Posted on 08/26/2004 5:43:11 AM PDT by antifem
BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS Teacher to class: 'F--- God' College says professor owes Christian student apology
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 26, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Does academic freedom allow college professors to offend their students with profanity?
The question is coming up in Illinois, as an instructor is under fire for displaying the message "F--- God" to his class.
Bruce LeBlanc, shown here in 2002, allegedly used his blackboards for profane message (photo: Moline Dispatch)
According to the Moline Dispatch, Bob Stotler, a 30-year-old student at Black Hawk College, filed a complaint after his sociology teacher, Bruce LeBlanc, displayed the two-word statement.
LeBlanc reportedly revealed two blackboards at the front of his class, with the F-word written on the left one and "God" written on the right one.
"I don't even remember what went on for the rest of the class," Stotler told the Dispatch, saying he was too upset to pay further attention.
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Stotler says LeBlanc had confronted him about being Christian, conservative and Republican on his first day in class in January.
"He's a lot liberal, and I'm a lot conservative," Stotler said. "He was preaching his leftist ideas like they were facts."
The college's advisory committee has issued a report based on Stotler's complaint, finding LeBlanc violated the school's harassment policy, noting the conduct "shows hostility or aversion toward an individual because of his/her religion."
In addition, the committee said LeBlanc violated the policy "in that he engaged in negative stereotyping of the complainant, Mr. Stotler, on the first day of class when he made an assumptive comment about the student's religious beliefs during class.''
The report recommends LeBlanc apologize to Stotler and meet with a dean of the school to review the class syllabus and analyze the complexity of the language used.
Stotler told the Dispatch he can't comment while he's "challenging the action through the collective-bargaining agreement."
But two years ago, he discussed academic freedom with the paper, noting it gives professors a chance to provide information in a way that addresses classroom dynamics.
"Dynamics can range from conservative students who need a push to open their minds to other possibilities to extremely liberal students who need to examine more conservative approaches," noted the paper of LeBlanc's comments.
"From an institutional perspective, Black Hawk College's board of trustees and administrators value academic freedom, and students get a high quality educational experience," LeBlanc said in 2002.
According to the college's website, LeBlanc is a professor of psychology as well as sociology, and is also a member of its speaker's bureau.
Among LeBlanc's presentations is one called "Sexual Minorities: The Science of Sexual Orientation," which explores the science of sexual orientation and its application to the current debates regarding sexual minorities.
Karen Harris
Karen Harris, a psychology professor who is president of the Western Illinois University chapter of the University Professors of Illinois, told the Dispatch while professors rely on academic freedom to engage students, teachers should be careful not to go too far.
"As professionals we have a responsibility, and it's a delicate line we walk between stirring emotions and fulfilling our professional responsibility, which is to contribute to the educational process," she said.
Link?
Unlike Kerry, Cleland, the Clintons, Howard Dean, etc. he's willing to directly state what his philosophy is and what he's all about.
Thank you for ripping off the mask, Mr. LeBlanc.
What ever happened to teachers...TEACHING the facts?
Fire the bum.
Mr Leblanc is nothing more than a sexual intellectual.
Being a jerk and profaning God's name is part of our country's freedom of speech. This certainly changes the perspective of the article for me.
The report recommends LeBlanc apologize to Stotler and meet with a dean of the school to review the class syllabus and analyze the complexity of the language used.
The "complexity of the language"? That just HAS to be edu-speak.
Stotler told the Dispatch he can't comment while he's "challenging the action through the collective-bargaining agreement."
But two years ago, he discussed academic freedom with the paper, noting it gives professors a chance to provide information in a way that addresses classroom dynamics.
"Dynamics can range from conservative students who need a push to open their minds to other possibilities to extremely liberal students who need to examine more conservative approaches," noted the paper of LeBlanc's comments.
Notice how the "conservative students" need to push open their minds, whereas the "extremely liberal" ones need only to examine a different approach?
According to the college's website, LeBlanc is a professor of psychology as well as sociology, and is also a member of its speaker's bureau.
It appears LeBlanc got caught using a bit of his psychology in the wrong way.
Yeah, A .......know it all.
Very interesting way to word this comment. IOW's, conservative students are closed minded and need to be forcefully educated (err, re-educated) that other possibilities exist outside of the conservative framework. As if forcefully exposing them to liberal ideology will enlighten them. While liberal students just need to understand their conservative counterpart via examination. You know so they can be better understood. Sort of like examining three toed sloths to see if one can garner any insights to broaden their liberal landscape.
Students to College: "We want our money back."
Alumni to College: "We want our money back."
Corporate Donors to College: "We have decided to contribute elsewhere."
My son just started back to class.
I noticed he had written on top of one syllabus for a particular class the words "liberal scum."
I asked him what he meant, and he said it's easy to determine the political bent of the teacher by how much Bush-bashing goes on the first day of class.
Two of his classes this term started out with Bush-bashing.
His math and science class didn't, but his Ethics and World History class did. Public state college, our tax dollars are paying these professors.
Reminds me of a joke.
On the first day of class, college professor loudly proclaimed, "God is dead! If he is alive, I will give him 5 minutes to knock me off this stool!" and he sat down. After 4 minutes a young former Marine got up, walked to the front of the class punched the professor right in the nose, sending him somersaulting off the stool to crash onto the floor. The young man just said, "God was busy, He sent me instead."
'"Dynamics can range from conservative students who need a push to open their minds to other possibilities to extremely liberal students who need to examine more conservative approaches," noted the paper of LeBlanc's comments.'
It is because I HAD an open mind and seen both BOTH ways of life and living that I made a logical, sensible, principled and reasonable conclusion to be a Conservative. A Liberal only keeps an open mind without ANY type of thought process.
yes indeedy ...exactly what he is....and what they are....
Please be politically correct and don't offend anyone--unless, of course, if they're Christian. Then anything goes.
And no one got a pic of this on their cell phone...Man, a picture would be sweet.
Thus proving math and science professors are smarter. ;-)
(Sorry, couldn't resist. I teach math.)
"sexual intellectual"
Good one.. (I assume the first word is "the act" and the second word is head?)
That is BS. If the student had held up a sign saying "F**k Liberalism, Marx and Darwin", he'd probably have been thrown out of class and all this "professor" needs to do is say "oops, sorry"!?
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