{"id":42,"date":"2003-03-10T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2003-03-10T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-10T17:36:00","slug":"42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>LEFTIST INDOCRINATION AT TAX-FUNDED UNIVERSITIES IS A CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION:<\/b> We have here an outrageous case where activism against war in Iraq was a college class requirement. This is a profound violation of an educator&#8217;s moral obligation to educate the young; the job of a professor is to teach college students how to think, not what to think. For an example of gross abuse, meriting in my mind, a dismissal of the instructor involved for misconduct, go <a href=\"http:\/\/thefire.org\/issues\/citrus_prelease.php3\">here<\/a>.  No, I am not against professors expressing their political views in their classes when doing so is somehow connected to the course material. What is objectionable &#8211; and illegal &#8211; is to take federal money and use it to require that students parrot a political position on controversial topics or partisan issues for a passing grade. That is simply agitprop and it doesn&#8217;t belong in any university classrooms. Perhaps it is time for an investigative commission to examine these matters from the Education Department. Or Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEFTIST INDOCRINATION AT TAX-FUNDED UNIVERSITIES IS A CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION: We have here an outrageous case where activism against war in Iraq was a college class requirement. This is a profound violation of an educator&#8217;s moral obligation to educate the young; the job of a professor is to teach college students how to think, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}