OPINION: Dr. Samuel Joeckel says Palm Beach Atlantic University officials used “smokescreens” to justify firing him, after a parent complained he was “indoctrinating students.”
scholar’s contract had been postponed pending a review of his Composition II class’s three-day racial justice unit. In an impromptu after-class meeting on Feb. 15, Joeckel’s dean and provost informed him they were looking into an accusation by a student’s parent that he was “indoctrinating students.”
Since The Daily Beast spoke with him in late February, Joeckel says he met with PBAU administrators once more, at which time the provost and head of human resources ran through a number of supposed issues with his teaching, which he regards as “smokescreen[s]” for the true motivation behind his termination—teaching “a unit on racial justice that one parent deemed indoctrination.”
Joeckel also noted being accused of running afoul of what he called PBAU’s “anti-gay policy.” According to this, the school “expects that their students, faculty, and staff will neither engage in nor promote views of sexuality or gender expression that contradicts biblical standards.” Joeckel avers that, while “a member of an LGBTQ-affirming church ,” he is “of course aware of the university’s policy, so I do not violate it.
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