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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PKAmmoTroop #70 I thought about going Troops to Teacher’s too, but couldn’t believe all the classes I would have to go back to college to earn a teaching certificate. I busted my butt to get a Manufacturing Engineering degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale from the satellite campus program at Travis AFB. Some how I carried a full load while working a full time job thanks to the support of my wife and son managing to graduate cumulate without losing my mind. I was also an Instructor Boom Operator able to teach and certify anyone to refuel another aircraft in-flight, ran training programs after being grounded to ensure Airmen and NCOs progressed in the appropriate Air Force skill level required for further career progression, and as a simple servant wrote the lesson plan for the Cost Per Flying Program for Air Force Financial courses taught at the School House at Kessler AFB, but I would still have to take their core classes before I could be certified to teach little Johnny or Jane.
I didn’t even think about having to deal with a Union. I won’t even talk to the folks at the Air Force Government Employees Local on base even though I could join if I wanted to. It makes me appreciate working for the Air Force again. Although our experiences with the teaching industry does explain why it is so hard to find good competent teachers in our state run school system.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
Is it any wonder that so many “educated” people are actually so stupid, when they are taught by teachers like Harris. Accent aside, she can’t even use proper English to communicate her thoughts.
The lack of even basic common sense escapes the little girl’s mother. For her to repeat that “Ms. Harris was right…”My husband might be in the military another hundred years…” is beyond ignorant. Not to mention that the teacher’s assertion was a distortion of what Sen. McCain actually said about Iraq involvement. How ironic!
Finally, “the video was edited” to portray her in a bad light? She said what she said regardless of any editing. Now if it was a “cut and paste” job, she would have an argument about context. No apology offered for her demonstrations after the students “McCain” answers, though. That’s what bothered me the most.
Boomer, a couple of years ago, the state of TX declared that all teachers in the
HS systems across the state MUST take competency tests. In other words, Math
teachers had to be competent in their specialty, and so on. There was a teacher, shown on the news, in the Dallas ISD that took her test somewhere over 50 times and could not pass it. Finally, around the 54th time she “squeaked” through and barely made a passing grade. Now this was not a young teacher but a woman who had been teaching for at least two decades.
She was interviewed and tried to portray herself as the victim. She said that
because she was Black she was given a harder test. When that didn’t fly, she said that the Math problems were “too new” and she had not had time to study.
She also tried to say that they only interviewed her because she was Black
and had failed the test so many times and where was a White teacher who
had failed the test. I don’t know what criteria was used (other than the amount of times she failed) to decide to interview her, but it was sickening.
If I had young children today I would home school.
Perhaps the BAV (Black American Vernacular) is acceptable everywhere now, and the teacher is simply bi-lingual.
If she is comfortable saying this in front of a camera crew it’s scary to think what she is saying to these kids when they are alone.
I remember bringing newspaper or magazines clippings to school (back in the
dark ages) about current events. I do not ever remember hearing a teacher,
until I was a Senior in HS (and that was, if you are old enough to vote-Vote!),
ever giving a personal opinion on the what we were discussing, except for my
science teacher in the 4th grade. Her husband was a weather man and she used to tell us stories about his work and how she felt about what he did. She also took us to her home to see his “homemade” back yard weather stations and let us lie in the grass in the school yard while we drew clouds on dark blue construction paper, with white chalk. But I digress…that was my only year in public school and it was in AZ.
I guess that I either lucked out or the AZ and South TX public and Catholic
schools were better back then.
TXRose #99 my wife has plans to quit working when our granddaughter is old enough for home schooling. She turns 1 year old on 13 December and it is amazing how quickly she absorbs what we have been teaching her already. We don’t want her ability to learn damaged or other kids holding her back by having to be in the failing public school system. Thanks for sharing about Dallas school system I have a brother that lives in McKinney, TX and he and his wife plan to keep them in private school.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
Amazing! Ms. Harris is the victim. She’s taped being a bully and somehow the tape was “edited.”
This little girl’s parents are being gracious, publicly. They may not believe that they have a choice. They may want to get their daughter out of the spotlight.
When my daughter was in high school, a bunch of bullies beat up one of the students during a basketball game. The student’s mother gave me a song and dance about how deprived the bullies were, they were victims, etc. It was easy forher to say that because she was not the one taken to the emergency room, did not have to return to the high school, etc. I was more enraged than the mother of the boy. I never spoke to her again.
Her son is now 28,still lives at home and is unable to hold a job. I sometimes wonder if things would be different if his mother had been more supportive when he was younger.
Wrong is wrong is wrong. Everyone in that school sees that the teacher is getting off the hook with fake tears. All of the kids see that this behavior is ok, as long as you cry. They also know that their grades are on the line if they complain. The parents know that this lady will attack anyone at anytime. This is not new behavior.
Teachers are leaders. People expect them to behave as leaders. The kids will follow her example.
My prayers for the little girl.
Question;
What do public school teachers make for ten months work? I’ve been out of the loop to long. Can’t we attract decent people?
LOL, so I got spun up a while ago and gave my teenager a basic course on ‘Supply and Demand curves’, ‘micro/macro economics’ and ‘commodities/substitues’.
