Post by mndapa1 on Feb 16, 2009 18:10:11 GMT -6
Jonathan Lopez is a Christian. He is also a student at Los Angeles City College (LACC) in Los Angeles, California. During the fall 2008 semester, Lopez took an Introduction to Public Speaking (Speech 101) class. It was taught by one John Matteson.
In Speech 101 there are several different speaking assignments, including a delivery speech, a culture speech, an informative speech, and a persuasive speech. For the informative speech, Professor Matteson allowed students to cover any topic and to speak between six and eight minutes with or without visual aids.
In November, Jonathan Lopez attempted to give his informative speech on God and the ways he has seen God act miraculously in his life and in the lives of others. In the middle of that speech, Lopez spoke of God and morality and read the dictionary definition of marriage. He also read two verses from the Bible.
But before Lopez was finished with his speech, Professor Matteson interrupted him. After calling Lopez a in front of other students, Matteson invited students to leave the class if they had been offended. When no one left, the professor dismissed the entire class.
As Jonathan Lopez prepared to leave class that day he found an evaluation form left in his backpack by Professor Matteson. There was no grade for the informative speech. Instead there was this instruction: “Ask God what your grade is.”It was followed by a statement saying that “prostyelsyszing [sic] is inappropriate in a public school.”
Gotta say these guys are sure taking this silly church and state thing to a new level. When you give a kid an assignment and he completes it...isnt that what he is suppose to do? Just wondering. I'd give hi an "A". -[glow=red,2,300]mndapa1[/glow]
Rest of story here: townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2009/02/16/ask_god_what_your_grade_is?page=full&comments=true