In control of public education

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In control of public education; militant atheists and those who tolerate
Topic Started: Feb 17 2009, 04:33 PM (610 Views)
Post #1 Feb 17 2009, 04:33 PM	eye95
CNS Article (Yeah, I know, CNS. No one else is covering this though!) The student was told to give an informative speech on any topic. He chose to speak on his religious and marital beliefs. For this, his teacher called him a "fascist bastard" and refused to assign a grade (or at least not inform the student of the grade). At best, I expect the lawsuit to garner an "apology" and a "passing" grade. We will be told that the discipline of the teacher is none of our business. Bull. When a public official (and make no mistake, public school teachers, even post-secondary public school teachers, are public officials) egregiously denies the civil rights of a citizen, the entire citizenry has a right to know how he was disciplined in order that we might pass electoral judgment on that punishment. We are that teacher's boss. We have a right to know. How should the teacher have handled the situation? He should have thanked the student for expressing his opinion, commented that it was only an opinion, and civilly expressed an opposing one if he thought that some might find the student's opinion "offensive." Personally (and this is an opinion), I find it ridiculous that anyone could find a reasoned argument against homosexual marriage to be "offensive." I don't even find the spurious arguments for trashing the institution of marriage by promoting homosexual marriage to be "offensive." I find them silly. People have a right to say silly things. What is offensive? Calling a student a "fascist bastard!" However, in these days of "acceptable" free speech and "offensive" speech, "offensive" speech is anything that does not go along with the party line and "acceptable" speech is anything that follows the party line, regardless of how uncivil. That is decidedly not what the Founders meant when they penned the First Amendment. Unfortunately, liberals, militant atheists, and those who tolerate liberal preaching and militant atheistic proselytizing are in control of public education. There is an accepted orthodoxy and anyone who departs from it has no free speech, because their speech is being classified by governmental officials as "hate speech" and "offensive." As such, it is not considered "protected" speech. How Orwellian!	Administrator Posts: 2,647 Group: Editor-in-Chief Member #1 Joined: December 11, 2005



Post #2 Mar 13 2009, 04:13 PM	CT-95
I agree that public teachers are emplyees of the taxpayers. We have every right to their employment record. Absolutely! Discipline within the professional organization that I work in is handled as confidential as well. (I am a coach). I was a victim of a minor physical assault (twice by the same coach) and significant verbal abuse. There were also violations of professional codes and egregious behavior since this coach's arrival in the area. All the area coaches and athletes had to deal with her behavior. When her assault against me finally came to a "review board" all that coach's past violations were not available to the board. Ultimately the coach was required to take anger management classes and was put on national probation, but I was told it was all confidential; it would be a violation to discuss what the review board was about or how it came out!	Civil Servant Posts: 556 Group: Editor Member #34 Joined: March 25, 2006



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