BBC Rrofessor makes students sign pledge to vote obama and dem =ticket!

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

http://government.brevardtimes.com/2012/09/bcc-profesor-makes-students-pledge-for.html

MELBOURNE, Florida -- The scandal at the Brevard Community College Melbourne Campus involving a college algebra associate professor who allegedly asked students during class time on campus to pledge their support for President Barack Obama was front page news early this morning on Foxnews.com.

Despite the national attention, the liberal-leaning local FLORIDA TODAY newspaper only used a small headline of the article further down on its website, opting instead to top headline a Matt Reed opinion article that does not address the scandal. UPDATE: At around 10:30 a.m. today, the story became the headliner on FLORIDA TODAY.

Brevard County residents, who lean heavily conservative on Florida's Space Coast, were quick to voice their outrage on the BCC Facebook page upon hearing of the alleged political activity.
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This is the kind of people we face folks. They use any and all tactics to win. No honor and corrupt as hell. She should be fired!-Tyr

[Kathianne]

http://government.brevardtimes.com/2012/09/bcc-profesor-makes-students-pledge-for.html

MELBOURNE, Florida -- The scandal at the Brevard Community College Melbourne Campus involving a college algebra associate professor who allegedly asked students during class time on campus to pledge their support for President Barack Obama was front page news early this morning on Foxnews.com.

Despite the national attention, the liberal-leaning local FLORIDA TODAY newspaper only used a small headline of the article further down on its website, opting instead to top headline a Matt Reed opinion article that does not address the scandal. UPDATE: At around 10:30 a.m. today, the story became the headliner on FLORIDA TODAY.

Brevard County residents, who lean heavily conservative on Florida's Space Coast, were quick to voice their outrage on the BCC Facebook page upon hearing of the alleged political activity.
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This is the kind of people we face folks. They use any and all tactics to win. No honor and corrupt as hell. She should be fired!-Tyr

This happened after I figured I'd stop with starting more threads. I was interested so found some stuff.

Oh yeah, she's suspended, but why is this Obama group soliciting this?:

College suspends professor for allegedly attempting to force students to vote for Obama (http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4364)


College suspends professor for allegedly attempting to force students to vote for Obama


By Oliver Darcy, on Sep 17, 2012

A college professor has been placed on leave after she allegedly forced her class to sign a pledge to vote for President Obama in the upcoming elections.

Early last week Professor Sharon Sweet at Brevard Community College (BCC) allegedly told students to sign a pledge that reads: “I pledge to vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket.”

A college professor has been placed on leave after she allegedly forced her class to sign a pledge to vote for President Obama in the 2012 elections.

The pledge was printed off of GottaVote.org, a website funded by the Obama campaign.

University administrators said they learned about the incident late Thursday afternoon and launched an investigation, after they received a phone call from a concerned parent...

Sweet’s actions may have also violated Florida’s election laws.

Section 104.31, of Title IX in chapter 104, states that “no officer or employee of the state... shall... use his or her official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or nomination of officer or influencing another person’s vote or affecting the result thereof.”

[Kathianne]

Here's a 'warning' to professors from a well respected educator site:

Beware of Partisan Politics in the Classroom - The Conversation - The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2012/08/28/beware-of-partisan-politics-in-the-classroom/)


Beware of Partisan Politics in the Classroom

August 28, 2012, 6:46 pm

By Peter Wood

As faculty members at Ohio State last week double-checked their syllabi, glanced at their rosters, and ran through the usual routines for the start of fall courses, some of them found a surprise in their e-mail in boxes. A senior English professor invited his colleagues to open their classrooms in the weeks ahead to organizers in the Obama campaign. They would first encourage students to register to vote and then, if the instructors were willing, encourage students to volunteer for the Obama campaign.