She held in there and didnt glaze over until about 30 minutes in.
I used our new Wii game system, our food pantry and the current economic situation as our real-life examples.
Side note:
Im thinking about taking her to watch the Electoral College vote if it is open to the public.
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4. Hold the Meeting of Electors
On the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December (December 15, 2008), the electors meet in their respective States. The State legislature may designate where in the State the meeting will take place, usually in the State capital. At this meeting, the electors cast their votes for President and Vice President.
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It takes a special kind of personality to homeschool and even though I would love to, I know I don’t have the patience and am not cut out for it.
What I DID do is read non-stop to my kids from the first day they came home from the hospital. Librarians grimaced when they saw me coming. It was nothing to get 75 books out on a Monday and come back for another load on Wednesday.
My kids are in gifted classes — although I’ve seen and heard some troubling stuff that makes me want to pull them out of there. The only people around me that can afford to send their kids to private/parochial schools are doctors and lawyers — of which I am neither.
I was a Journalism major and could teach kids about writing all day long, but when it comes to math and science, I would doubt my abilities. I’ve heard of home-schooling co-ops (the closest is about 30 miles away) that rotate subjects among parents, thus giving students the best-qualified teacher for each subject. If I could find a deal like that, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
Maybe we could find enough retired conservative teachers to build a network for premium education at the grassroots level? Perhaps it could run on some type of barter system or $$ to the teachers. Can you imagine what a nationwide coalition like this would do to state-run schools?
Great idea!
My sister in Moore, OK is currently homeschooling her youngest. She is
now 16 and has been homeschooled since she was 8. Prior to that she
was in private school and even there had a teacher that absolutely would
not say a kind word to her. I don’t know whether it was because my sister is such a beautiful, young looking Grandmother and this teacher is
someone with “old” genes, who looks 50 at 35 or if it was my niece and
something about her that angered the woman but when my sister and bil
complained the school would not even talk to the teacher. That’s when
they decided to homeschool. My sister takes classes and has a network
that she works with on lesson plans. My niece takes tests at regular
intervals and is doing great! They also have a support network through
their church and other avenues so that she doesn’t miss out on a social
life with her peers. This is the second child she has homeschooled.
I did the thing with the books also, and to this day my one dil despairs of
ever getting rid of all the books we all have between us.
Wait. You’re saying the parents don’t care and the student doesn’t care, so why do you care?
You’re creating a controversy to serve your own agenda. Leave it alone.
Sandyb…it would have to be older teachers. When I listen to the news and
the way the talking heads mangle the English language and listen to young
people talk and what they do to the language….
Did you know that you borrow people money? That you took’n, or bought’n
just to name two.
I heard a young man try to explain (he was eating lunch at a table next to
mine) what his girlfriend’s puppy did to her apartment and he finally came up
(trying to be delicate, I guess) with…he fecallated all over the room!
You should hear what I have heard in sessions!
The really sad thing is that this teacher is victimizing this little girl a second time. First by berating her in class and second by having her sit there and defend the teacher for what the TEACHER said.
To literally go there and ask that little girl and her family to bail her out of the mess she created is doubly sad.
I dont know if its coincidence or that I should be paranoid, but about two minutes after I posted the link to the Electoral College site, it looks like the website crashed.
It could have been that two of us did it, OR its the 1000 lurkers out there that I had no idea about until this past week.
There were peoples screennames that popped up that I hadnt seen in a year or two! I have to remember that I read this site for a couple of years myself before I was added to the site also.
Oh BTW, if the site crashed, since its a .gov link, dont fully expect it to be back up until Tue. I’ll repost the link later for others to read on Monday.
BHO’s thugs probably got to them and said he may not be in Iraq for 100 years, but arrangements could be made for a less desirable position if he doesn’t help put out this fire.
I know, but I’m just trying out my new tin foil hat for conservatives I just received in the mail.
Back when I was in high school (1977)
my civics teacher always referred to Jimmy Carter as a ‘weak sister’.
Dude was right!!
If you have to ask the question then you’re part of the problem.
Parents need to care. But constructively, not with ‘My little Johnny is always innocent, keep your hands off of him’.
Parents have let the education system disintegrate over the last generation or so. Its time to recapture it. All of these millions of dollars from lotteries and increased taxes that are designated specifically to the education funds BUT even so, our education system is worse now than in the 1960’s.
10 million dollar school buildings, increased testing, metric studies and diversity B.S. are nowhere near as important as a parent just taking the time to be interested in their own childrens education on a DAILY basis.
Here’s a new story on the Minnesota recount for Coleman vs Franken.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/11/22028.php?format=print
Some thoughts on this (in no particular order).
1. How old are your kids? If they are high school, then I could see where this might be an issue. But if they are in grade school, then no one would be asking you to teach them physics or calculus this year. One of the greatest things about homeschooling is giving yourself the education you never had. (I still resent the way the government schools cheated me.) Most any competent adult can teach elementary math and science — and then learn with your kids as they get more advanced.
