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Rutgers Students Stage Sit-In To Protest Condoleezza Rice Commencement Speech

This is what's destroying America. Soon only view will be the leftist view.

Rice declines Rutgers commencement invite; says it has become a distraction

Condoleezza Rice announced Saturday that she will not be delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University’s graduation ceremony this month, saying the invitation has become a "distraction."
Commencement should be a time of joyous celebration for the graduates and their families. Rutgers' invitation to me to speak has become a distraction for the university community at this very special time,” the former secretary of state under President George W. Bush said in the statement.

"I understand and embrace the purpose of the commencement ceremony and I am simply unwilling to detract from it in any way."- Condoleezza Rice

"I am honored to have served my country. I have defended America's belief in free speech and the exchange of ideas. These values are essential to the health of our democracy. But that is not what is at issue here. As a professor for thirty years at Stanford University and as (its) former Provost and Chief academic officer, I understand and embrace the purpose of the commencement ceremony and I am simply unwilling to detract from it in any way."
On Monday, roughly 50 Rutgers University students staged a sit-in at a school administration building in New Brunswick to protest the school's invitation to  Rice to appear at the university's commencement.
The school's Board of Governors voted to pay $35,000 for her appearance at the May 18 ceremony. She was going to be awarded an honorary degree.
But several faculty members and students wanted the invitation rescinded because of Rice's role in the Iraq War. Rutgers' New Brunswick Faculty Council passed a resolution in March calling on the university's board of governors to rescind the invitation.
Photos and videos of Monday's protest posted to Twitter showed students lining a staircase leading to University President Robert Barchi's office, The Star-Ledger reported.
Some students held up signs reading, "No honors for war criminals," "War criminals out" and "RU 4 Humanity?" the report said.
The sit-in was one of the largest in Rutgers' history, according to The Daily Targum, a student newspaper. Police reportedly responded to the site of the protest after a glass door was broken and a student cut their hand.
Barchi and other school leaders had resisted the calls to "disinvite" Rice, saying the university welcomes open discourse on controversial topics.
"We cannot protect free speech or academic freedom by denying others the right to an opposing view, or by excluding those with whom we may disagree. Free speech and academic freedom cannot be determined by any group. They cannot insist on consensus or popularity," Barchi said in a letter to campus last month.
The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Why is school teaching kids ethnic slurs?

What’s worse?

1. Teaching a kindergarten student an ethnic slur.
2. Teaching a kindergarten student a pejorative for a part of the female anatomy.
3. Teaching a kindergarten student fake words.
4. All of the above.

Ashley Zola selected “D”. Her daughter is a kindergarten student at Lakeside Park Elementary School in Hendersonville, Tenn. She was upset after she discovered that her daughter’s homework assignment included an ethnic slur for Italians and a pejorative for a part of the female anatomy.
But she was even more disturbed to learn that her child and all the other kids in the class were being taught “imaginary words.”

“You wouldn’t put ‘Polack’ in a reading list for a child,” Zola said. “That’s offensive to Polish people. So why are you teaching them ‘wop’?”

“I’m very offended and upset about this,” Zola told me in a telephone interview from her home in Hendersonville, Tenn.
The first homework assignment included a list of words that Zola’s daughter was supposed to practice at home. Among the words were “nist,” and “plad.”
“Her grandfather was going over the words along with their definitions so she could understand what she was reading,” Zola told me. “But there were two words that had no meaning.”
So she wrote a note to the teacher asking for an explanation.
The teacher replied, “They are make-believe words. It is part of our curriculum.”
A few days later, her daughter returned home with another assignment.
“Please practice these words at home tonight,” the instructions read. “Remember not all of these words are real words. Some are made up words.”
Among the made-up words were “tid,” “rok,” “rix” and “hep.”
Zola sent back the homework assignment with a note written to her daughter’s teacher.
“We do not teach our child anything fake,” she wrote.
But the assignment also included two other words that made Zola furious – “wop” and “mut.”
“If you were to look up either of those words, they would not be something you would discuss with a five year old,” she told me.
“WOP” is an ethnic slur used against Italians. You’ll just need to Google the other word.
“You wouldn’t put ‘Polack’ in a reading list for a child,” she said. “That’s offensive to Polish people. So why are you teaching them ‘wop’?”
I spoke to the principal of the school – a very nice lady – who assured me the assignments had nothing to do with Common Core.
And while she was unfamiliar with the specifics of the classroom assignment, she said it’s not unusual for teachers to use fake words to teach children about phonetics.
Really? Why not just use real words?
The principal never answered that question. She never returned my subsequent telephone calls. And neither did the Sumner County Schools spokesperson. (I called him three times -- it’s really impolite not to return phone messages)
So here’s the bottom line from Zola.
“I want my daughter to be able to know what she’s reading,” she said. “There’s a difference between reading a word and knowing what that word is – and comprehending it. I have a hard time doing it when the definitions of those words are inappropriate for someone her age.”
That seems like a pretty reasonable request to me.
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