Friday, September 14, 2007

Another reason public schools get a bad name

John Leo has a great piece entitled Creating Activists at Ed School.

Leo's piece just confirms my experience as an undergrad education major 25 years ago. I was shocked to be surrounded by so many ding dongs and derelicts (and those were just the professors) on a college campus. Nearly all my Teacher's College curriculum that first year was related to social engineering. It wasn't until my second year that I started to realize I was going to have a college degree and not know anything.

Excerpt from the article

Interventions by free speech and religious liberties groups induced a few schools to back down in well-publicized cases of abuse. At Missouri State University's undergraduate social work program, Emily Brooker received a "C" after complaining that professor Frank Kauffman "routinely engaged in leftist diatribes." Kauffman instructed Brooker's class to write the state legislature urging legal approval of adoption by gays. She refused on religious and moral grounds. As a result, Brooker was brought up on very serious charges; to get her degree, she had to promise to abide by the NASW code. After graduation, she sued and won a settlement.


Is it any wonder a teacher can somehow tie Guantanamo and the Declaration of Independence.

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