Education Authories Abuse Their Power

[Figleaf]

If a student say any disparaging remarks about any students belonging to a different culture....I bet Figleaf will be the first to demand it be dealt with harshly!

Why don't you ask Figleaf instead of wagering in the dark? Sort of like this...

Betsy: "Hey Figleaf ... What about if a student said disparaging things about another student?"

Figleaf: "Hmmm ... If it was in school or in relation to a school activity, then it could be something the school authorities should act on. But if it is not in or around school, then school authorities would have no business intervening, and affected persons should seek elsewhere for their remedy."

[M.Dancer]

That is ridiculous, M.Dancer. Would you volunteer to live in an authoritarian state so that people would be bound to " show the proper respect " , no matter where they are or who they are with?

But what about that teacher who was posting on a message board??? I think he said something about a controversial issue (I can't remember if it was about SSM)....and he had lost his job for that.

He was just expressing his own personal views in a public board....not in a school room!

We are already in an "authoritarian state"....or really getting there. Except we're just being selective about whom we'd want to enforce our authority on.

If the teacher in this hypothetical, was posting on a message board about topics that had nothing to do with the personalities of whom he works with, then that's okay. But if the teacher is posting libelous inuendo about his co-workers than I would say he or she should be discilplined.

[Argus]

This certainly belongs in this topic. It seems that schools all over Canada are showing Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" to kids as fact. One student had to sit through it 4 separate times in 4 different classes, all accompanied by eager teachers telling them this was the one and only truth.

Why is Al Gore's movie required classroom viewing?

James E. Hansen, a NASA scientist and one of Mr. Gore's advisors, agreed the movie has "imperfections" and "technical flaws." About An Inconvenient Truth's connection of rising hurricane activity to global warming - something refuted by storm experts - Mr. Hansen said, "we need to be more careful in describing the hurricane story than he is." Among other things, since the film's release last year, scientists have rejected Mr. Gore's claims that 2005 was the warmest year on record (temperatures have been receding since 1998), that polar bears are heading for extinction (their numbers are growing), that Antarctica is warming (interior temperature readings show cooling) and that sea levels will "rise 18 to 20 feet," swamping coastal cities (the International Panel on Climate Change predicts a few inches).

[Higgly]

This certainly belongs in this topic. It seems that schools all over Canada are showing Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" to kids as fact. One student had to sit through it 4 separate times in 4 different classes, all accompanied by eager teachers telling them this was the one and only truth.

Why is Al Gore's movie required classroom viewing?

Yeah, this was highlighted on the front page of the National Toast yesterday. Keep in mind this is the same newspaper that was urging us with all possible speed to join in the invasion of Iraq

[Argus]

This certainly belongs in this topic. It seems that schools all over Canada are showing Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" to kids as fact. One student had to sit through it 4 separate times in 4 different classes, all accompanied by eager teachers telling them this was the one and only truth.

Why is Al Gore's movie required classroom viewing?

Yeah, this was highlighted on the front page of the National Toast yesterday. Keep in mind this is the same newspaper that was urging us with all possible speed to join in the invasion of Iraq

non sequitur - a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it

[Higgly]

non sequitur - a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it

Not at all. It is an indication of what relevance should be placed on opinions put forward by the National Toast

[Argus]

non sequitur - a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it

Not at all. It is an indication of what relevance should be placed on opinions put forward by the National Toast

Perhaps you could point out where anyone asked your opinion? The fact you don't like the Post's editorial policies is utterly irrelevant to whether ideologically driven teachers ought to be showing a piece of unscientific propaganda as fact to captive child audiences.