[4570Rick]

A teacher at Citrus Collage in LA county CA is cooling her heals so to speak after telling her students to write letters protesting the war to President Bush for extra credit. When some students asked if they could get the extra credit for letters stating their support for the President, they were told, NO.

She is on administrative leave.:fire:

This appears to be indicative of the overall atmosphere in public education from grade school all the way to the Ivied Halls of academia. :barf: :barf: :cuss: :cuss:

My question is; When did education become a process of brain-washing instead of teaching our youth to think for themselves and thirst for REAL KNOWLAGE!!! :banghead: :banghead:

[Azrael256]

I don't know when, but it has been going on longer than you think.

If you see a bright flash of light, it's the atomic bomb, DUCK AND COVER!

[twoblink]

Citrus college? Why doesn't this surprise me? I had a friend go there; she said she loved the school, all the teachers thought like her!! She was a screaming toe-tag liberal..

[S_O_Laban]

We'll I can't seem to remember where I read this, but it seems that about 1920 or so the commies laid out their plan to take us over from within by controlling acadamiea(sp?)( in one of their publications). I'd say they have been more succesful than most of us care to think about. It appears the commies are rocking quite a few cradles and the worst part is a lot of the cradle rockers think they are true blue "Americans" I'm afraid is going to cost us a lot of blood to wake them up to the truth.

[Viking6]

She should have been told to do her job instead of being put on admin leave. Is she being paid while on leave? Who's teaching her classes? The billpayers for all this claptrap are the students (or their parents, if they're footing the bill).

[DeltaElite]

Tyrant and she needs to be terminated.

[TarpleyG]

Got a link to that story? I'd like to read up on it. This has been a real thorn in my side lately. This type of thing and the teachers harassing the kids of the men and women serving our country.

BTW, my wife just started teaching middle school and I can assure you all that none of this business will be going on in her class.

GT

[foghornl]

TYRANT ! ! ! !

I cannot use the language I REALLY want to use to describe that scumbag, while on this forum. After all, this is "The High Road".

[Standing Wolf]

My question is; When did education become a process of brain-washing instead of teaching our youth to think for themselves and thirst for REAL KNOWLAGE!!!

A long, long time ago!

[Don Gwinn]

I've assigned letters to politicians during units on persuasive writing. However, I made it clear that letters from all points of view were acceptable and I also graded with a rubric I created to keep things fair. No one was downgraded in my class for being in favor of gun control, for instance.

Teach a kid that his grade comes from agreeing with the teacher rather than the quality of his persuasion, and you teach him one of two things:

1. He doesn't have to learn to write well, only to brown nose, or

2. Since he won't brown nose, he can't do well in your class and shouldn't try. He should not feel bad about failure because the deck is stacked against him.


Obviously letters for extra credit aren't quite as extreme as all that, but it's still disgusting.

[Beorn]

My question is; When did education become a process of brain-washing instead of teaching our youth to think for themselves and thirst for REAL KNOWLAGE!!!

I believe it was during the progressive education phase of the post WWI era. That whole "a child is a flower-bud in search of its own time in the sun to bloom."

Crap, if you ask my professional educational opinion. I would never assign such an assignment as extra credit anyway. It doesn't measure a quantifiable understanding of the topic of war good/bad or president right/wrong. It didn't even make use of Bloom's taxonomy of higher thinking queries...

And she calls herself a teacher?:barf:

[Greg L]

Back during my classroom days I was assigned a review of an accounting of Kent State. The material presented was horribly slanted to the left hand side of the political dial and the professor was a leftover hippy. I tore it up one side and down the other and managed to get a B on the strengths of my arguments alone (he admited to me that he hated my arguments but couldn't disagree with them). I (and others who read the paper) felt that it should have been graded higher, but that was the best that anyone had gotten who had disagreed with him.

Perhaps it also had something to do with the Army (ROTC) uniform that I had (drill was right after his class) to wear to every class. There are days where I think that I should go back to school to take some of these classes over. Not only do I not give a rats behind about the grade that I would get, I have plenty of real world experience now that I didn't have then to make some interesting counter arguments to the propaganda that is spewed out in many classes these days.

Greg

[CZ-75]

Successful Marxist-Leninist pedagogue. :D

[CZ-75]

Perhaps it also had something to do with the Army (ROTC) uniform that I had (drill was right after his class) to wear to every class.

This was after 1970?

If so, then you're an evil killer in training, ready to mow down "peaceful" demonstrators. :rolleyes:

[Oleg Volk]

Where I teach, instructors tend to be conservative gun owners. FWIW, I sometimes throw inmath problems in Photographic Lighting class to keep the students from forgetting the basics (i.e. "judging by the headlight trail, truck moved 25 feet at 55mph: how long was the exposure?")

[JohnBT]

...and then compute the time of exposure if both of the headlights had been working.

Sorry, I can't help it.

John

[Bob Locke]

Antonio Gramsci's "long, slow march" continues apace. :fire:

[cratz2]

I gave a speech on the legalization of marijuana my sophomore year of college and the teacher looked at me the entire speech like she wanted nothing more than for me to drop dead. It was supposed to be on a controversial topic. It was a good speech and I got a D. Many classmates thought it was well written and executed and I had my senior year HS teacher watch it and she though it was very good as well. I was a 4.0-type student and tried everything I could to get it changed to no avail.

Funny thing is, I've never smoked pot in my life. I just enjoy playing devil's advocate... or did at that time in my life.

Teachers that grade based on their opinions and those that judge based on kids appearance are one of the major problems with schools these days. And the fact that taxpaying citizens allow it to happen is another.

[Col. Mustard]

Got a link to that story? I'd like to read up on it.

News:

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030311-13894726.htm

Commentary:

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-goldblatt031103.asp

[4570Rick]

Thanks for the links. When I posted this, I had just heard the story on the radio and had to post from memory. I could not remember the commie teachers name.:banghead: :fire: :fire:

Justice would be, SHE NEVER TEACHES AGAIN, EVER.:cuss: :cuss: