Anti-spanking zealots won again - student expelled for writing paper

"While students are guaranteed the freedom of speech, LeMoyne College's
recent actions against a student have raised questions of whether or not
academic papers are the place to exercise this right.

LeMoyne College expelled Scott McConnell, a student from its Masters of
Education program, for writing a paper in which he advocated the use of
corporal punishment in schools, he said.

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."



http://www.dailyorange.com/news/2005...840196.shtml#1

Doan

After the patriot act, the first amendment has been trimmed in small
degrees. Safety of the many comes before the rights of individuals. Yet
America, and our leaders, are surely deeply committed to the first
amendment. sure, there are venues that are more appropriate, there is
Time, Place, Manner.

Perhaps George and Laura at home should not have spanked, but right or
wrong, they did. My parents were not exactly tyrants, but they did
believe in exercising authority, and in our home that included
"smiting" on the backside.

But if you look at the bible, there are far more calls to compassion
and mercy than there are exhorting spanking. God loves those he
chastens, but that refers to instruction, and not necessarily to
smiting, swatting. When God uses his scourge, it is because we as his
children are NOTHOS (in Greek, undisciplined, unparented, ie *******s
or orphans). In latin the word Discipline refers primarily to teaching.

God's scourge is sickness, or war, pestilence, poverty, or death.

White man religion tries to obscure the simple religion of the heart
with convoluted dogma and theology. What ever happened to aboriginal
good will toward one another, toward the brotherhood of man, the spirit
in the sky.

Even the white man's own bible says "do unto others as you would have
them do unto you."

"envy not the oppressor"

"learn none of the oppressors ways."

perhaps my mother was a disciplinarian, but hopefully I can learn from
what she was trying to TEACH.

She may have spanked me, but I am thankful she was not an oppressor.

Happy mothers day .......

"robin" wrote:
After the patriot act, the first amendment has been trimmed in small
degrees. Safety of the many comes before the rights of individuals. Yet
America, and our leaders, are surely deeply committed to the first
amendment. sure, there are venues that are more appropriate, there is
Time, Place, Manner.

Perhaps George and Laura at home should not have spanked, but right or
wrong, they did. My parents were not exactly tyrants, but they did
believe in exercising authority, and in our home that included
"smiting" on the backside.

But if you look at the bible, there are far more calls to compassion
and mercy than there are exhorting spanking. God loves those he
chastens, but that refers to instruction, and not necessarily to
smiting, swatting. When God uses his scourge, it is because we as his
children are NOTHOS (in Greek, undisciplined, unparented, ie *******s
or orphans). In latin the word Discipline refers primarily to teaching.

God's scourge is sickness, or war, pestilence, poverty, or death.

White man religion tries to obscure the simple religion of the heart
with convoluted dogma and theology. What ever happened to aboriginal
good will toward one another, toward the brotherhood of man, the spirit
in the sky.

Even the white man's own bible says "do unto others as you would have
them do unto you."

"envy not the oppressor"

"learn none of the oppressors ways."

perhaps my mother was a disciplinarian, but hopefully I can learn from
what she was trying to TEACH.

She may have spanked me, but I am thankful she was not an oppressor.

Happy mothers day .......

Eloquent. Thanks, and the Grandmother smile down upon you.
(-:
Llono

--
"Never it takes the brain to supervise."
(-proverb)