Posted on 05/08/2002 1:11:25 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker
KIRTLAND, Ohio -- What if a class assignment forced you to choose between getting a passing grade or following your moral values?
NewsChannel5's Kareen Wynter reported that one student decided to fight it, but it almost cost him the school year.
Many students dream of graduating school with high honors, but this student said that he has little to look forward to in his final weeks.
"It's a moral issue I have," he said. "I pay tuition to come to this school. I shouldn't have to defend my moral issues."
A class project in criminal justice turned sour for the college senior, who we'll call Ian.
The assignment was to wear a pink triangle around school for the day as a symbol of gay rights and then write about the experience. Ian confronted his teacher.
"I asked 'What if a student were to feel uncomfortable with this -- would there be an alternate assignment?'" he said. "She said no."
He, in turn, got an F and faced expulsion.
So why wasn't the student offered a backup assignment? Lakeland administrators said that it is part of classroom policy.
"I think if the situation were easy, it wouldn't have been part of the curriculum," said Barbara Grano of Lakeland.
Still, faculty members said that they didn't break the rules.
"Absolutely, this student had an option," she said.
When NewsChannel5 spoke with Ian later in the day, his teacher had given him an apology note that read, in part, that the requirement was waived.
Ian said that he doesn't think things would have been resolved had NewsChannel5 not gotten involved.
"I appreciate everything you've done," he said.
His mother was happy, too.
"I was thrilled," she said. "Here's a young man who stood up for himself, and it worked."
Professors at Lakeland said that there's a list of things you can and can't challenge in the school's handbook.
That is an extremely dangerous question. You should not attack my integrity, my character, my knowledge, or my intellect. I did not start on that path with you, yet you choose to position yourself into some kind of a frontal assault on my education.
For the record, I have a high school diploma. I am very well read, though, and possess a rare ability to write as well as any of my colleagues.
I am not happy with your remark.
Incidentally, the degree of education one has has only a very tenuous bearing on how intelligent one is... which, in turn, hasn't the slightest relationship to how much one's worldview corresponds to reality.
(As most academicians daily prove.)
No he didn't. The gay agenda did. They got their reward from the other 99% of the students that fell for it.
Because the poor kid earned it. No one should be forced to pretend to be gay. It's dehumanizing to a straight man.
I am glad I went to school in Poland. The worst Mickey Mouse thing was to go to the May 1st parade while in high school. In the University they did not force anyone to do that (during Gierek rule).
Gee, mandatory homo signs and sacks of flour, why people put up with such crap? I think May the First parade is more dignified. Good that I do not need to study anymore.
Because it's dehumanizing. It breaks down their free will piece by piece.
Of course, my triangle would have measured exactly 1 millimeter on a side. Then if the teacher b!tches...take the F.
Under the Hatch Amendment, we hereby request that our child not be involved in any school activity or material listed below unless we have first reviewed all the relevant material and given our written consent for their use.
Values clarification, use of moral dilemmas, discussion of religious or moral standards, role playing, open-ended discussions of situations involving moral issues, survival games including life/death decision exercises, contrived incidents for self-revelation, sensitivity training, group encounter sessions, talk-ins, magic circle techniques, self-evaluation, auto-criticism, strategies designed for self-disclosure including the keeping of a diary, journal or log book, sociograms, sociodramas, psychodramas, blindfolded walks, isolation techniques, death education including abortion, euthanasia, suicide, use of violence, discussions of death and dying, curricula or books and reading materials pertaining to religious beliefs (including elements of witchcraft), drugs and alcohol, nuclear war, nuclear policy, nuclear classroom games, globalism, one world government, curricula discussing anti-nationalistic views, evolution, discussion and testing on interpersonal relationship, discussions of attitudes towards parents and parenting, health education including human development, and education in human sexuality including birth control and pre-marital sex.
Psychological and psychiatric treatment or adult and peer counseling that is designed to affect behavioral, emotional or attitudinal characteristics of an individual or designated to elicit information about attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings of an individual or group.
The purpose of this letter is to preserve our child’s rights under the pupil’s rights amendment, the Hatch Amendment to the General Education Act, and under its regulation, as published in the Federal Register on September 6, 1984, which became effective November 12, 1984. These regulations provide a procedure for filing complaints first at the local level and then with the U.S. Department of Education. If a voluntary remedy fails, federal funds can be withdrawn from those in violation of the law.
The above is a snippet from the Hatch Amendment letter. Although it's a little too late for those parents to notify the school of the Hatch letter applying to the kid, the basic 'rights' still apply.
The Hatch Letter is like Visa...'don't let 'em leave home without it.'(and go to public school)
Actually it was
EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY
Special rights victory ... BullS*IT rather.
Until the scholl was exposed (in their illegality and glorious forced thought-control hypocrisy) red-handed by the TV station, he had been explicitly and without any appeal FACED WITH BEING KICKED OUT OF SCHOOL AND FAILING.
That's NOT "special rights" .... nor a victory. THAT'S CENSORSHIP, PROPAGANDA, AND THOUGHT CONTROL by the homosexuals.
Now, are you going to put a "Abortion Kills a Living Heart" bumper sticker on YOUR car?
Oh puh-leeeeze...The kid had more balls than you'd ever dream of having. Of course you never answered the question if would it be OK to force a Muslim kid to go to a Church as pray to Jesus and report on the experience. The kid stood up for a principal and earned most decent people's respect.
BTW, what in the world does pink triangle politics have to do with CRIMINAL JUSTICE, which is the subject of the class? You might have a minute point if this were an elective class in some liberal arts class on Tolerance of the Perverted or Sodomy 101, but this is a class on CRIMINAL JUSTICE. This is an attempt by the 'professor' to force political beliefs down the throats of the students in a subject that isn't even related. This is likely a required class for future policement and this is a political move by a 'professor' to advance a political movement. Totally improper in any book, but expected in today's cesspools called Universities. And besides, why would a student get an F for not completing one assignment unless it was a major part of the class? This is all the intolerant gay agenda at work once again.
So if the point of the exercise said walk a mile in an incestuals shoes would that be a reasonable request?
I think nothing short of a court order prohibiting this practice is absolutely necessary.
(Personally, I would fire this "professor". She is not qualified to teach anything.)
But only for a day...
*smirk*
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