Remember when re-education camps were just fiction ?
By laglen
@laglen (19759)
United States
November 30, 2009 8:48pm CST
I am still speechless - I will let you read and comment, maybe then I will have digested this information
BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
Teaching plan: America 'an oppressive hellhole'
University outlines 're-education' for those who hold 'wrong' views
Posted: November 27, 2009
9:15 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
University of Minnesota president Robert Bruininks
A program proposed at the University of Minnesota would result in required examinations of teacher candidates on "white privilege" as well as "remedial re-education" for those who hold the "wrong" views, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
The organization, which promotes civil liberties on the campuses of America's colleges and universities
, has dispatched a letter to University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks asking him to intervene to prevent the adoption of policies proposed in his College of Education and Human Development.
"The university's
general counsel should be asked to comment as soon as possible," said the letter from Adam Kissel, an officer with FIRE. "If the Race, Culture, Class, and Gender Task Group achieves its stated goals, the result will be political and ideological screening of applicants, remedial re-education for those with the 'wrong' views and values, [and] withholding of degrees from those upon whom the university's political re-education efforts proved ineffective."
By any "nontotalitarian" standards, he wrote, the plans being made so far by the school are "severely unjust and impermissibly intrude into matters of individual conscience."
Kissel wrote that it appears that the university "intends to redesign its admissions process so that it screens out people with the 'wrong' beliefs and values – those who either do not have sufficient 'cultural competence' or those who the college judges will not be able to be converted to the 'correct' beliefs and values even after remedial re-education."
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117313
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what is your opinion, input?
3 responses
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
5 Dec 09
Oh. I thought our esteemed institutions of higher learning had pretty much done that already. (Well, in spirit I guess. This is just the next step.)
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@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
1 Dec 09
This is something that you would expect from Stalin, Mao or Poi Pot / Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. I always thought that Universities were to be a place of open and free discussion and for new Ideas. I guess now we all have to be of one mind and that the the great leader will tell us what to think.
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