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January 31, 2005

PLANET MORONIA: Why LeMoyne College Has a Plank in Its Eye

College expels man over paper favoring corporal punishment for school children

 

 

 

-Martin Kite-Powell

 

This struck me as something absolutely unbelievable – it is to my knowledge one of the most egregious examples of so-called “political correctness” since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

 

The Daily Orange says that a New York Jesuit College has expelled one of its students simply for advocating the use of spanking as a disciplinary tool for students who become uncontrollable. This is a practice followed in many if not most American primary schools and supported by the overwhelmingly vast majority of parents.

 

However, LeMoyne College is so out there on the fringe of extremist, socially autistic views, they consider the mere support for such a practice an offense punishable by expulsion without notice either after or prior to the fact.

 

This ridiculous example of real intolerance by these hardliners moved me to the degree that I decided to tell them just what I thought:

 

 

 

You guys need a spanking. But as long as you receive no public money, you are entitled to be as apparently small-minded and moronic as you wish.

 

"’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.” (Daily Orange)

 

So teaching openness to different points of view is one of those "do-as-I-say-and-not-as-I-do sort of things for your faculty.

 

Even sans the matter of funding we certainly hope that Scott McConnell sues you into a quivering mass of bankruptcy, since he had no reasonable expectation of being cast away Soviet-style for simply supporting what the vast majority of Americans agree is perfectly reasonable and normal as a form of childhood discipline administered in a loving "commitment" and "respect" for their bright potential as human beings - a form of discipline which apparently your fat bottoms so badly needed during your early years.

 

Cheers.

 

 

 

If you’d like to share your thoughts with these pointy-headed thought-nazis, follow this link to their comments page (or you can either send an e-mail to webmaster@lemoyne.edu or call their office at 315/445.4565) and let it fly (please remain snappish but civil - we wish not to lower ourselves to their level of barbarity). Since opinions which differ from theirs obviously greatly irritate them, we should be able to drive them to despondency. Have fun, kids!

 

 

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Posted by Martin at January 31, 2005 07:30 PM

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Posted by: Palooka at January 31, 2005 09:10 PM

Posted by: Blogbat at January 31, 2005 09:26 PM