LeMoyne College expels student for beliefs in paper

[Aristotle]

Good lord.

LeMoyne expels man over paper

The paper, written for a class on classroom management, originally earned McConnell an A-. However, when he attempted to enroll in classes for the spring semester, he found he couldn't.

The issues that this case raises are very complicated, said Joseph Shedd, chair of the teaching and leadership programs in Syracuse University's School of Education.

"There is no clean dividing line between a person's opinions and his or her ability to make responsible professional judgments," Shedd said in an e-mail.

"SU's teacher preparation faculty - and, I suspect, LeMoyne's - will defend any student's right to assert any position, so long as he or she demonstrates an openness to different points of view and a commitment to and respect for every one of the children he or she teaches," Shedd said.

[tharun]

I read the story.

That is the mot ridiculous thing I've ever heard regarding academic suppression. I can only assume the newspaper left something important out here. Otherwise.. you have some very very sad colleges/universities out there.

He wrote a paper, which somewhat supported (I bet he presented some criticisms if i had the paper to read ) corporal punishment which he himself had witnessed and experienced. I don't know whether this counts as political correctness or stupidity.

I cannot imagine any way he could have supported his argument which would have been so offensive that the relevant professors thought it unwise to continue educating him. In a nation of academics you yanks have some apparantely dumb-ass intellectuals.

-tharun

ps. And I have a lot of respect for American academics.