Anti-Gun Professor in Maine Won't Be Teaching That Class Going Forward

Community college isn't the kind of place where we expect major controversies. They're a low-cost option for many students who can't afford to make it to a four-year school, or for those who don't want to be so far from home right away, or for those who might just need to get their grades up before transferring to a four-year college. That's what most people focus on.

But a community college in Maine has come under scrutiny when a teacher essentially attacked a student for her pro-gun views, which the professor believes conflict with the student's professed Christian faith.

Yeah, I talked about this one last week.

It pissed me off and it still pisses me off.

But at least the student in question won't have to deal with that professor for the rest of the semester.

According to an email obtained by the Maine Wire, Lynne Manion, another EMCC professor in the humanities department, will now be taking over for Lewandowski in teaching the oral communications course for the remainder of the summer semester.

While Manion wrote in her email to the students that she will be “filling in for Carol,” the email does not state a reason for Lewandowski being replaced.

“Oral Communications is my favorite class to teach; however, I realize it is challenging to have a new instructor come in at the midway point,” Manion wrote. “I will work diligently to make sure this transition is as smooth as possible.”

Manion said she would be essentially overhauling the course following Lewandowski’s departure, explaining that she would be providing a whole new set of activities for the students that will meet the objectives of the course in the remaining time. She even advised students not to worry about doing any work that Lewandowski had assigned before leaving.

This wasn't the only example of Lewandowski being unhinged because of politics. 

She apparently canceled class right after the election because the person she wanted to win didn't.

This is not the first time that Lewandowski has been absent from her class due to political issues — according to emails obtained by the Maine Wire, Lewandowski canceled class after the 2024 election, claiming that she was too upset about Donald Trump winning to teach, or to even “communicate in any way, shape, or form.”

Describing the woe of Trump’s electoral victory as akin to a “death in the family,” the 30-year EMCC professor offered in an email to her students a grave prediction that “the US is going to lose its glorious democracy, its stately presidency (again), its constitution, its global respect, its civil rights, its guiding light, its compassion for others, its respect for ‘facts’, and just our sense of humanity.”

Now, I get that not everyone who reads this page is a Donald Trump supporter. Most of you are, but not all. That's fine, because the Second Amendment should transcend partisanship.

But to be so upset over an election that you can't even do your job or "communicate in any way, shape, or form" is the sign that you're not remotely healthy mentally and should probably seek a great deal of professional help. While politics matters, it's not everything in the world.

The fact that EMCC allowed this person to continue after this incident in 2024 is a little troubling, personally. If I called out of a job I'm paid to do just because of the outcome of an election that my person lost, I'd have a problem, and not just because I'm expected to write about that election.

You just can't do that.

Then she attacks a student for her political views in a class where she was tasked to make a persuasive argument. Well, a lot of those are going to be political, so what Lewandowski had an issue with wasn't that Parker's proposed topic was political--that would be somewhat understandable as long it was universally applied--but that it was the wrong politics.

So now she won't be teaching a class that, frankly, she seems ill-equipped to teach.

The problem is that as of right now, we don't know if Lewandowski has any kind of job. She shouldn't. Not after all of this.

Instead, she should be in therapy. Lots and lots of therapy.

Then, maybe, she'll learn that the world doesn't revolve around her feelings and that people can disagree with her without being evil or whatever.

But her butt should have to pay for that herself because she lost her job.