PA: College threatens student over gun rights group
We read:
"A student who wants to form a gun-rights group at the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) has been threatened with disciplinary action for her efforts. Student Christine Brashier has turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help after reporting that administrators banned her informational pamphlets, ordered her to destroy all copies of them, and told her that further "academic misconduct" would not be tolerated.
"CCAC has demonstrated a shocking lack of respect for the rights of free speech and free association," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. "Across the country, students are increasingly denied the First Amendment right to debate the Second Amendment. At CCAC, this censorship trend has reached a new low."
In April, CCAC student Christine Brashier created pamphlets to distribute to her classmates encouraging them to join her in forming a chapter of the national Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) organization at CCAC. The handbill states that the group "supports the legalization of concealed carry by licensed individuals on college campuses." She personally distributed copies of the flyer, which identified her as a "Campus Leader" of the effort to start the chapter.
On April 24, Jean Snider, Student Development Specialist at CCAC's Allegheny Campus, summoned Brashier to a meeting that day with Snider and Yvonne Burns, Dean of Student Development. According to Brashier, the deans told Brashier that passing out her non-commercial pamphlets was prohibited as "solicitation." They told Brashier that trying to "sell" other students on the idea of the organization was prohibited.
CCAC also told Brashier that the college must pre-approve any distribution of literature to fellow students, and that pamphlets like hers would not be approved, even insisting that Brashier destroy all copies of her pamphlet.
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Arrogant Leftist "educators" ignore TWO constitutional amendments, 1st and 2nd.
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American higher education: a place for free and open discussion of concepts approved by the administration.
Sadly, that same attitude stretches down to the high school level. A friend was called into school to discuss his son's opinion paper, an English assignment, that opposed multiculturalism. The boy also had the effrontery to disagree with teachers who told students to question parental values, and criticized the school's liberal slant on news posted in the library.
Apparently his writing made his instructor so angry she couldn't finish grading the paper. She had to have her husband read it.
Naughty boy, having an opinion different that what he had been told to have.
Educators need to be told they are not there to tell students what to think, but to teach them how to think.
I once had an issue with my English Comp teacher back in HS. We had a surprise essay test where we had to write 1 full page on who we thought was the "Most Influential Person" of this century(this was back in the 90's). Since I had just done a paper on WWII in another class, I decided to do the paper on Hitler. I outlined my paper very thoroughly explaining how the second half of the century would have been completely different had Hitler not proceeded down the path that he did. This was a Comp class, so it wsant really about the material, it was about the ability to write the paper. I did everything correct. Grammar, punctuation, given that it was only supposed to be 1 page and I could have gone on for 5, I was very clear and concise on my point. My teacher gave me a 0. The Dean eventually got involved and graded my paper for me. He gave me A-. That was my teachers last year at my school. Thank God for Catholic schools with no unions.
I forgot to include my teachers reasoning for giving me a 0.
"I didnt think your topic was appropriate"
My son received a failing grade in a high school English class for the same reason. In his case he championed a conservative viewpoint. Lesson learned. His future essays were ultra liberal in viewpoint and he had an A in the class by end of the year.
He is actually conservative to the point that he feels Limbaugh is a bit too liberal on some topics. Well, that may be an exaggeration, but you get my point.
Yours are only two stories out of thousands that occur in this country's schools every day. Yet for the most part, parents are oblivious to what their children are actually subjected to on a daily basis.
From the lowest grades to the highest, our entire educational system is controlled by the far-left, and has been for a very long time. In most large urban areas, the pro-communist teachers unions are the ones who are truly in control. They are responsible for protecting the leftist teachers and their socialist/Marxist/ communist curriculum.
Does this mean the teachers and their unions are at fault for indoctrinating our children? No. It means the brain-dead, distracted, pre-occupied, gullible parents are!
"He is actually conservative to the point that he feels Limbaugh is a bit too liberal on some topics. "
---That's surprising, which topics would that be?
Bobby: note the last line - "Well that may be an exageration . . ."
Bobby: note the last line - "Well that may be an exageration . . ."
Almost 30 years ago while a freshman at a state university I had a class where I had to do two papers to get my grade for the class. The first paper I turned in was a well written paper in support of the death penalty. Yup, I was that clueless that it was the wrong think to do. My professor, who up to that time, had remarked in class how bright I was and what I contributed to the class, gave me an F. I did my second paper and made it a Left wing endorsement of some crazy position that MoveOn.org would have loved. Yes, I got an A. That gave me a C for the class and a lesson on how to deal with the Left Wing professors.
Well said Dean. The schools have no right to shove their propaganda down the throats of students!
In fact I do believe that a backlash against PC is coming real soon! Hopefully it will be non-violent.
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