OPINION:
A college student who recorded a professor making anti-Trump comments allegedly violated a policy that “prohibits the recording of someone on district property without that person’s knowledge or consent” (“Caleb O’Neil, Orange Coast College student, suspended for recording professor’s anti-Trump rant,” Web, Feb. 15). What is the college’s policy on a professor teaching hatred and vitriol about the president of the United States to students whose parents probably pay an enormous amount for their offspring to learn something of value, not to hear disparaging words about the leader of the free world?
Schools should teach facts, not professors’ personal viewpoints. Mr. O’Neil was suspended for two semesters and ordered to write a letter of apology to the professor in question and a three-page essay explaining why he made the recording and subsequently shared the video. What a sham colleges and universities have become. It is the professor who should be writing an apology.
JACQUELINE A. POSTAL
Silver Spring
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