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Over 75% of College Students Want ‘Threatening Actions, Ideas, or Conversations’ Banned on Campuses

Yet, they contradictorily also support President Trump’s idea of withholding taxpayer dollars from universities that restrict speech.

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A shocking new poll has found that 78 percent of college students want to limit free speech on their campuses.

Yet, they contradictorily also support President Trump’s idea of withholding taxpayer dollars from universities that restrict free speech.

According to a newly released poll conducted by Gallup and the Knight Foundation, 78 percent of students want “threatening actions, ideas, or conversations” banned at colleges. Yet, 97 percent of students also claim that they believe free speech to be an essential pillar of American democracy.

The more than 80 percent of the clearly-confused students also favor the idea of “safe spaces” and “free-speech zones” on campuses. A growing majority also wants to ban “offensive” Halloween costumes.

The “First Amendment on Campus 2020 Report: College Students’ Views of Free Expression,” study found that “81% of students say they want a campus environment where students are exposed to all types of speech, even if they may find it offensive or biased, rather than being protected from it. At the same time, 78% are in favor of designated ‘safe spaces’ on campus designed to be free of threatening actions, ideas or conversations. Growing majorities of college students believe colleges should be able to restrict the use of racial slurs (78%, up from 69% in 2016) and costumes that stereotype certain racial or ethnic groups (71%, up from 63% in 2016).”

Evette Alexander, director of learning and impact at the Knight Foundation, noted that students feel more pressure from their peers than their professors about sharing dissenting views.

“We understand that [pressure] mostly comes from peers,” Alexander said. “The professors would be open to hearing different thoughts, but the people who feel uncomfortable usually have a point of view that doesn’t align with the most vocal students in the room. And so they feel like by speaking up, they would expose themselves to retaliation.”

There were also strong racial and gender divides on whether or not “students feel that the First Amendment protects them.”

“Nearly nine in 10 college students agree that the First Amendment protects people like themselves, including 44% who strongly agree. White students were more than twice as likely as black students to strongly agree, at 53% versus 25%, respectively. A majority of men (55%) strongly agreed, versus 39% of women,” the pollsters report.

Students, the majority of whom ironically voiced their support for squelching free speech during this survey, also said that they see free speech as increasingly less secure since 2016, and rank it as the least secure of all First Amendment freedoms in 2019.

“Fifty-nine percent of college students believe free speech rights are secure, down from 73% in 2016 and 64% in 2017. While 81% said free press rights were secure in 2016, that number has dropped significantly since,” the report says.

The pollsters concluded that “there are clear racial and gender differences when it comes to an appetite for speech protection, underpinned by differences in these groups’ experiences of speech on campus and in underlying perceptions that the First Amendment ultimately serves to protect people like them.”

The poll was conducted through online surveys with a nationally representative sample of more than 3,000 U.S. full-time undergraduate college students, including an oversample of students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

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Teacher Goes on Anti-Trump Rant After 10-Year-Old Says He Admires the President, Lies to Student’s Mom When Confronted (VIDEO)

The anti-conservative rant was prompted after Stanton asked the class “Who is the one person you admire and why?”

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A Tacoma, Washington, sixth grade teacher was caught on camera going on an anti-Trump tirade over a student saying that he admires the president.

The teacher then lied to the boy’s mother, Elsy Kusander, about the classroom discussion when she confronted him. She recorded the exchange.

Kusander is from Honduras and is a big supporter of President Trump. She did not hesitate to defend both her child and the president to the unhinged “educator.”

“Brendan Stanton, a middle school teacher at P.G. Keithley Middle School in Tacoma, asked students who they admired and why. One student answered President Trump. That triggered Stanton,” KTTH reports.

Ranting teacher scolds 10-year-old for saying he admires Trump

The morning after the world learned President Donald Trump contracted the coronavirus, a Seattle-area teacher went on a rant about the president to sixth graders. When a parent complained, he misled her about what happened. And it was caught on video.READ DETAILS: https://mynorthwest.com/2203336/rantz-seattle-teacher-scolds-student-trump/

Publiée par The Jason Rantz Show on AM 770 KTTH sur Dimanche 4 octobre 2020

The anti-conservative rant was prompted after Stanton asked the class “Who is the one person you admire and why?”

