Obama-pimping teacher: “I should not have said that”
Here’s a very disturbing update to the very disturbing video of Diatha Harris, the Obama-supporting teacher in Cumberland County, N.C. caught on tape hectoring a girl over her support for John McCain Harris now says “she should not have said that.” The student, Cathy Thompson, and her parents don’t want to see her punished.
Why?
Because that’s how the teacher always behaves!
The Cumberland County school system is investigating the actions of a former Asheville teacher criticized for “belittling” a student who voiced support for presidential candidate John McCain.
AdvertisementBut the parents of that student, and the student herself, said Friday that teacher Diantha Harris did nothing wrong.
“She is usually messing around,” said Cathy Thompson, who was in Harris’ fifth-grade class in May when a Swedish film crew visited for a documentary on American politics. “When she said that, I knew she was messing around.”
What Harris said sparked the ire of conservative bloggers this week after a clip of her from the film “From Bill to Barack” made its way to YouTube. The film aired Monday on Finland’s Swedish language Channel 5…
…Cumberland County is home to Fort Bragg and the 82nd Airborne.
Cathy Thompson said Friday she wasn’t upset at the time. Her parents, Angela Moore and Army Staff Sgt. Robert Thompson, also said they weren’t mad at the teacher.
Moore said her daughter never mentioned feeling as if she was being picked on.
“Mrs. Harris is always active with the children like that,” Moore said. “I have sat in her class when my Cathy was a student, and she was very active with the children. She tries to get them involved with everything.”
Robert Thompson said when he first watched the clip Friday, he understood why some would see it as Harris trying to change his daughter’s mind.
But after hearing Harris’ side and talking with his daughter, he now thinks Harris is “getting a rough deal.”
If parents think Harris’s behavior constitutes acceptable “education,” we are even more screwed than I thought.
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More: Reader Will Amos sends a link to this WRAL video of Harris and Cathy appearing on TV together. Harris plays the victim card to full tilt.
She apologizes for the “Your daddy could be in Iraq for 100 years” remark, but insists she did not inject her personal politics into the classroom.
Exclaiming “Oh, Jesus, McCain!” is apparently an expression of neutrality.
I agree with her on one thing: People should stop calling the school district at this point. The superintendent has spoken and he is investigating.
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I just sent this video in to you Michelle. Its the little girl and the teacher going on TV together
The teacher just wants everyone to stop “Lying” on her. In her mind she is the victim here.
WRAL has a poll up about this subject
Current results
Do you agree with the teacher’s approach?
I see no problem with it. It’s never too early to get children to understand politics and political fallout. 39 7%
No. Talking about politics is one thing, but expressing support or disdain for particular candidates is inappropriate in the classroom. 427 73%
No. The teacher should have never broached the subject with fifth-graders, especially when it could have upset some in the classroom. 117 20%
What did you expect, Michelle? The parents are undoubtedly products of years of government school indoctrination.
Welcome to the Obama era. Nobody is wrong (except white, conservative males), and everyone is a victim. Don’t point out anything wrong – you’re just taking things out of context trying to divide instead of uniting!
The teacher seemed to be dead serious to me, and judging by the way the girl was biting her lip, I’d say she thought it was serious too.
We are watching our country slip away. The inmates are definitely running the asylum now. Mark Steyn’s article from NRO today “The Death of the American Ideal” is certainly sobering and I fear- prophetic. We no longer find unacceptable behavior unacceptable. I wish The 5,000 Year Leap was required reading for every child in America and maybe, just maybe we would find our souls again.
I suppose teaching the woman how to speak English is out of the question as well.
As if these quotations from aren’t disturbing enough by their own merit, if one compares them with what we see now in American education, we have true cause for concern.
“I begin with the young. We older ones are used up. We are rotten to the marrow. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there any finer ones in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world. This is the heroic stage of youth. Out of it will come the creative man, the man-god.”
“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I say calmly, ‘Your child belongs to us already…What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing but this new community’.”
“…Knowledge would spoil my young people. I prefer that they learn only what they pick up by following their own play instinct. But they must learn self-control. I will have them master the fear of death through the most difficult trials. That is the heroic stage of youth. Out of it will grow the stage of the free man, a human being who is the measure and center of the world.”