But don’t take my word for it. Here is the memo, from Brian McHale, with the subject line “How to turn students into voters”:

Colleagues,

I’ve been in touch with a couple of campus organizers for the Obama campaign, who have asked me to pass along to all of you a request for access to your classes in the next few weeks. If you were willing, they would send along a volunteer to make a pitch to your students about registering to vote. This would involve five minutes or less of class time, at the beginning or end of class (whichever you preferred), and the volunteer could make him/herself available after the end of class to sign up students who wanted to register on the spot.

If you were willing, the volunteers could also take a couple of extra minutes to see whether they could interest any of your students in volunteering for the Obama campaign themselves. If you weren’t comfortable with this, however, you’d only need to say so, and the volunteer would limit his/her presentation to voter registration, and leave the recruitment pitch out; it would be your call.

I don’t need to tell you that voter registration is absolutely the key to this election, not least of all in the state of Ohio. (I don’t need to tell you this because it has been made so manifestly plain by those who have been doing their best in several states, including ours, to limit access to the polls in various ways.) I hope you can see your way to helping bump up the voter registration and turnout among this key constituency—our students.

The easiest way to arrange for volunteers to visit your classrooms is to contact Natalie Raps or Matt Caffrey directly: [address removed] and [address removed]. Alternatively, you could contact me, and I’ll put you in touch with them. Either way, please do it!

Democracy: love it or lose it.

Note that those two campaign workers, Natalie Raps and Matt Caffrey, are representatives of the official Obama campaign in Ohio. Their e-mail addresses (deleted here) are for Organizing for America, Ohio Headquarters. Caffrey, according to a pro-Obama Web site, quit his job in March to become a paid “campaign field organizer” for Obama in Columbus.

Raps and Caffrey, in other words, aren’t just some student enthusiasts who happened to find a kindred soul in Professor McHale. They are bona fide representatives of the Obama campaign.

Most states discourage faculty members at public institutions from using their classrooms for partisan political purposes, and I doubt Ohio is an exception. College courses at public universities generally should not be used to troll for votes or campaign volunteers. In any case, Ohio State has its own particular rules (see here) that encourage faculty members to “differentiate carefully between official activities as teachers and personal activities as citizens, and to act accordingly.”

But never mind the rules. The whole idea of professors’ subjecting their students to this sort of cajolery has the fragrance of abuse.

The pressure would be the same regardless of the political affiliation of the candidate. Rousting students for Romney would be as wrong as booking them for Obama. The point is that the college classroom should be reserved for the subjects that the students signed up for, not for the political enthusiasms of their teachers. The student who enrolls in first-year English composition ought to be learning to compose essays, not campaign fliers.

Professor McHale, contacted by one of my colleagues in Ohio, freely vouched for the authenticity of his e-mail. Yup, he wrote it. I doubt very much that he is the only faculty member at Ohio State who was approached by the Obama campaign with this nifty idea, or that the Obama campaign confined this effort to recruit student volunteers to Ohio State—as important as Ohio is to the November election.

My hunch that there is more to this is based on what happened in 2008, when the Obama campaign rather openly pitched the idea that colleges and universities should award academic credit to students who volunteered for the campaign.

I blew the whistle on an instance of that at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which abruptly canceled a campaign-for-credit offer by some academics at the college. But it turned out that the same thing was going on at other universities.

I haven’t seen the campaign-for-credit scam at work in the Obama campaign this year, but maybe that just means I haven’t looked hard enough. The insertion of campaign operatives into college classrooms is clearly a branch from the same tree.

Professor McHale has performed an inadvertent service in his naïve willingness to put this scheme into writing. For other faculty members tempted to take up the idea, a few words of caution. First, you would be abusing your authority. Faculty colleagues will feel pressured to go along, and students, always fearful about their grades, will feel even more pressure to conform. Second, you would be further politicizing higher education, which is an institution that is already leaking public support because its leadership so often fails to distinguish legitimate education from ideological advocacy.

