Prof Forces Students to Write Appeasement Letters

NewsMax.com ^ | 3/10/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Parents, do you know what is going on at your children's schools? A professor at Citrus College in Glendora, Calif., forced her students to write letters of appeasement to President Bush and lowered the grades of those who refused.

"Professor Rosalyn Kahn demanded that students in her Speech 106, which is a required course, also write to a state senator expressing the same anti-war sentiments. When several students asked if they could write letters supportive of Bush instead, she told them that would not be acceptable and their grades would suffer if they did so," Fox News reported today.

After Foundation for Individual Rights in Education blew the whistle on the left-wing hypocrite Kahn, the college "sanctioned" her, although it failed to fire her, and apologized to the students.

"While professor Kahn is free to hold and espouse her views on appropriate matters of public concern, it is, of course, absolutely impermissible for her or any professor to coerce students to share her political orthodoxies. This was an unconscionable abuse of classroom power," said Thor Halvorssen, CEO of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

The only place we've seen this item is Fox News. Imagine the national uproar if a prof forced students to write pro-war and pro-Bush letters. He'd be fired on the spot.

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[Mr. Mojo]

Imagine the national uproar if a prof forced students to write pro-war and pro-Bush letters. He'd be fired on the spot.

Says it all.

[chachacha]

UNITED STATES COLLEGES AND THE UNITED NATIONS ARE TERRORIST BREEDING GROUNDS WITH TERRORIST PROFESSORS AND DEBATERS. FOR TOO LONG THIS HAS BEEN CONSIDERED OPEN AND FREE SPEACH, SELF EXPRESSION, OR SOME OTHER ACADEMIC BUSS WORD FOR ANTI AMERICAN CONDUCT. EVERY COLLEGE IN THIS COUNTRY AND EVERY OFFICE IN THE UNITED NATIONS SHOULD BE GONE OVER WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB.
EVERY PROFESSOR SHOULD BE INVESTEGATED EVERY DEBATER SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED.

I'LL BET THE JAILS WOULD BE FULL OF STUDENTS, PROFESSORS AND DEBATERS.

[kidd]

Dear President Bush,

Saddam Hussein has killed thousands and thousands of his own people. He threatens to do the same to United States citizens. He has gassed the Kurds. He tortures children. He supports terrorism. He pays teenage Palestinians to blow themselves up in the presence of innocent Israelis. He has thumbed his nose at every UN resolution. He has invaded heighboring countries.

Please be nice to him.

Signed,
A coerced student.

[Salvation]

college

[RJCogburn]

"Foundation for Individual Rights in Education"

A wonderful organization worthy of our support. Check it out.
http://www.thefire.org

[TxBec]

ping

[dd5339]

Heads up on the leftist educational agenda!

Semper Fi

[pettifogger]

Can't vouch for this, but a friend of a friend with kids in Boston-area public high school claimed her child's English teacher demanded her students do the same. A number of parents complained and the assignment was changed to permit students to write to the President with their respective opinions.

[LiteKeeper]

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[CSM]

I will add to this. I was speaking to some students at Wayne State U. in Michigan and they were telling me that the students that attended the books instead of bombs rally last week were given extra credit. The professors didn't even have the classes as scheduled. I suggested that they go to the registrar and request a refund for the missed class time....

[Pablo64]

Thanks for the ping. There is a part of me (which I manage to keep in check) that really, really wants to go back to college and take some classes just for the express opportunity to confront idiots and mental midgets like this professor and her ilk. I know I would just be causing trouble, but who knows, maybe I could get a couple of young "skulls full of mush" to actually think. It would also probably be a wonderful hobby and stress reliever for me as well, LOL!!

Maybe someday.

[Fintan]

Imagine the national uproar if a prof forced students to write pro-war and pro-Bush letters. He'd be fired on the spot.

Naaaaaaaaaah. The ACLU would certainly jump in feet first to protect his or her First Amendment rights...