Who said these? Adolf Hitler.
I haven’t watched the video since MM first posted it, but I remember the teacher swearing, “Oh Jesus”, everytime a student mentioned McCain.
If the parents have no problem with teachers belittling and swearing at their children, then who am I to judge?
This whole affair still has me madder then a wet cat. One reason I have kept my mouth shut about it is I would not be able to keep from communicating in old Senior NCO mode with chewing out someone badly in need of it by using every swear word in the book without out repeating any to get my point across on how bad they had screwed up. Bringing the little girl to the point of tear is NOT meshing around! IMHO the teacher was out of line and her only regret is that she was caught on tape.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
Considering the mother of the little girl believes that John McCain was going to keep her Husband in Iraq for 100 years as well as the teacher can say that Obama did propaganda very well.
Another example of white people turning the other cheek. Something black people never ever do.
Reverse this situation and there would be a protest at the school and the teacher would never work there again.
And to give some of you your first Arabic word:
This situation is majnune!
maj (like in Mah jong without the ong)
That’s Arabic for CRAZY!
Having dealt with inappropriate teacher behavior and the “consequences” of bringing it to the school’s attention(i.e., circling the wagons and subsequent passive-aggressive actions to punish parents for bringing this stuff up), I’m not surprised we’re seeing this reaction from the girl’s parents. One can only imagine what kind of response they’re getting as the teacher tries to make herself out as the victim.
I don’t know how, under any context, you excuse the “your daddy will be in Iraq for 100 years” remark.
I’m glad the soldier and his family are gracious, but I have serious fears about the discourse in the near future. Will the next thing be lack of access to the Malkin blog by search engines? “Equal time” on the radio versus Rush?
Soldier abuse, and in this case, possible child of soldier abuse, is a hot button issue for America.
It’s not like 5th graders can even vote. So why the browbeating? They still have 7 more years to turn the kids into good little worker drones.
The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom.
As I wrote back in August: Barack Obama is merely the culmination of our culture. Obama fills many of today’s virtues. What are today’s virtues? Primarily, openness and equality. As Allan Bloom stated, “Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power. The unrestrained and thoughtless pursuit of openness, without recognizing the inherent political, social, or cultural problem of openness as the goal of nature, has rendered openness meaningless. Cultural relativism destroys both one’s own and the good. Culture, hence, closedness, reigns supreme. Openness to closedness is what we teach.” Then you have equality, which now trumps excellence, for one can be no better than another, have more than another, regardless of disparities in the amount of time and effort one spends to accomplish their goals.
So, here we have Obama, who doesn’t “flip-flop,” but rather is “open” to all sides, which is now more virtuous than being right. In our culture now, he’s also the personification of equality. Regardless of his lack of skill, intellect, character, and leadership credentials, Obama still carries the day in terms of equality by showing that despite all of his deemed “hurdles” of race, mishaps of character, coming from a broken home, etc., he shows that we’re “good” enough to elect him, which provides more people “hope,” since no longer do you need to have the aforementioned qualities or a strong work ethic to be President. All one needs now is an “open” mind and the most average, or even “disadvantaged,” background.
So when we ask ourselves where our culture has gone, I answer with two words: Barack Obama.
I agree. If I ever get the chance to retire, I’m heading to the classrooms to teach young people. And I’ll do it the “American” way. May God help us all.
The parents are probably afraid of being Joe the plumbered. Heaven only knows what attacks they might suffer if they speak out against the teacher.
I am glad that the parents can forgive the teacher. That is a virtue. But I don’t think that the administration can allow the parents to wave them off. This may be okay with them but it is not okay for the teacher to do this.
Doesn’t it make you warm a comfy to know that those not normally qualified to enter college has a route to get a college degree…Teacher Certification.
Thank God I was one of the lucky people that received an education by teachers with Degrees in the subjects they taught.
Babb: Hope you don’t mind my edits.
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This video may interest a few folks here. Here’s the background.
Personally, I like the traditional approach. Call an all students, all teachers assembly, march the teacher out and have representatives from the state DOE strip her off her teacher’s license, have the superintendent publically fire her and then march her out of the assembly hall.
That works.
