This really annoys me.
Just want to run a quick compare and contrast of two stories. A Catholic school principal has been put “on leave” and is in danger of losing his job for allowing students to use 40 Days of Life activities as part of their community service requirement.
LifeSiteNews.com reports:
The principal at a Catholic school for K-8 students in Winnipeg has been put “on leave” after he promoted the 40 Days for Life campaign, the Winnepeg Archdiocese informed LifeSiteNews Friday.
Principal David Hood of Christ the King School had urged families to participate in the local 40 Days campaign in a school newsletter, and then told media on Tuesday he was considering participation in the vigil as a voluntary “official school activity,” whereby grade 7 and 8 students could satisfy their 10 hours of community service.
What kind of ridiculousness is this? What’s more Catholic than giving community service credit for praying outside an abortion clinic. And for this, the guy’s being shown the door?! Seriously?
Meanwhile, back in looney liberal land, a professor at a university in Michigan is pushing students to attend an Occupy Wall Street event for extra credit in their academic work.
Weasel Zippers reports:
A sociology professor at Northern Michigan University has purportedly offered her students extra credit for taking part in a local Occupy protest.
According to an email obtained by The Blaze, Professor Jeanne Lorentzen is offering students in her introductory sociology course 20 extra credit points if they attend an Occupy the Upper Peninsula demonstration with her on Saturday. Students who do not wish to attend the protest have the option of writing a 20-page term paper about a social movement to receive the same extra credit. Neither assignment is compulsory.
And guess what – the school seems pretty darn OK with essentially forcing students to attend the OWS event.
Catholics and pro-lifers better start sticking to their guns because the other side surely will. We’ve been bending over for so long we’ve forgotten what it is to stand up. I’m so tired of it.
October 17, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Liberalism has entered Catholic schools. And we all know that it is a mental disorder.
I'll repost an excellent illustration of this entitled "You Might Be a Liberal, If…"
October 17, 2011 at 6:05 pm
I could not agree more. I am sick of it, too.
October 17, 2011 at 6:38 pm
That's my alma mater! And, yes, this is disgusting. For some reason, rampant liberalism is socially acceptable. However, devout Catholicism is not.
October 17, 2011 at 6:38 pm
I find this a cautionary tale for all Americans … in Canada, Catholic schools receive government funding … this "leave" is an outgrowth of the Catholic school taking the government money, and the strings that come with it. So for Americans, the lesson is to be very very very wary of anything smacking of government money … be it tax credits, tuition assistance, etc. etc. … it will be interesting to see how the Catholic schools end up being affected by the various tuition voucher programs.
October 17, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Here, Here, Anonymous @1:38 PM!
Seemingly, if one should pay unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's, one ought not to subject unto Ceaser what is not to be subjected to Ceaser.
October 18, 2011 at 1:04 pm
10 hours service? Holy cow, my 8th grader has to do 30 – 15 with the church and 15 community (easily done as a Boy Scout). Fortunately, the DRE is pro-life and gave him an hour for doing the Life Chain, 2 hours for sitting in our 40 Days for Life booth at a local festival, and if I ever get him over there, he'll get time for praying at the abortion clinic. He only gets a half hour for altar serving during Sunday Mass.
October 18, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Now you're just being disingenuous. How does extra credit work count as "forcing" anyone to do anything? If the students are keeping up with their work, they don't need the extra credit to begin with, and if they do need the extra credit and don't wish to attend a protest, they can write a paper instead.
I really fail to see how any part of that is forcing anything.
October 19, 2011 at 3:13 pm
Personal Failure wrote:
Now you're just being disingenuous. How does extra credit work count as "forcing" anyone to do anything?
All right: for the sake of argument, let's suppose that you're the type of student who simply never has a bad test, would never try to eke out one more thousandth of a percentage point in a competition for valedictorian, and/or would have no use for extra credit, whatsoever. Do you not see that the teacher is promoting a blatantly political (and partisan political) activity, using public funds? This isn't a mere tour of the capital; this is participation in a grossly partisan, dangerous (theft, unsanitary conditions, and violence are getting quite common in the pig-sties known as the "protest areas"; Google for proof), all on the public dime. Aside from your obvious indignation at any suggestion of "compulsion", I don't see any complaint about that; what say you?
I was rather agog, personally, at the idea that a day's romp through the OWS protests was equivalent to a 20-page paper! I don't know about anyone else, but I never found 20-page papers to be trivial…