intolerant leftists at Smith?

passionflower8
Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:38:50 +0000

i just want to apologise for the title of this post. i tried to edit it like 2 s after posting but it didn’t work. i had heard that smith was very left, and though i would characterize myself center-left, i want to make sure i go to a school that will constantly challenge my thinking. it appears that smith would be a good place for that from everyone’s post.
the fact that when i did a google news search of smith, that weirdo article came up aided only slightly to my fears. i KNOW that the article is not good journalism, but it just increased my fears even still. the school i go to now is in a very republican area. our health books don’t teach contraception and stress abstinence. an old history teacher felt that the valerie plame scandal was “a witchhunt.” that being said, my school pe teachers do teach about condoms, etc, and my old history teacher knows his stuff pretty well and is not a bush-republican. My point is that I see how much the attitudes of the administration could influence the individual students education and if the administration won’t allow an open forum for debate, that is an unneccessary obstacle to growing up to be a thinking human being. Again, that does not seem to be the case at Smith. I am not anti-left, anti-right, anti-choice, anti-life, but i do want to be sure i’ll hear both sides of every story.