By Selwyn Duke
While academics often speak reverently about the “marketplace of ideas,” it seems that many educational institutions opt for a controlled economy of expression. A good example is Nonnewaug High School in Woodbury, Connecticut, where an 18-year-old student found that the school was blocking conservative and Christian websites — but not corresponding liberal and non-Christian ones.
As he conducted research last month for a classroom gun-control debate, Andrew Lampart found that access to the websites of the National Association for Gun Rights and the National Rifle Association was forbidden. Yet anti-Second Amendment pages such as the Newtown Action Alliance and Moms Demand Action were not blocked. Was this merely attributable to the anti-gun paranoia that has some schools punishing children for shaping their fingers as a pistol? Hardly.
Suspicious and curious, Lampart explored websites relating to other issues.
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The classroom: What is supposed to be the marketplace of ideas only stocks one brand. Is it any wonder that so-called "liberals", so-called "progressives" and leftists are so stubborn? They are so frightened of the Truth and the reality that they are so wrong that they censor information that threatens their weltanschauung.
Posted by: Philip France | June 28, 2014 at 04:16 PM