I’d like to see Ohio State’s president, Gordon Gee, intervene to make sure that this fall the students of OSU aren’t subjected to this sort of political pressure. The bigger issue, however, is whether the Obama campaign plans to continue down this path. It ought to direct the campaign staff in Ohio and every other state never to set foot in a college classroom.

I suspect my admonition will have limited effect. Maybe this one will work better. I am president of the National Association of Scholars, a nonpartisan group that advocates for openness and integrity in American higher education. I invite any student at Ohio State or any other college or university to e-mail me with the details of any instance in which a faculty member pressures his class by devoting regular class time to the sorts of activities described in Professor McHale’s memo.

I also invite any faculty member who is invited or pressured to engage in this sort of mischief to let me know. NAS will post a public log of the universities, courses, and professors, along with other pertinent data. I welcome reports of abuses by Republicans as well as Democrats or members of other parties.

Maybe some good will come out of this yet. Professor McHale closed his memo with the words “Democracy: love it or lose it.” It’s a civic-minded sentiment, but he seems confused. We don’t preserve democracy by undermining the independence and integrity of higher education. Preserving democracy sometimes requires the sterner stuff that it takes to say no to your political pals.

Peter Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars.

[Kathianne]

I detest educators that abuse their position.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Here's a 'warning' to professors from a well respected educator site:

Beware of Partisan Politics in the Classroom - The Conversation - The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2012/08/28/beware-of-partisan-politics-in-the-classroom/)

Laws governing mere mortals do not apply to his high majesty King Obama nor to those blinded asshats that aid him. Watch for massive voter fraud this election. If he wins he'll cover it up like the millions in illegal foreign campaign contributions from his previous successful run! If he loses, big deal , he'll blame it on others like he has done from the start on anything negative. And he knows he will get by with it.
What we have is a sorry dishonorable son of a bitch in charge now.
Guess who put him in charge, that's right ignorant, blinded asshats , dems and other assorted fooools..

Every teacher actively in their classroom stumping for a candidate should be fired!
If the kids need guidance in politics let their parents fill that place. If in college let them make up their own minds.-Tyr

[Kathianne]

Laws governing mere mortals do not apply to his high majesty King Obama nor to those blinded asshats that aid him. Watch for massive voter fraud this election. If he wins he'll cover it up like the millions in illegal foreign campaign contributions from his previous successful run! If he loses, big deal , he'll blame it on others like he has done from the start on anything negative. And he knows he will get by with it.
What we have is a sorry dishonorable son of a bitch in charge now.
Guess who put him in charge, that's right ignorant, blinded asshats , dems and other assorted fooools..

Every teacher actively in their classroom stumping for a candidate should be fired!
If the kids need guidance in politics let their parents fill that place. If in college let them make up their own minds.-Tyr

In the article I posted from The Chronicle, I saw a warning to teachers to avoid partisanship and getting pulled into advocating anything beyond exercising their right to vote. Good advice.

Nothing about kings, nothing about asshats.

That Obama's folks were mentioned in the news for the FL jr college professor, now on leave, that will be dealt with if Obama loses.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

In the article I posted from The Chronicle, I saw a warning to teachers to avoid partisanship and getting pulled into advocating anything beyond exercising their right to vote. Good advice.

Nothing about kings, nothing about asshats.
That Obama's folks were mentioned in the news for the FL jr college professor, now on leave, that will be dealt with if Obama loses.

I like to add a bit of color to my posts. King obama and his campaign will pull out all the stops. His followers care nothing about breaking laws because they believe themselves serving a higher calling which was my point in making those comments. -Tyr

[gabosaurus]

I don't understand how this stuff even happens.
In our school system, faculty and staff are not allowed to discuss political issues or endorse candidates in the course of our jobs. We can't even have political stickers on our cars if we park them on school property.
I hear all the time about radical political activist professors on college campuses, but I never had one during the six years I was at Cal. I suppose I took too many academic classes and not enough elective ones. It's difficult to work political references into a quantitative analysis class.

