NEIN! Du kännst daß nichts tun!

http://www.dailyorange.com/news/2005...r-840196.shtml


Dangerous, very dangerous.

If the link doesn't work, go to http://drudgereport.com and look at the "college expels man over paper" link

I say take the school to federal court for violation of his first amendment rights.

Before getting outraged I would want to find out the whole story.

I remember the story a while ago about a middle eastern student who claimed to have been told by a teach to "seek psychiatric counsulling" after turn in a "pro-conservative" paper that explained how much he loved America. That one turned out to be a bitter student mad because he wrote a bad paper (and when it was published on the web the paper was laughable in quality) and was given a low grade on it. The whole ordeal was made up by the kid but it got the local conservative student group outraged... until it was discovered how much of a tool the student in question was.

So I have to wonder how much of this one is true.

I would like to read it. I just find it ironic that a Jesuit school would be so appalled about corporal punishment for students, much less a paper about it.

Rant On -

It's mind boggling the way that our culture has changed over the last 20-30 years. What's acceptable, what's not acceptable w/regards to parenting, discipline in the classroom, etc.

I'm of the opinion that a lot of the ills of society are directly related to a marked decline in parenting. Whether it be to the increase of television and video games substituting for parental attention, or the removal of corporal punishment is anyone's guess.

I do think that when the rod was removed from "spare the rod, spoil the child", many parents seemed to just give up when their kids went apeshit.

Unready for real *work* of the "new age method" of talking and time-outs, they capitulate to the little power plays their kids put them through. They plant them in front of the TV and ply them with sweets and snacks until they shut the hell up. They breath a sigh of relief when they leave the house, and don't pester them about what they're doing or who they're doing it with.

In the best case you end up with a spoiled brat. In the worst case you end up with drug addled crimininals. Sometimes you even end up with Columbine.

I'm not saying that one side is right or wrong. Form your own opinion. The "paddle" was a crutch that carried it's own set of problems, to be sure.

- Rant Off

The paper could've been on any subject. I can't believe it deemed expulsion. But I do agree with the squidster on parenting.... It's hard work, but well worth the effort 1,000,000,000,000 fold. (I would've added more zeroes, but you get the point)

I believe I have found out what happened here thanks to the Fark forum.

1. Guy applies to LeMoyne College (private, Jesuit school) education program.
2. Guy is accepted on a conditional basis.
3. Guy writes papers espousing views (rejection of multiculturalism/embracing corporal punishment)that are opposed to the college's teaching philosophies as well as the state in which he was trying to get certified to teach in (New York).
4. Guy is up for review - does not cut the mustard ALONG WITH ALMOST HALF OF THE CONDITIONAL EDUCATION STUDENTS AT LEMOYNE.
5. Guy decides to be an asshat about it.

There was an article in the Syracuse Sun Times about this supposedly expelled student but I can't find it now. I did find it funny that the article had no statements from the school... almost as if they didn't ask anyone.

So once again we have a case of a college student making stuff up when he couldn't make the grade.