneracy that cause social malfunction are in their faces everyday and they fully recognize it. They don’t approve of stupid girls having the children of lazy or criminal men any more than you or I. Where they might differ from you or I is that in addition to scorning life’s losers they also have some pity for them and think it isn’t bad for everyone in society to dig a bit into their pockets to alleviate their self-imposed misery a bit. We can disagree with the pity, but of all the ills in the world it’s hardly the worst.
The homosexual agenda includes “forbidding opponents opportunity”.
Agree with them or never have opportunity to advance.
This professors and this university are going to lose the suit if they are a government school.
George Will. . .meet David Horowitz. . .
I just wonder how we made it higher on their list than people who abuse drugs or who bring serial boyfriends in the house with their children.
I know several people who were turned into conservatives through the social worker profession. It’s called on the job education.
Well, no disrespect here but perhaps just a 'duh!'. This for sure is ONE area; that Conservatives would find a calling and a job as well. Now, if you ran an abortion clinic. . .well, you get the drift of ideolgy here. . .
Conservative students need to fight back!!
Brooker sued and apparently won. Colleges and Universities can be sued-if a school of social work implies that all students regardless of political beliefs can enroll in the program and then forces out conservative Christian students because of their beliefs, those schools or colleges can be sued for breach of contract and other reasons too.
Also, where are the Republican legislators and governors in those states with these schools? They should put a stop to this nonsense but won’t. About 15 years the University of North Dakota hired a far left political science professor to run some institute-he was to the left of Paul Wellstone. Within days he began a vicious attack of the Republican governor and legislature. Not a peep of criticism from the Republicans who held the governorship and 70% of both houses of the legislature. Where is the backbone of the Republicans? This was a non-tenured position by the way.
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