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'I can only describe LSE as an orgy of debauchery,’ an academic told a tribunal
What a whiner! In his position I would have just smiled
A professor has called one of Britain’s most prestigious universities an ‘orgy of debauchery’ after alleging he was sexually harassed by two female colleagues.
Dr Theodore Piepenbrock told a tribunal there was a culture of heavy drinking and affairs between academics at the London School of Economics (LSE).
He claims he was the victim of a ‘campaign of vengeance’ there after making complaints.
The economist, who is seeking more than £4million in compensation, said LSE destroyed his career after he complained he had been sexually harassed by Joanne Hay, now LSE’s deputy chief operating officer.
Dr Piepenbrock, 57, said he was in a lift in his first week as a fellow and deputy dean at the department of management when Miss Hay entered and ‘appeared to be very drunk’.
He said: ‘After the doors closed, the woman approached me, put her hand on my chest, spoke close enough to me to smell alcohol on her breath.
'Miss Hay told me, “Please don’t hesitate to let me know if there is anything I can do to make your stay more pleasurable”.
‘I asked Miss Hay to take her hand off my chest and please to leave me alone.’
The Times reported how he filed a grievance report against her at LSE for ‘sexual assault, harassment and defamation’.
‘My rejection of Miss Hay appears to have caused a multi-year campaign of vengeance against me,’ he added.
Dr Piepenbrock also alleged a female teaching assistant became obsessed with him on a work trip. He said he had to dismiss the woman, Miss D, after she opened her hotel room naked from the waist down.
He told LSE officials he was being harassed by her but was unaware Miss D also complained about him, alleging he told her she had ‘a beautiful body’ and threatened to ruin her reputation. He denies her allegations.
He went off work after suffering from depression. His LSE contract was not renewed.
‘Based on my personal experience of Miss Hay’s drunken sexual assault… Miss D’s indecent exposure and the LSE’s systemic refusal to investigate my grievances... I can only describe LSE as an orgy of debauchery,’ he told the tribunal.
He is claiming victimisation, unfair dismissal and disability discrimination because LSE allegedly failed to take account of his autism and depression.
LSE denied wrongdoing.
It said there was ‘no basis’ for extending his three-year fellowship ‘given the nature and extent of [his] grievances’.
In a separate case, Piepenbrock lost a £4 million compensation claim against LSE at the High Court in 2018 for errors in the handling of a complaint against him by a young female teaching assistant. The court found that his conduct towards her was 'inappropriate...inept...unprofessional and wrong'.
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Critical race theory exposed in detail in new documentary, 'Whose Children Are They?'
In recent times, critical race theory (CRT) has come under increasing scrutiny.
If there is a silver lining in the COVID-19 crisis over the past two years, it's that American parents have seen firsthand, via their children's online classes, how public schools have pushed a radical agenda that includes CRT (whether it's actually called that by schools or not).
Now, a new documentary "Whose Children Are They?" reveals the issue in detail. "Whose Children Are They?: Exposing the Hidden Agenda in America’s Schools," shines a light on "the need to return to the original intent of education, not indoctrination," as Fathom Events, the project’s distributor, points out on its website.
With the premise that "public education is the most important domestic issue facing America today," the documentary is opening in select theaters on March 14, for one night only.
It calls on parents, teachers and others to partner together "for the innocence and well-being of our children."
"The so-called teacher unions and their political allies are heavily pushing CRT in our K-12 schools, colleges and universities."
"I’d like parents to understand that the root problem in our schools is the so-called teachers’ unions and their radical agenda — not good teachers," Rebecca Friedrichs, a producer on the project and a cast member, told Fox News Digital in an interview earlier this week.
The mother of two grown boys, Friedrichs is co-founder of For Kids and Country, a national movement of parents, teachers and citizens who want to restore the culture in public schools.
During a 30-day window from March 15-April 14, viewers can see "Whose Children Are They?" via ticketed events at their churches, homes, schools and more.
To do so, they can click on a button on the film's website that says, "Bring to My Church." After that first month, the movie will be available via premium video on demand.