[Kathianne]

I don't understand how this stuff even happens.
In our school system, faculty and staff are not allowed to discuss political issues or endorse candidates in the course of our jobs. We can't even have political stickers on our cars if we park themher on school property.
I hear all the time about radical political activist professors on college campuses, but I never had one during the six years I was at Cal. I suppose I took too many academic classes and not enough elective ones. It's difficult to work political references into a quantitative analysis class.

It's college, not high school.

Think that teachers in your school, can and do put up posters for both candidates. While you are not in the class room, an average HS SS teacher will address their perceptions of the candidates positions, for right or wrong. That the teacher may be biased? Oh well.

You may not have the bumper sticker, but the SS department has you covered.

So may the English, Math, and Science teachers.

[Voted4Reagan]

Back in 2008, My son was given an assignment in school. The assignment was to give the reasons he felt Barack Obama would be a good President.

NO MENTION OR OPTION of allowing the Students to write about JOHN MCCAIN Was given or allowed. They were told to write about JUST OBAMA.

My son told me about this assignment and I told him to write what he felt was the truth..

My son wrote that he thought Obama would NOT MAKE A GOOD PRESIDENT. He wrote that:

OBAMA WOULD RUN UP MASSIVE DEFICIT SPENDING

HE WROTE THAT UNEMPLOYMENT WOULD REMAIN HIGH

HE WROTE THAT TAXES WOULD INCREASE

HE WROTE THAT GASOLINE PRICES WOULD SKYROCKET

HE WROTE THAT OBAMA WOULD SLASH MILITARY SPENDING

HE WROTE THAT OBAMA WOULD NOT CREATE THE GREEN JOBS THAT HE PROMISED.

He recieved an "F" from the Teacher...

I walked into the School, With the paper and the original assignment sheet and went straight into the Principals office and said if the grade were not changed to reflect the content of the writing and the obvious BIAS OF THE ASSIGNMENT was not addressed that I would forward copies of all of it to the Local and Major Media calling into question the OBVIOUS INDOCTRINATION that the school was trying to impress upon the kids.

The grade was Changed to an "A".. As the Content was well researched and cited.

If this isnt an example of Liberal Bias in our Schools what is?

[Gaffer]

Back in 2008, My son was given an assignment in school. The assignment was to give the reasons he felt Barack Obama would be a good President.

NO MENTION OR OPTION of allowing the Students to write about JOHN MCCAIN Was given or allowed. They were told to write about JUST OBAMA.

My son told me about this assignment and I told him to write what he felt was the truth..

My son wrote that he thought Obama would NOT MAKE A GOOD PRESIDENT. He wrote that:

OBAMA WOULD RUN UP MASSIVE DEFICIT SPENDING

HE WROTE THAT UNEMPLOYMENT WOULD REMAIN HIGH

HE WROTE THAT TAXES WOULD INCREASE

HE WROTE THAT GASOLINE PRICES WOULD SKYROCKET

HE WROTE THAT OBAMA WOULD SLASH MILITARY SPENDING

HE WROTE THAT OBAMA WOULD NOT CREATE THE GREEN JOBS THAT HE PROMISED.

He recieved an "F" from the Teacher...

I walked into the School, With the paper and the original assignment sheet and went straight into the Principals office and said if the grade were not changed to reflect the content of the writing and the obvious BIAS OF THE ASSIGNMENT was not addressed that I would forward copies of all of it to the Local and Major Media calling into question the OBVIOUS INDOCTRINATION that the school was trying to impress upon the kids.

The grade was Changed to an "A".. As the Content was well researched and cited.

If this isnt an example of Liberal Bias in our Schools what is?

Not to mention it was prophetic. Though it didn't take much to prophesize that back then.

[Voted4Reagan]

Not to mention it was prophetic. Though it didn't take much to prophesize that back then.

Not bad for a 12 year old at the time in 2008....

He's a Smart kid.... and I didnt prompt him