Stockholm syndrome.
zorro, the laws and rules, unions and custom in most school districts will give you almost no chance. You will be forced to lay out your plans to teach the PC, now Obama-Marxist, doctrine. Fail to do so and you will be let go.
Don’t count on avoiding PC by teaching science or math either. The textbooks and methods to do so these days will drive you crazy by their poor quality, mistakes and confusions. Yet you will not be allowed to use others.
Nor in such classes will you have much ability to enforce the quiet yet active type of discussion best suited for learning. Discipline there is not, for academic subjects, anything but for discussion of feelings. You can achieve some order only by discussing some current issue — American Idol, a sports event, etc, and having everyone getting their feelings out.
Don’t count on any support for more serious discipline measures — and in some schools — avoid the hallways during class changes. You might be wearing the wrong gang colors, or something.
And even if you are tough, a street fighter, able and willing to take down the hardest cases — you’ll only last so long. It won’t be the students that take you out, it will be the teachers who see you as disruptive, and the parents who complain to school board members, and school board members who immediately burn off the ears of Principals.
You may be a top dog, but the Pack is huge and they will hit you from every direction.
Unless you stick to feelings. Grammar doesn’t matter. Facts are ancient garbage. Feelings count.
Good grief! Are you a Maoist from the Cultural Revolution days? Did you forget the dunce cap and placard with her name X’ed out? What about a struggle session? haha Fire her, yes; but “march her out?” Good grief.
One step missing.. but that is why it is probably good that I am not in charge I guess.
Public Schools are Socialist Brainwashing Machines!!!
She’s only apologizing because she was comfronted. She saw nothing wrong with what she did! Listen to the end of the interview!
What a gutless wonder. She said it, she meant it. Now she has second thoughts. I thought BO told her to get into their faces?
Of course, push comes to shove, Demoncats are the most unprincipled hypocritical demographic out there. Cur dogs, they are.
Speaking of mongrels now because of BO millions of Sheeple will chase the breed of dog his family gets instead of him getting a loving loyal mutt from the pound. The Marxist is all about appearances. It’s just sickening.
First thought in my mind: If the father is career military someone dropped a call on him and told him to back off. Get along, go along.
But perhaps it is the other: I took some abuse as a kid and really resented it. My parents told me that was how the world worked, learn what I could and roll with the punches. Go for the education and ignore the rest. But that was the 50s and 60s. I had hoped we moved beyond that. Guess not.
Reason 644 to pull your kids out of public school.
No, I am sick and tired of teachers using a child for a punching bag to express their political opinions. Had a McCain supporting teacher done this to a student my reaction would be the same.
It is time to put the fear of God into teachers who job is to educate, not pontificate, not indoctrinate, not social engineer. They can check their personal opinions in at the door.
We had political discussions like this all the time when I was in school. You could have a great didscussion of the candidates and issues. You could never tell if your teachers was a Democrat or Republican. Teachers wore no buttons. School was an island for academic exploration.
This piece of dirt brow beats a fifth grade girl, who has had to live in terror for a year praying her dad did not come home in a body bag or with parts blown off or with a catastrophic head injury.
And this teacher is sarcastically and with reat delight telling the child she is stupid becasuse McCain is going to make your daddy put you through that over and over and over again. After doing that I do not give a rats rear what happens to that teacher.
When a beating is over it’s over. A verbal beating lasts a long, long, time.
Why my approach? If I am the superintendent I want every teacher to know that I will not tolerate a teacher like that and if they do it they get a professional death sentence. I want every student to know that no teacher has the lattitude to treat a student in the manner this teacher did. And I want that individual humiliated. She merits the treatment.
If you are a teacher you have a huge responsibility. If you cannot be a professional get the flock out.
Let’s say that same incident happened except it was a black student who said “Obama” and it was a white teacher who was trying to “challenge the student to vote McCain”… AND let’s say the student her parents felt the teacher did nothing wrong…any chance Al Sharpton and his bullhorn WOULDN’T be protesting in front of that school?
gippergirl, 100% the junior Justice brother would be there bullhorn in hand, with extra batteries in his pocket.
OMGosh! The parents are brainwashed too!
If this were reversed, the teacher’s bags would be packed before the final bell!
Public School teachers are NOT allowed to influence politics.
