An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Education? MY Way, Or The Highway
Students are no longer being educated. They are being indoctrinated. Force fed the teacher’s view and unable to dispute them. Even though we still have a 1st Amendment, at least on paper, the rights of free speech have been usurped by those who are in ‘charge’.
Pro-marriage speech garners professor’s profane wrath
Less than a month after voters in California decided to amend their state constitution and protect traditional marriage, Jonathan Lopez — in a public speaking class — shared his beliefs on faith and marriage. David French of the Alliance Defense Fund picks up the story.
“Jonathan talked about his faith — and one of the things he talked about in context of his faith was…marriage,” says French. “He read from the dictionary definition of marriage. The professor stopped the class, called him a ‘fascist b_____d’ — [he] used the expletive — [and] told the class that anyone who wanted to could leave if they were offended….”
According to an ADF press release, when no one got up to leave, the instructor simply dismissed the class, effectively ending Lopez’s speech — which violated the student’s free-speech rights, adds the attorney, especially since other students made speeches on other subjects. Religious speech, notes French, apparently was excluded from the open-ended speech assignment.
Is this student paying this so called professor to give him an education? Odds are, yes. Is this a taxpayer funded “institute of higher learning”? Again, odds are, yes, since it is a community college.
According to the ADF attorney, the professor was not yet finished. “When [Lopez later] complained about what was an obvious act of censorship, he was threatened with expulsion by that same professor,” he says.
The speech professor is identified as John Matteson of Los Angeles Community College. ADF reports that after Proposition 8 (the marriage-related constitutional amendment) was approved on November 4, Matteson told his entire class: “If you voted yes on Proposition 8, you are a fascist b_____d.”
Ultimately Matteson refused to grade Lopez’s November 24 speech, and wrote on the evaluation: “Ask God what your grade is.”
The ignorance of so called educated people is becoming more and more apparent. If such as Matteson are allowed to continue in the education of our children, our children will be just as ignorant as he. Calling a student a “fascist bastard” tells me all I need to know about this POS.
Typical arrogance from those in academia who’ve lived in the Ivory Tower all their lives. My sister is a teacher, and I’m amazed at the things she believes. She’s had one job, at the same school, her entire life, and yet pontificates to me about how The Real World is.
No wonder we’re “estranged”.
My son got tired of being force-fed this load of socialist crud when he was in high school, and would (very politely) challenge some of his teachers when they attempted to sell their “facts” to him. He must have done it the Politically Correct way, as he stood firm in his beliefs, and still got excellent grades.
he’s in College now, and tells me the teachers are still the same!
I’m at the point where there should be NO publicly funded ‘institutions’. I’ve found that those with that little piece of paper (degree) are no more intelligent than those without….sometimes, no where near as smart. It’s a shame Christian based colleges are so expensive. MUCH better education, with an eye towards allowing the kids to actually THINK. Novel concept, eh?
Well, as a wise friend of mine once said, “A degree is no indication that you’re smart, only that you stuck it out for the four years”.
I’ve seen new Engineers right out of school that thought they knew everything, and were actually a danger to themselves and others.
To quote Mencken: Those who can – do. Those who can’t – teach.
yep, and those can’t teach…..ADMINISTRATE!
OMG! Yep…yer right. And look where that’s gotten us. Gag!
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