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.
Speaking for myself, enough to be able to make a distinction between education and indoctrination.
And certainly enough to know a personal agenda when I see one.
I am waiting for mention of the "heterosexual" pride assignment this teacher has employed.
Just affirms the fact that when I have kids go off to college, I am going to push like hell for them to go to a conservative private college (or at least a school that allows expression of BOTH sides, not just the Marxist line).
Exactly!
That certainly made me think...
For instance, at a very liberal college, wearing an "I CHOOSE LIFE" sign might have exposed the students to physical harm from the infanticide crowd.
Actually I believe the appropriate punishment would be for the teacher to wear the KKK hoods and walk around a black community college all day or risk losing her job. Now that would be justice.
Forcing students to undergo silly humilating rituals has nothing to do with thinking. It is a despotic abuse of power and training people to be obedient slaves to the Brave New World Order.
I'm convinced that the Hatch Letter is a powerful tool for parents. Not enough people know about it OR use it.
English? Your post don't resemble anything close to Shakespheare! Much less the words in the King James Bible. True English lessons yours are not.
Try again. And this time think about it.
Apparently Tinkerbelle, you wouldn't mind the next gym class "assignment" of bending way over for the soap for that "experince"...
Thus is the arrogance of the "enlightened" liberal Left.
So now your saying he shouldn't stand for his values and morels, just be a liar and a cheat.
"...Half the people I knew in college made up their "research" assignments"
That explains why so many college "graduates" are soooo stupid.
God help us all
Then you'd be telling everyone that your a nazi faggot. That'd be taking goose-stepping to a new height.
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