Socialism at its best!
sarahconnor41 said:
Having dealt with inappropriate teacher behavior and the “consequences” of bringing it to the school’s attention(i.e., circling the wagons and subsequent passive-aggressive actions to punish parents for bringing this stuff up), I’m not surprised we’re seeing this reaction from the girl’s parents.
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Absolutely right, Sarah. These parents don’t want their little girl to be further abused, humiliated or punished by her alleged ‘teachers’ and their protectors in the administration and union.
And since the daddy is in the military, he really is constrained by what he can say – especially when the Commander in Chief will soon be the Obamessiah.
The only option for them is either private school or, better yet, home school.
Who hired this woman? I realize the quality of public education has gone sharply downhill, but this woman is beyond the pale. Which individual interviewed her, spoke with her and then said, “oh yeah, this one’s great, let’s hire her”? That person needs to be fired! If it’s impossible to make a clean sweep, let’s get them one at a time.
Reason #645 My youngest daughter was told she would need to do community service to graduate from college.
It really doesn’t matter what the parents think, the school board has a responsibility as to what goes on in the classroom. They need to set the standards not two parents who are scared of retribution on their child.
I’d like to know how the whole film plays out, not just this clip. Is the rest of it this bad? This was part of a film to be shown in a foreign country! Is that how we want America to be portrayed around the world? Shame on that teacher and that school.
Oh. I forgot The One is a citizen of the world. They probably loved it.
Follow a stupid kid home, someone stupid answers the door. Same logic applies to follow a kid to school.
Here’s another Arabic word:
Mumtaz! /s
Here’s my fave exclamation:
Oy!
Here’s an American word:
Homeschool.
So, when will big government start paying parents to homeschool their children?
Well said.
When pigs are flying to escape the fury of frost bitten devils.
the teachers punishment should have nothing to do with the kids parents and their ability to look past this. The (horrible) teacher should be punished and removed – give her a lunch room job.
perhaps the parents are BHO supporters?
who cares – the lady needs to go.
I understand the challenge. I have a sister who teaches, her daughters teach as well. It might be easier to swim up Niagara Falls than trying to teach in a school infested with “union” teachers.
I can not think of one good reason why school vouchers are not a good idea.
Just shut up and report to the cotton fields as ordered you G**D****D White Devils!!!
/sarc off
Wait, I can’t believe nobody caught this:
The teacher said the Name of Jesus.
(Granted, it was as a swear word, but she still said it.)
Separation of Church and State!!!
Call the ACLU!!!!!
Political correctness has made its way into the DNA
We have lost. This country is lost. Nothing can be done. All that is left is to watch it collapse into a huge pile of rubble. Nothing can save it.
No matter what the girl’s parents say, this teacher needs to be fired. Even if it brings “The Reverend” Jesse Jackson to tears.
My heart went out to the little girl when I saw the vid, I can only imagine what she must feel like now that her parents won’t defend her…that is appalling.
Of course the teacher should be fired and never allowed to teach again, at least not at government expense.
All these small but significant actions we see on occasion, the abuse by a stupid teacher and the arrest of the citizen in Phil. P,A. for wearing a shirt remind me of the films I’ve seen of Germany in the ’30s. Hang on folks it’s going to get ugly.
I will never submit, NEVER!
Just as the Teacher’s Union. They have plenty of
reasonslies.“I should not have said that” equates to “Maybe I should not have let my true feelings come through at that time, I don’t know yet, we’ll have to wait and see how it plays out”.
Ridicule is never a positive teaching tool. Parentally approved or not.
Which only proves two things: One is that that’s the method her parents use and the second is her parents have now given approval to the abuser to continue using the method of ridiculing their daughter as a teaching tool.
The parents now have no recourse for such abuses in the future no matter how many tears she might come home with.
The parents are being supportive of the teacher because they know any other action would result in a backlash from outside sources ( i.e. black and liberal antagonists). They don’t want to put their child through that because they’d never be able to protect her. ” No one else would say it so I will” time.
Amercia has spoken.
This is the way it is in this country at this time.
The anti-war, anti-conservative, anti-Bush crowd has won the day.
Complaining about teachers is not going to do anything.
They have won for now.
It is going to take much more of a collapse for conservativism to be able to make a rebound.
