You make some good points, Jerry. This is a bit more complex than it looked initially. After all, legislation is already in place making it illegal for government employees to use tax paid government systems to promote a political agenda or candidate. Maybe this is just along the same lines?
I dunno...something about it still makes me nervous. On 2/21/07, Jerry Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Isn't the goverment *stopping* educators from voicing their opinions > MORE DESTRUCTIVE than any opinions they might provide?" > > From what I read, it is not stopping educators from voicing there > opinions outside of work. After work, it the prof wants to go to the > local political rally of his her choice to and speak, so be it. If > they want to send a check to the party of their choice, more power to > them. I am not sure the freedom of speech works here either. Does > one really have freedom of speech at work if the speech conflicts with > what the job is? In this case, the job is teaching, which should, at > least to me, mean giving more than one side to an issue. > > "If it is a State run university, then I can see the justification for > state level legislation stating you can't spend tax payer time & > resources supporting political agendas." > > Exactly. They are paid to teach, not indoctrinate. Private schools > should have more leeway since they are not government institutions. I > am not even sure you can invoke the Freedom of Speech issue when they > are in the classroom teaching at a government institution. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228529 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
