Posted on 05/11/2002 9:04:36 AM PDT by Vidalia
School Orders Student: Act Gay or Flunk
A class at Lakeland Community College in Ohio was forced to wear a pink triangle for a day to symbolize homosexual "pride." A student who objected faced expulsion.
"It's a moral issue I have," he told News Channel 5 in Cleveland this week. "I pay tuition to come to this school. I shouldn't have to defend my moral issues."
So the student, not identified by the station, went to the taxpayer-supported educrat in charge of the class on criminal justice. "I asked, 'What if a student were to feel uncomfortable with this - would there be an alternate assignment?' She said no."
An honors student, he got an "F" and was going to be expelled.
Why wasn't he offered a backup assignment? "I think if the situation were easy, it wouldn't have been part of the curriculum," said Lakeland Community College educrat Barbara Grano.
Only when the TV station intervened did the publicity make the educrats back off. The "teacher" apologized and waived the ridiculous assignment.
"I was thrilled," the student's mother told News Channel 5. "Here's a young man who stood up for himself, and it worked."
And the arrogant left-wing thought police who are ruining America's government schools still can't understand why people want school choice.
How would you classify the forcing, against his will, a child to act like a homosexual when he knows it is wrong?
The forcing of another to act in such a manner with consequences of failure in the class is brainwashing...aggravated rape of a child's mind and thought processes.
Student Told To Support Gay Rights Or Get An 'F' by Freeper "NativeNewYorker".
Way to go!
Now if this student wanted to have a little fun, he could have REALLY acted gay around campus while wearing the triangle, if ya know what I mean.
I wonder how the PC crowd at the school who came up with this lamebrained assignment would have responded to that. HEHEHE!
Plus, this student is an adult, is he not?
Don't get me wrong, I think what happened here is totally wrong, and totally offensive.
And I really don't think the government should be running schools, especially colleges.
But the idiot here is the student, who is choosing to pay tuition to go to this moronic community college.
He would be better off learning how to be a cabinetmaker, or HVAC dude, or taking correspondence courses from the University of London. They would be cheaper alternatives.
Or even reading the "Great Books" in a public library would be a better school for life.
It amazes me that these silly colleges stay alive.
How do they con people into giving them money in return for a totally bogus education?
If the students here would vote with their feet, the school would die, as it probably should do.
Hey, just when do the nationalist socialists nannys consider people an adult capable of free thought and rational choice making?
Emily Littella knows..."...Aw, never mind!"...
But when people line up, pay tuition, sit in class, take the exams these Bozos write, they are legitimizing them as teachers and scholars. They are neither.
No way are you going to shut down an "entitlement" the size of this community college. Too many persons in the trough.
But for crying out loud, it would quickly fail as a school if the students left the school.
Then it could become something more meaningful and useful to society, like a paintball facility.
Regards and thanks for your comment, with which I totally agree.
Don't get me wrong, what is going on here at the community college really is brainwashing, and, from my point of view, only slightly less reprehensible that that foisted on a slightly more captive audience at a public high school or elementary school.
My hairsplitting was not intended to contradict you.
You are totally right on on this post, and I do not mean to argue with you, rather, to supplement your attack on the school with the 'caveat emptor' angle.
Regards, caddie.
The light of public attention on these insulated college educrat bully's playing head games and pushing Marxist and homosexual agendas at our young men and women is the best thing we can do to attack this misuse and abuse of the educational system, especially in community colleges where some of the money to fund the school comes from state coffers paid for with tax money.
I would also like to see students throw the 'tolerance and diversity' mantra right back in the faces of the socialist morons that try to use that line to force-feed anti-American, amoral garbage to students, disguised as education. Where's the 'tolerance' for Christian values that see homosexuality as the sin the bible says it is?
Make the educrats answer that one and put their 'tolerance' creed into practice by acknowledging and respecting others moral values that find homosexuality repulsive behavior and have no wish to defend, excuse and even embrace it, as the student featured in the article was forced to do, on pain of being expelled if he didn't comply.
This was a small but important victory for real tolerance, even if the moron educats at Lakeland Community College don't realize it.
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