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Student Says School Persecuted Him for Being Conservative Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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A former student at the Rhode Island College School of Social Work is suing the school and several of his professors for discrimination, saying he was persecuted by the school's "liberal political machine" for being a conservative.
William Felkner, 45, says the New England college and six professors wouldn't approve his final project on welfare reform because he was on the "wrong" side of political issues and countered the school's "progressive" liberal agenda.
Felkner said his problems with his professors began in his first semester, in the fall of 2004, when he objected in an e-mail to one of his professors that the school was showing and promoting Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" on campus. He said he objected because no opposing point of view was presented.
He said Professor James Ryczek wrote to him on Oct. 15, 2004, saying he was proud of his bias and questioning Felkner's ability to "fit with the profession."
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Well, so much for enlightenment and reason................
The USA needs tons more of this! If the aclu can do it, so can we.
What did he expect when he enrolled?
I got my grad degree there.
There are some very good profs there, but the school of Social work is loooooney land!
Why sue? Since Universities clearly don’t serve the interests of true scholarship anymore, we should start treating them like the businesses that they are. If you don;t like their service, go get your degree elsewhere.
Why sue? Since Universities clearly don’t serve the interests of true scholarship anymore, we should start treating them like the businesses that they are. If you don;t like their service, go get your degree elsewhere.
I am not at all surprised.
Thank God for people who fight against this point of view.
I'm a teacher surrounded by liberals and he'll be a social worker with the same situation. We aren't surrendering professions to the moonbats.
“And if someone doesn’t like someones post they shouldn’t read it.”
Why so sensitive? This thread is all about dissention from academia. Seems stramge to turn around and censor dissention from the thread.
“”The questions I have in cases such as his — why would someone choose to affiliate with a profession that’s so at odds with his beliefs and his value-base? That’s always a question for me,” she said.”
My daughter is a conservative who is going for a degree in social work (required to become a family counselor). She gets the same treatment by the moonbats in charge. She already got the “you’re a conservative therefore a racist lecture” from one of her instructors. Now they have her working an internship with violent sociopathic kids.
>>>I’m a teacher surrounded by liberals and he’ll be a social worker with the same situation. We aren’t surrendering professions to the moonbats.<<<
Same here. However, don’t think of it as being surrounded facing eventually extinction. My approach comes straight from the Alinsky-Gramscii model of social revolution.
Gramscii was the Italian communist who said that the left needed to infiltrate and take over the means of culture and communication in the West, eventually causing the society to adopt communist values without having a revolution. Alinsky is the Chicago community organizer who provided “rules for radicals” to effect social change.
You and I, my friend, have infiltrated the leftist academic community. I think of myself as a termite, slowly undermining leftist thinking, one student at a time. Just yesterday, a student asked me about “the Reds,” mentioned in a book she was reading. She was given a brief history of communism, complete with an overview of Marxist theory and examples of communism in real life, from Lenin to Pol Pot. When this student gets to college, she’s innoculated against leftist ideas. My senior English class reads Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.” Classic stuff, Nobel Prize winner. Very accessible for seniors. It’s also a good presentation of leftist thinking in government. I also teach world history, which includes economics. The students are getting a good dose of free market ideas from Friedman and others, as well as the notion that capitalism is the human norm economically, and other systems try to manipulate the normal trade patterns of human beings (supply and demand, in other words).
I respect the beliefs of my students, but I do not hide my own. There is a Bible on the bookshelf in my room. When a colleague said she was annoyed by the secretary displaying a creche during Christmas, I told her that she needed to be more tolerant of diversity (using the Alinsky idea of using the values of the opposition against them), and there was nothing in the Constitution about her imposing her beliefs and values on other people just because she was annoyed. This caused her to tell me that she missed living in her former town, which had a small university in it.
We are the future, my friend. Our students walk out of our classes with fresh ideas and see the emperor without his clothes. Be well and Merry Christmas... which I write even though I’m Jewish. LOL
“If you don;t like their service, go get your degree elsewhere.”
Care to provide a list of conservative based schools? THERE AIN’T ANY!
In South West Missouri College of the Ozarks (Hard Work U)and Southwest Baptist University. Don’t know if they offer social work programs, doubt it.
“We aren’t surrendering professions to the moonbats.”
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Good point, Scarchin.
And I like your attitude.
It is too easy to forget that despite the domination from the Left, professions such as teaching and law remain noble and valuable.
“Care to provide a list of conservative based schools? THERE AIN’T ANY!”
Sure there are. But it seems to me that this kid didn’t necessarily want conservative teachers, only to present an argument of his own design in his thesis. There are plenty of schools that will allow you to pick your own argument, conservative though it may be.
Anyway, my point was that if we don’t start treating these institutions like businesses, they may continue to ignore the needs of conservative students. There may not be a perfect alternative, but we must start somewhere with market pressure.
Stupid woman doesn't get it, does she?
She is indoctrinated to think that conservatives are heartless, in fact conservatives believe in building REAL self esteem and self suffiency, not turning people into dependent "victims"
Yes, and they have to sue for REAL money. Not like being allowed to do this or that.
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