CRT is ubiquitous in America, noted Friedrichs ahead of the documentary's debut. "The so-called teacher unions and their political allies are heavily pushing CRT in our K-12 schools, colleges and universities," she said.
"It is imbedded in curricula, teacher trainings, school cultures and especially through Obama-era racial equity discipline policies that have turned our classrooms into war zones."
Friedrichs also said, "The education establishment wants teachers to weave CRT into every subject. But good teachers reject CRT because it teaches children to judge their peers [based] on the color of their skin instead of the content of their character."
Friedrichs added, "My students and I always celebrated that we were living Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream because we had students from all over the world in our class, but we all respected one another."
"We were a true melting pot. Unions and their allies seek to divide us all with CRT. Beware: CRT is presented under a score of other titles."
Her lawsuit, Friedrichs v. California Teachers’ Association, brought with 10 others, was argued before the United States Supreme Court in 2016 and "blazed the trail for ending forced unionism for all teachers and government employees."
"If parents will stand with good teachers and help them to reject the unions, we can restore our schools," explained Friedrichs. "The unions are the culprits behind undermining parents, indoctrinating children, pushing an anti-American agenda, destroying our once outstanding educational system and more."
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/critical-race-theory-documentary-children
******************************************Australia: A handful of Sydney students were shocked when they opened up their email on a Friday night to find some “bloody awful” news waiting in their inbox.
On Friday night, at 5.15pm, journalism students from Macleay College, a private college based in Sydney which also has a virtual Melbourne campus, found a “life-changing” email waiting for them in their inbox.
Two weeks into their first trimester, they were informed that the Diploma and Bachelor of Journalism courses had been cancelled due to “low enrolments”.
Earlier that day, the first-year students had gone to class and had been assigned homework for the following week.
In fact, their tutors and lecturers were only warned 25 minutes before them about the course terminations.
It has left staff facing unemployment and students with their life turned upside down; pupils in the middle of their degree may only be able to leave with a statement of attainment, not even a diploma or a degree to show for their hard work.
Meanwhile, first year students have quit full-time jobs, moved interstate and turned down other university offers for a now defunct degree and it is too late to apply to another university for this term.
“To be told on a Friday afternoon after hours is really heartless,” new journalism student Chelsea Caffery told news.com.au.
Students are wondering why Macleay College allowed their classes to continue for two weeks with the knowledge that enrolment numbers were too low to keep the course going.
The college has offered up an alternative degree, Digital Media, which is not a pure journalism course like the one they signed up for.
Now students have just one week before the census cut off date to decide whether to drop out of the course or enrol into the alternate degree.
For students where this is not their first year in the course, they have a “teach out” option which involves them studying as much as they can until their trimester ends on May 20, by which time they will either have finished their degree or will only receive a statement of attainment.
Contractors revealed to news.com.au that their contracts were never renewed for this year, and instead they were being paid through weekly invoices, in what could be a sign that the future of the course had been uncertain for some time.
Ms Caffery, 20, who was two weeks into the $54,000 Bachelor of Journalism course, gave up a full-time job and another university offer to land her dream degree at Macleay.
“It’s really really tough, we’re angry and we’re upset and we’re really confused,” she said.
“We’re literally four business days [until the census date] away from making a life-changing decision.
“This was the next two years of my life, I had it all planned out. This degree I was so excited for. I’ve been sitting here for the next 24 hours wondering what do I do with my life now.”
In a move that students have labelled as even more insulting, their queries to Macleay College have gone unanswered, some claim.
The bombshell email was sent 15 minutes after close of business on a Friday and students have been unable to get in touch with college executives since.
Students have taken to social media to express their outrage, with one person calling the situation “unconscionable”.
Macleay College was purchased by fashion entrepreneur Sarah Stavrow last year.
Ms Stavrow had previously assured staff that the program would be retained as it was what Macleay was “known for”.
But at the meeting outlining the course closure, Ms Stavrow was not present and refused to take calls afterwards
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