I think we are just going to have to watch more and more depressing things occur until things get so bad that the morons need saving.
If you haven’t watched the movie Idiocracy, you should. Not a good movie, but it will give you a chuckle at how screwed up a liberal run country can get.
Michelle, I’m sure the situation out there is worse than you think.
I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the world. Everything can be recovered. Stop wallowing and start rebuilding.
I would like to get my apology to the world in first.
I apologize for the ignorant American people who voted this Obama travesty upon an unsuspecting world. I’m truly sorry, there weren’t enough of us smart American people to save America and the world from the horror of Obamunism.
This vermin of a teacher did and said what is in her heart. She displays the same hatred of a Rev Wright sermon directed at a 10 year old little girl (Who appears to be white). She no longer deserves to be around our children, than I am the Queen of England.
I find it funny that now the shoe is on the other foot. Now some lefty windbag has to sit in front of the camera and say sorry for some “innocuous” comment. As mentioned before though, she’s only “sorry” because she was caught and people like us called her on it. That needs to happen every time their side makes even the slightest gaffe. The fight’s not over. Keep your head up.
She is not a teacher, she is a gang leader and her gang is the rest of the class. She draws strength from the other children’s giggles of approval.
If classmates see the class leader ridiculing another student in the classroom and in front of them, they think its OK for them to do the same…and children can be merciless toward one another.
Dammit
You are all talking like victims.
STOP IT
I failed a dozen times before I became successful.
Start at the local level and become proactive.
Seekers, Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen Lyrics:
Chorus:
Nobody knows the
trouble I’ve seen;
Nobody knows my sorrow.
Nobody knows the
trouble I’ve seen;
Glory, Hallelujah!
(Repeat chorus)
Sometimes I’m up,
sometimes I’m down;
Oh, yes, Lord.
Sometimes I’m almost
to the groun’,
Oh, yes, Lord.
(Chorus)
I wish that I could find a way;
Oh, yes, Lord,
But life is just one
long, rainy day;
Oh, yes, Lord.
(Chorus)
Glory, Hallelujah!
Lyrics: Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, Seekers
Yeah, I’ve heard that tune before…spinning out of control.
Anyone who saw what happened to Joe the Plumber is on notice: Exercising free speech places you and your loved ones in danger.
Maybe Kathy knows she’ll never come out on the right side of this whole mess because the teacher looks more like the President-elect than she does. Sorry, but I fear that is how it’s going to be for the next four years.
Oops! I guess I have a strong opinion about this after all.
I agree familyman. Its going to be a hard fight with all of the media already aligned to soften all of obama’s marxist views.
We can overcome. We must educate all the lost souls who voted for this Obama.
There were only 5 or 6 million more that voted for him than those of us who agreed our country is more important than white guilt!
Tomorrow is always gonna be a little bit better if we make it our destiny to take back what the liberals are doing to our country.
Right now we are slightly disadvantaged.
When odds are not in my favor I often reflect on the opening lyrics of an old Moody Blues song to give me motivation;
“Blasting, billowing, bursting forth, with the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes”
As a teacher (chemistry), I can tell you from experience that the new mantra for public education should be the following:
Nothing is your fault. You are not responsible for your actions, as you will always be able to find an excuse for your mistakes.
Some directives from the bosses at my district:
1. Students cannot receive a grade lower than 50. EVER.
2. Students can turn in late work anytime until the end of the semester.
3. If a student fails the first semester, they can pass the second and get full credit for the year.
4. If a student has an average within two points of passing, they must be given the extra points to pass.
5. If you fail tests, the tests you take afterwards can replace the failure.
It goes on and on. Don’t believe me? You can’t imagine how horrific public school education is now unless you are a part of it.
Hate to say it but this is the reason this ol’ ammotroop gave up on the “Troops To Teachers” program and decided on a career with honor – Cable TV.
I took the classes and was in college taking Education classes hoping to teach History at a HS level but the politics of Education sickened me to such a degree I said the hell with it.
Don’t get me wrong, Teaching is a fine career with many wonderful wonderful people doing an incredible job, but it’s not a PROFESSION. Except in a few cases and in private institutions there are no professional standards and the thugs in the organization do everything they can to keep the job from becoming a profession. They like to think they’re on league with the AMA or the ABA because they have the NEA. They might as well be part of the Teamsters for all the professionalism that the NEA espouses.
