" A college student suspended for writing an essay called “Hot for Teacher” has no First Amendment right to express his sexual attraction to his instructor, a judge said Tuesday…
Corlett, 57, was suspended in 2012 after writing about his writing instructor, Pamela Mitzelfeld. He compared her to the sexy starlet Ginger from the 1960s TV series, “Gilligan’s Island” and described her as “tall, blonde, stacked,” among other things…
Corlett said students in the English 380 class were told to write honestly and that no topic was off limits."
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/23/college_student_loses_lawsuit_over_lusty_writings/singleton/
I hope she realizes that Rate My Professors has also labelled her as hot
What does this have to do with the First Amendment?
Wow!! 267 views and no one else has the immediate reaction: it’s crazy that a college would suspend a student for this (assuming the rest of the essay was similar to the lines quoted and not pornographic).
You didn’t seem to have an opinion so why should we?
Mary Ann was hotter, anyway.
It’s a public university.
Is there any case on record of a publically-funded school being prohibited from enforcing academic probationary measures on a student whose offense is saying obnoxious stuff?
I’m gonna guess not.
Probably somewhere. But I agree the law is favoring the university, which is why the student presumably lost this one.
He didn’t even make it to court. The judge dismissed the case.
If elementary schools are allowed to suspend children for wearing gang colors to school, I’m pretty sure this university didn’t break any First Amendment rules.
I honestly thought this was gonna be a zombie. We must have had threads about this in 2012, it was all over the news.
The teacher said either he went, or she did. Guess who college authorities thought was the more valuable member of their community?
I don’t know what’s legal but it’s pretty freakin creepy to write about your teacher like that. I think there is a level you can maintain without coming onto your teacher…I would have thought it would be creepy to do the same about another student, too.
And in my last creative writing class we had to read parts of our paper out loud. :eek:
You know, when the dress code says “casual attire is allowed”, it doesn’t mean you can wear your cargo shorts with your dick hanging out. Same thing goes for “all topics are allowed”.
Yeah, I can see this creeping the teacher out.
I had a friend in college go through something like this. He had to write a paper for a creative writing class from someone’s perspective, so he wrote something from the perspective of a serial killer. A few days after he handed it in, a couple of cops showed up at his apartment and took him in for questioning. They kept asking things like ‘Where’s the van’ and ‘Where did you get the tools’. It was half an hour before he realized they were talking about the paper, and another hour before he could convince them that it was just a paper. The teacher wouldn’t let him back into class, she said she ‘was afraid for her life’. He had to drop it mid quarter.
- It’s old news.
- You never give your opinion.
- You very rarely come back to your own threads, to engage other posters. Posting a link and flying away makes for a dull thread, imo.
Yes, I agree. Colleges are just like elementary schools, and wearing gang colors is just like calling a teacher hot. I am quite serious, this appears to be the state of affairs.
His Lawyer’s claim it did:
This, PastTense. When come back, bring commentary based on your own opinions, if you want the rest of us to give a groat.
Would it be appropriate if I said that creepy shit to one of my coworkers?
If my dick were long enough to hang out of my cargo shorts I’d be showing that bad-boy off at every opportunity.