And on the Education Front ... (Barack Obama, speech, private school, examples)

[nononsenseguy]

Bravery, as one student takes on the liberal Leftist faculty and administration at University of Wisconsin, Madison:

Dear Graduate Director Prof. Kantrowitz,
As you are probably aware, all new TAs in the History Department are required to attend one orientation session, two TA training sessions, and two diversity sessions. Yesterday (Friday, September 20th), we new TAs attended the first of the diversity sessions. To be quite blunt, I was appalled. What we were given, under the rubric of “diversity,” was an avalanche of insinuations, outright accusations, and suffocating political indoctrination (or, as some of the worksheets revealingly put it, “re-education”) entirely unbecoming a university of our stature.

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and students at probably every other public institution of higher education in this country, have long since grown accustomed to incessant leftism. It is in the very air that we breathe. Bascom Hill, for example, is roped off and the university is shut down so that Barack Obama (D), Mark Pocan (D), and Tammy Baldwin (D) can deliver campaign speeches before election day. (The university kindly helped direct student traffic to these campaign events by sending out a mass e-mail encouraging the student body to go to the Barack Obama for President website and click “I’m In for Barack!” in order to attend.) Marxist diatribes denouncing Christianity, Christians, the United States, and conservatives (I am happy to provide as many examples of this as might be required) are assigned as serious scholarship in seminars.

Read the full letter here: After Told He

Perhaps the tide may yet turn in America. There are some hopeful signs.

[skoro]

One of the beauties of life in America is the freedom to make choices. While I agree with the letter's author that there's far too much wishy-washyness and touchy-feely crap in education, that young man certainly has other options available to him. Perhaps he'd be more comfortable as a TA at a different college.

[Kamsack]

Yeah UW Madison is not the place for him.

[kidkaos2]

Originally Posted by skoro

One of the beauties of life in America is the freedom to make choices. While I agree with the letter's author that there's far too much wishy-washyness and touchy-feely crap in education, that young man certainly has other options available to him. Perhaps he'd be more comfortable as a TA at a different college.

Perhaps. But perhaps he shouldn't have to be more comfortable somewhere else. What we're talking about here isn't a private school. It is a public school. We keep religion out of state schools. We should keep politics out of them also.

[EmeraldCityWanderer]

Sounds like he doesn't want to do the requirements of the job, like treat all students that attend the school like other human beings, and claims that's against his faith and views. He was hired to do a job, and if he can't do what is required by his employer...find another job.

I would certainly love to see all of this horrible training material he quotes, yet never seems to provide. He does know you can scan documents in and attach them to emails right? Just in my own experience reading junk like this I would put money on the material physically existing...but saying a far different thing than he reads into it.

[Georgianbelle]

A job should not require indoctrination into any political belief. Today many universities lean to the left. Not everyone is liberal, and everyone's politics should be his/her own business.