Thank you rooster.
I’m not trying to be a cheerleader but……
Talk to your neighbors who are Obama supporters and explain the conservative views.
Explain why our constitution was designed to limit the powers of the government.
Explain how the IRS distorts the economy and creates corruption in government.
Explain why school vouchers are good for the country.
Explain why a smaller government is better.
If we all can change three peoples minds in the next two years, we will begin to take our culture back. Do nothing and you’ve become the victim.
Teach your children well..that is an old CSNY song.
Does he or doesn’t he? I am so tired of the rumors, my husband came back with one from Liberia…okay on the plane ride home, this is the conversation. Hawaii can’t realse any documents, because they don’t exist. Kenya won’t release any documents because they do exist. What denotes American Citizenship his mother’s designation? His father wasn’t an American. Is this going to get put to rest finally. If Barack Obama was born say in Kenya, is his mother being an Amerian, enough to make him an American even though his father wasn’t?
http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/11/where-is-that-pesky-birth-certificate.html
Perhaps the bigger lesson was for the other children in the class: see what happens when you stray from the party line? (Everyone who is Democrat is safe, just repeat “Hope and Change” or to mention that He’s Black.)
Just
wordsbias. Hurtful bias.That’s OK, she was exercising her right to exprizzle her thug thizzle. Nothing wrong with that. She’s just playin’. After all, the cameras were on. She wouldn’t have said anything that inane and actually be serious about it, right? I mean, come on, what’re you, racist? Oh, Lord. Oh, Jesus.
I don’t need a body language expert to understand what the teacher’s gestures and sideways-downward look toward the girl during her “100 years” remark meant. Editing didn’t create that. She apologized for the remark, but the condescension was blatant, which makes me wonder what she’s like without the cameras around.
Thanks, William Amos, for the link to the interview with the teacher. I’m curious to know if there’s video of her reaction to the black child who supported McCain. The mother of the girl extended an olive branch, which was smart and not so smart at the same time. Smart because her daughter has to go back to the school, not so smart because she’s capitulating to demagoguery that will justify more of this behavior in the future.
I don’t want the teacher to be Joe the Plumbercized, but I don’t think she should get off scott-free, either. This crap has to stop immediately, and P.E.O. better nip it in the bud
ifwhen it continues.No, conservatives are better than that; don’t mention Reverend Wright… keep the high road… and lose.
It would matter if his mother could produce some official orders assigning her to some mission in Kenya.
I have 3 children all born in Germany who are US citizens because I was stationed there for my country.
McCain’s father was stationed in Panama for Juan’s birth, which McCain gave to the lawyer that has sued both McCain and Obama.
McCain provided everything needed to prove he was eligible, Obama told the court and the citizens of this country, “Go F@(k yourself”
TXGator…do you live in the DISD? Their new rules are for the birds! However the Fort Worth ISD isn’t a lot better.
One of my sons had a elem school teach that went off the deep end when he was in her class. My older son had her as a teacher and she was wonderful but in our younger son’s
year with her, she started stealing the children’s lunches and leaving an uncolored page of
a coloring book in it’s place. The children were sharing lunches with the children whose
lunches were stolen and the school year was nearly over before any of the parents found out that anything was going on. The class had closed ranks around the teacher and were
protecting her. It wasn’t until a child went into diabetic shock that we or the other teachers
and principal at the school discovered her condition. When she wasn’t stealing lunches, she was her usual terrrific self apparently and the children loved this self. This may be
part and parcel what is going on at that school. Besides the fact that parents probably
didn’t want their child singled out as a troublemaker. They may know more about the
school than we do. I do know that the next year, a teacher that had some of the students in our sons class ( not him, however) asked the children if they were going to
drive her crazy. When they told their parents and the parents complained, she said she
was only teasing. However, she was never really at ease with these students for the entire year and made no bones about the fact that she didn’t trust the parents or children to not cause her trouble.
For anyone who would dismiss this because of the parents I say you have no understanding of ever having been a fifth grader. It took a lot of courage to disagree the first time and instead of reasonable discussion by the teacher it earned her ridicule from the authority figure and from her classmates. I would bet a sizable amount that she told her parents it was not a big deal to avoid a repeat of the incident and further scrutiny. This was totally unacceptable since it was not designed to teach civics but to cheerlead for one particular candidate. So sad.
