Professors' beliefs inevitably translate into strong support for controversial issues. Often when students are taught, no alternative views are offered to counterbalance the professor's political presentation and of students surveyed, many believe that agreeing with their professor's politics is necessary for good grades. When leftist preaching sees the world only in terms of race, sexual preference, class, and ethnicity, students are robbed of diverse perspectives that make a classical liberal arts education valuable.
This blog features observations from Randy Turner, a former teacher, newspaper reporter and editor. Send news items or comments to rturner229@hotmail.com
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Christian student's lawyers explain lawsuit
In today's Springfield News-Leader, Dee Wampler and Joseph Passanise, the attorneys who represented Christian student Emily Brooker in her lawsuit against Missouri State University and professor Frank Kauffman write about the lawsuit and why it was necessary:
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Again, don't have a problem with her disagreement of the class or the professor. I am glad that she felt comfortable taking a stand. I feel the classes involved should have stricken from her record and that she should have gotten her money back for the classes. I DO NOT feel that a settlement should have included money, payment of tuition and living expenses etc. That is tax payer money and she should not have expected or accepted that.
Randy have you ever listened to some of those early early morning classes on PBS courtesy of MSSU? Maybe you should.
Not all professors are liberal and it may surprise you to hear that conservative professors also preach their point of view to students during classtime.
Very few political issues turn out to be one-way streets. Liberal professors is not one of them.
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