| Re: Have the schools gone too far? |
Subject: Re: Have the schools gone too far? by bogus on 2012/3/26 16:08:07 You can pretty much say whatever you want here. That's my golden rule. As long as it isn't a lie or a deep personal attack. As for this, what grounds does the school have to expel - EXPEL - a student for something they did off grounds, outside of classes, away from campus, on personal time? Do they have a code of conduct no one has mentioned? And if so, what kind of draconian crack smoker thought that up? It's more endemic of our times than I care to admit. People are so damned politically correct these days, and another chunk are so damned sensitive these days, that no one day say a word without it causing a shit storm. And that bothers me. Natural debate is being taken away and replaced with walking on eggshells. Corporate America has eroded ones right to free speech to such a point as to request (as mentioned above) ones facebook page log in credentials. Professional athletes of just about any flavour are now so tied down, that anything they say which doesn't support the party line becomes an offense, subject to fines and or suspension. I mean, look at Corvette Forum? They are about the worst offenders. They are so damned anal, they don't want to hurt the feelings of their sponsors. Protectionism at its finest. Argh. All of this is taking away our right to be ourselves. It is forcing people to mold into a pattern that satisfies the system, not the ideals of our forefathers. Compliance to law, honor of rules, all of that is fine, but when they start to truly impinge on ones life and ability to communicate freely, then there is a problem. My former employer had the motto, and I paraphrase, "shattering expectations!" Sure, sounds idealistic, but I was told that if certain folks in the company heard my slightly democratic political views, I could be fired. I wasn't impressed, to be honest. I responded to that threat with something like this: If those people held such sway, and were so afraid of anyone challenging their beliefs, then this company has bigger problems than anyone can ever hope to fix. This company also wanted to hire people for their individuality and ability to invent with new ideas... only to break you down and make you fit their ideal. In short, hypocrites. They had some great people working there, but from what I hear, now several years later, most are just simply broken. |
