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From the LOS ANGELES TIMES
Instructor Placed on Leave Over Letters
By Rebecca Trounson
Times Staff Writer
March 8, 2003
A speech instructor at Citrus College has been placed on
administrative leave after students complained that she
told them they could earn extra credit by writing to
President Bush to protest a possible war with Iraq, a
college official said Friday.
Rosalyn Kahn, a part-time instructor at the two-year
college in Glendora, told students in January that they
would not receive extra credit if they used their letters
to express other political views, including support for
the war, said Samuel T. Lee, associate dean for language
arts and foreign languages at the college.
In a separate extra-credit assignment, Kahn also asked her
students to write to their state Senate representatives,
discussing the state's budget crisis and cuts that have
been propos...See More
From the LOS ANGELES TIMES
Instructor Placed on Leave Over Letters
By Rebecca Trounson
Times Staff Writer
March 8, 2003
A speech instructor at Citrus College has been placed on
administrative leave after students complained that she
told them they could earn extra credit by writing to
President Bush to protest a possible war with Iraq, a
college official said Friday.
Rosalyn Kahn, a part-time instructor at the two-year
college in Glendora, told students in January that they
would not receive extra credit if they used their letters
to express other political views, including support for
the war, said Samuel T. Lee, associate dean for language
arts and foreign languages at the college.
In a separate extra-credit assignment, Kahn also asked her
students to write to their state Senate representatives,
discussing the state's budget crisis and cuts that have
been propos...See More
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Politics does belong in school. Young people need to be aware of the
way our country works, if they do not, then we will be plagued with
more of these people who do not vote, and eventually our system will
fail. To keep democracy working we must have informance!
Politics does belong in school. Young people need to be aware of the
way our country works, if they do not, then we will be plagued with
more of these people who do not vote, and eventually our system will
fail. To keep democracy working we must have informance!
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On 3/11/03, bg wrote:
> On 3/11/03, Jackalope wrote:
>> On 3/10/03, Cathy Daniels wrote:
>>> I had many college assignments but none like this. Shouldn't
>>> this instructor have been fired for the sum of inappropriate
>>> assignments below? This is outrageous.
>...See More