Kusander’s son responded by writing “I admire Donald J. Trump because he is making America great again. And because he is the best president the United States of America could ever, ever have. And he built the wall so terrorists couldn’t come into in the U.S. Trump is the best person in the world. And that’s why I had admire him.”

This response prompted Stanton to completely blow his lid and kick the student out of the virtual classroom.

The teacher told the student, and the class, that it was not an acceptable answer because President Trump spreads “hate.” The rant took place on the same day that it was announced the president has contracted the coronavirus.

“The example that was shared in the chat, which I went ahead and erased for us, was not appropriate right? Especially as that individual has created so much division and hatred between people and specifically spoken hatred to many different individuals, OK?,” Stanton told his students.

KTTH noted that the teacher would not even speak the president’s name, referring to him as “the individual.”

“Again, that individual has spoken hate to many individuals and I don’t think is an appropriate example for a role model that we should be admiring,” Stanton said.

 

 

 

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High School Football Players Suspended for Carrying Thin Blue, Thin Red Line Flags Before 9/11 Game

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High School football players in Florida have been suspended from their team for carrying Thin Blue Line and Thin Red Line flags during their football game on 9/11 to honor the first responders who died during the attack on the World Trade Center.

One of the young men on the Little Miami High School football team is the son of a police officer, another, the son of a firefighter.

“Were you trying to make some kind of a political statement here?” a Local 12 reporter asked Brady Williams, a senior cornerback, who carried the Thin Blue Line flag.

“No,” he answered quickly. “Not at all. I was just doing it to honor the people that lost their lives 19 years ago.”

Jarad Bentley, whose father is a firefighter, carried the Thin Red Line flag.

“I was all for it,” he said. “Because my dad is a firefighter, and if it had been him killed on 9/11, I would have wanted someone to do it for him.”

The young men had asked the school for permission to carry the flags on to the field before the game, and the school refused. They were told that if they did, there would be consequences.

Still, the boys did it anyways.

“Listen,” Williams said. “I don’t care what my consequences are. So long as my message gets across, I’ll be happy.”

Local 12 reports that “Williams and Bentley heard from the athletic director Monday afternoon and received an indefinite suspension.” The station said that they had called the superintendent about the boys a few hours prior.

Superintendent Gregory Power claimed that they denied the boys’ request because they don’t want to “set a precedent” for “political” flags being carried out on the field.

“We did not want to place ourselves in a circumstance where another family might want a different flag to come out of the tunnel, one that may be [one that] many other families may not agree with from a political perspective,” Power claimed.

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Poll Finds 40% of Families More Likely to Homeschool or Virtual School After Lockdowns

“Homeschooling is the new status quo.”

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A new national poll has revealed that 40 percent of families are more likely to continue home or virtual schooling after the lock downs end.

The RealClear Opinion Research survey also found that 64 percent of registered voters support school choice.

Homeschool has been under attack in a big way since the lock downs began, but mainstream media’s efforts to dismiss it is clearly not resonating with voters.

“Every single family with kids in school has been incredibly disrupted by the lockdowns. With 55 million students no longer in their normal educational setting, families are clearly considering new options and many are seeing the benefits of homeschooling and virtual schooling. Policymakers should note that there is a strong desire to have these and other educational options available to families, with both strong support for the general concept of school choice and even stronger support for a specific federal proposal, Education Freedom Scholarships,” John Schilling, President of the American Federation of Children, said in response to the poll results.

Schilling added that this is the time for leadership and for desperately needed bold reforms to be implemented across our K-12 education system.

“Millions of families are seeing the inadequacies of school districts that are too inflexible,” Schilling said. “We owe it to our nation’s families and students to give them more flexibility and additional educational options. Moreover, policymakers owe it to the taxpayers who are footing the $800 billion K-12 education bill to maximize their investment by ensuring every child has access to a quality education and outcomes are improved across the board.”

More black and Asian parents said that they are more likely to consider homeschooling now, with 50.4 percent of black voters saying so, and 53.8 percent of Asian parents. Just 36.3 percent of white parents said the same, and 38.2 percent of Hispanic.

The issue did not seem to be partisan, however, as 45.7 percent of Democrats said they are more likely to consider homeschool, as well as 42.3 percent of Republicans.

Corey A. DeAngelis, the director of school choice at the Reason Foundation told the District Herald that these shutdowns have helped parents to realize that homeschool works better than government schooling.

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