TXRose,
There is no way I would send my child to a public school. It is indoctrination at its finest. There are troubles with all schools, as you can’t expect every teacher to do the right thing. I hope you got your situation settled.
I’m down here in the Houston area, and it’s getting bad. I can only fail 2 kids per class without getting hauled into the office to explain why I’m failing so many poor students. At what point did it become the teachers fault when the student failed?
It’s getting silly out there, and, unfortunately, our future is its hands.
The superintendent investigated, that means he talked to young Cathy and her parents and made sure that they kissed Harris’ a$$. The parents and Cathy want it done and over with. I bet this Cathy girl gets lots of attention from her classmates and none of it good since like Harris, i’m sure a large proportion of them are victims too.
I hear you, SoCal. I’m trying to keep to the high road as long as I can until the path crumbles away. The cracks are already forming.
I was looking forward to sending my son to a private school, but with the Obama Recession, I may not be able to afford it.
Laree, I read something awhile back that puzzled me
and I haven’t found anything to support or negate it.
The article said that he couldn’t count on his Mother’s
nationality because she wasn’t an Adult American long
enough before he was born to pass citizenship onto him as he was born outside of the US.
If anyone knows more about this, please enlighten us
because I have never heard of this until I read the
article on the net and now cannot remember where it
was.
This whole video was normal (minus the politics) for my education in Texas from Headstart through 5th grade. Fortunatley it was the exception, not the norm, from 6th through 12th.
I cant say much though. My daughter lived with her mom in a rural mid-American town last year, and her mom cared zero about her education. When I saw her report card in June, I would say her average was below a 70 (D). I figured she would do summer school (at best) but would fail the year. THE SCHOOL PASSED HER – WITH NO FOLLOW UP.
Now she lives in the land of the liberals and has better grades than her friends. They think she is a ‘brain’ and her goal is straight A’s.
TXGator, when my sons were in school, the public schools had yet to go to the dogs, in the FISD. Also, I
did a lot of extra schooling at home. They wanted to
attend with their friends, up until HS and then I sent
them to Nolan (Catholic-all boys at the time).
And the dumbing down of our childre nand society continues….
Besides it is only your children being assualted every day
It isn’t anything important, like missing the latest episode of Dancing with the Stars
Teach your children to turn the other cheek
Teach them to cower
Teach them to hide their true self
Teach them they really are the trash they are portrayed to be
What a country
The mantra of conservatives and John McCain….
Did anyone else notice how the father is sitting right there on the couch next to the mother, but they never show him on camera (except for his knee) and they never ask him anything? What the hell is that about? I’ll bet that he had an opinion, and I’d sure like to hear it, wouldn’t you?
Her parents should be locked up for child abuse. Idiots turning over their child to government for indoctrination.
My liberal co-worker is excited about this… he says it is so much better than our young men being murdered in Iraq.
I want to see how Dear Leader’s going to enforce this. He’s already getting nastygrams from I’m A Nut Job. Perhaps the Hitler Youth will go door to door, seeking proof?
So the parents are ok with the abuse of their daughter? Only means they are also responsible for the abuse. Brace yourselves, this is only going to get worse. Verbal abuse and hatred is being widely condoned by the Left. Another example: California and opponents of Prop 8.
I can. Government money always has government strings attached to it. You think the educrats will fade into that good night just because we issue vouchers and suddenly the public school population drops precipitiously? Heck, no. They will have to “oversee” all those private and home schools receiving the funds. “For the children,” you know. How long before they are telling those recipients of “government” funds (vouchers) what their schools must and must not do? Who they can hire? What students they must admit? What subjects can/cannot be required?
Better to do as WarEagle (I think) suggested yesterday and bring the public schools crashing down under their own weight.
I’ve got one even scarier quote for you:
“You can’t make Socialists out of individualists–children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.”
Unlike Hitler, John Dewey is publicly revered by most of the educrat establishment. Much of modern US educational philosophy goes back to Dewey. Which might explain why we have so many people who can’t think for themselves. It isn’t that the schools failed — it’s that they succeeded.