Students at Ariza State University got bent when they found out Kyle Rittenhouse had been accepted. “No killers,” but wait – ASU educates thousands of actual convicted felons, because, according to them, “education is a right that inheres within our humanity.”
Where’s the Student outrage over this?
ASU’s Prison Education Programming (PEP—formerly Prison English) begins with a belief that education is a right that inheres within our humanity. It is not a right that stops at a prison’s gates. Education needs to traverse borders and boundaries, including prison boundaries.
Arizona State University espouses community engagement, an effort to reach out from its campuses in order to achieve beneficial and lasting effects. In the words of the university’s vision statement, “ASU strengthens communities by contributing to community dialogue and responding to communities’ needs. We provide an education that’s inclusive rather than exclusive. Our students engage in the world around them.” PEP locates itself squarely within this work of community engagement.
That’s the University’s position on providing higher learning to the local prison population.
In other words, if Kyle had been convicted and incarcerated in Arizona, he could have received at least the beginnings of a free college education from ASU. Professors would go to the prison campus and teach him. But because he is innocent narrow-minded pie-eyed leftists don’t want him to receive an online education.
Yes, Kyle was enrolled as an online student, but Kyle isn’t even enrolled there anymore.
ASU’s students “engaged in the world around them” and denied Kyle “an education that is inclusive rather than exclusive.”
Maybe ASU should put a few of those protesters on trial for violating the community standards or whatever they call it these days.
