Posted on 05/07/2011 2:29:27 PM PDT by Justaham
Consider the University of Wisconsin officially shocked, shocked! to discover that one of their professors politicized his classroom to encourage the recall of Republican state Senators that backed Gov. Scott Walker’s public-employee union reforms. Color the rest of us less shocked that the professor in question, Stephen Richards, couldn’t bother to get the details right on the law before instructing his students how to recall those who backed it. First, Green Bay’s WFRV reports this morning that the university has released details of the investigation that strongly suggest that Richards will face disciplinary action.
So today, university officials released detailed records of their investigation into the professor’s comments. It outlined other performance concerns… Like missing classes… And spending too much time discussing politics. The chancellor says those comments were inappropriate but wouldn’t say if Richards is being punished. It’s a lesson learned for criminal justice professor Stephen Richards.
Richard Wells, UW-Oshkosh Chancellor: “This type of behavior is not acceptable.” Now university officials are speaking out about his action and its impact in the classroom.
Richard Wells, UW-Oshkosh Chancellor: “Equally important is a students freedom to learn. They should benefit in an unbiased, open-minded classroom where everyone is informed.”
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Courses have a description. Students sign up and expect to be taught whatever was outlined in that course description. If a professor goes political moonbat and doesn’t teach what he promised to, sounds like breach of contract to me.
Students need to sue these leftists. Get enough students suing and the university loses mucho dollars.
Students need to sue these leftists. Get enough students suing and the university loses mucho dollars.You're assuming that the students have a problem with leftist teachers and schools. I haven't seen any evidence to support that assumption.
The parents (at least as long as they are footing the bills) need to pay attention to what the schools and teachers are teaching, and refuse to support the schools if they don't approve of the coursework.
What does this guy teach? The first several paragraphs didn’t specify.
This poor fellow has been infected with a terrible disease known as My-politics-came-from-the-sixties-and-I-never-grew-up.It is also known as Omnipotence Syndrome.
This jackass deserves no less the condemnation the Left bestows upon campus Conservatives.
He’s an ex-con that teaches something to do with prisoners. There is more info in a previous thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2714387/posts
“What does this guy teach?”
Criminal justice.
He wasn’t just promoting a recall of GOP senators, he was encouraging vote fraud by having students sign the recall regardless of where they were registered to vote.
There is no such thing. Every teacher has a bias. I teach my kids to question everything and assume that everything they are presented in a classroom is probably spin.
This is a college thread, but still relevent to school issues.
Not true. Local Talk Radio has been barraged with letters from students and former students complaining about this "prof". and his incompetence.
The problem with this is you generally need the "approval" of these whack jobs in order to receive your degree....so you bite your tongue and play the game.
This could help discredit the leftist recall efforts.
The good prof. is playing hooky? Oh noes!
Sounds like more than a puff or two of pot. Sounds like serious dealing.
Fire the scumbag. Maggots like this should not have access to our children.
Not true. Local Talk Radio has been barraged with letters from students and former students complaining about this "prof". and his incompetence.Hmmm... I would suggest that college students capable of writing letters don't represent the "typical" student these days. Still, that is encouraging.
The problem with this is you generally need the "approval" of these whack jobs in order to receive your degree....so you bite your tongue and play the game.That is certainly true. Of course, that's always been true.
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