2. Depending on the school, their public school teachers may not be that much more prepared than you. I know I had a least one science teacher with a degree in agricultural education. And my calculus teacher was given the class at last minute. Yes, he had studied calculus — in college 20 years earlier. We kind of learned (or in his case, re-learned) together. (I also had a trig teacher that was pretty bad. But if a girl wore her blouses with enough buttons open, she could get a good grade …)
3. There are many ways to homeschool without being the actual teacher, particularly for upper level courses. There are video classes, Internet classes, as you mentioned, co-op classes, and college classes.
How do these children’s test scores look? Are they scoring at grade level or above? Do they understand math concepts? Can they program the computer using simple programming language? Can they speak conversationally in other languages or read and write in Enlish, Spanish and/or Cantonese? Can they explain characteristics of invertebrates, point to Japan or Togo on a map? Australia? Do they know whether Canada is north or south of the US and where the Atlantic Ocean is located? Do they know anything about DNA? What can they tell us about American Government, US or that in their own state? Can they name their governor, US Senators and Representatives? Can they name our current Vice President? Do they know what the Bill of Rights is? Have they read the constitution in school? Do they know parts of speach and punctuation? Can they write a good letter or a compelling story? Can they draw using perspective, paint mixing colors from the primaries or compose and score simple music? Have they read Shakespeare, or Barack Obama? Can they name the Supreme Court Justices? Do they know who Clarence Thomas is? These kids are in Grade 5. In eight years, they will be headed for college. On what planet would any DECENT teacher waste one second propagandizing with so much for them to learn in order to be compentent, successful and productive once they leave school, when the clock is ticking for these children, for their futures and for us as a society. I don’t care what kind of pity party this awful woman throws. Cathy doesn’t look happy to me in any of those videos, but oh well. I don’t care whether her parents support this teacher or not. Anyone looking at that video can see the abuse, bullying and indoctrination going on. Ms Harris should not be in the classroom PERIOD. No way, no how.
I think the general rule (and Im not kidding) is that you only have to be one day smater than your students.
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now Im paranoid
~ two minutes after I posted the .gov web site was down, its BACK UP (by the power vested in me by MM…!!)
I’m part of the problem because I think I think the parents and student are in the best position to make a judgment about this encounter? Call it a hunch, but I think the parents probably know their child and the teacher better than Michelle Malkin and are better able to put the incident in the correct context.
Would you prefer federal oversight on all schools to make judgments on such situations? Personally, I think we should leave it up to parents to determine what is appropriate in the classroom. I also think my view better embodies conservative principles.
She says the film crew “pacifically” asked her to discus the election. I guess it’s too much to expect an elementary teacher to know that the word is “specifically.”
oops, typo on “discuss”
Everyone has a right to a quality public education.
Why should anybody have this right taken away from them by inept adminstrators and teachers?
If we’re passive and isolated, we’ll have these rights taken away from our children.
Don’t let the schools get away with this. Complaints from organized groups of parents can’t be ignored.
If Ms. Harris can’t be fired, then it would be nice if the parents got the right to visit her classes while she’s on probation.
You mean to say that we cant watch tht video and make our own judgements ? Or that we have to accept what the child believes and an adult who is playing the vitim right now ?
Keep in mind the parents werent there as well.
I am shocked that the parents don’t care about what they saw on the tape. If that passes for “normal” in a public school classroom it means things are even worse than I ever imagined.
This one episode adds about a dozen more reasons to the now near-infinite list why my children have never spent a day in public schools. If someone were to browbeat my kids like that they would regret it for the rest of their very brief career.
Nobody can tell me what the woman did wasn’t WRONG. Switch the name from Obama to McCain or Barr or Baldwin or Keyes and that teacher would have been out of work the very next day. If leftists didn’t have double standards they would have no standards at all.
This is one of those parsing of the question things, sort of on the order of ‘the definition of is’.
Your question was:
1) You’re saying the parents don’t care
2) the student doesn’t care,
3) so why do you care?
Exactly. Thats why we care (because there is a problem).
So you made a giant leap from a classroom issue, (bypassing local school board/teachers union/state) to a federal issue (Legislative, Dept of Ed or NEA). The Federal government already has its hands too deep into the classroom. The government has already said ‘you will teach xyx to this proficiency and the parents will not have a direct influence into what is taught inside the classroom’.
Most parents do not care, which is why this country is in the shape that it is.
Fortunately, some parents care, even if it on this blog.
Sure you can make your own judgments. I just think the parents are in a far superior position to make such judgments.
Michelle was originally upset because she thought the teacher was abusing the child. The parents do not feel that way, and the child does not feel that way, so perhaps they know something we don’t. Either that, or they are incredibly stupid.
Limmo, colleges and universities are really working to get home schooled
students in their schools. They are scoring so much higher than most of
the public school students and higher than a lot of private school students. Could be that they are benefiting from the “smaller” classes or
that there are no distractions like there are in public schools or that the
parents don’t have an agenda other than teaching their children. Whatever it is, in most cases, it is working.
I will simply say that if it was my daughter or if I had seen one of her teachers behave like that, I would take Oblahblah’s advice and get in her face!
Too large of a leap in arguement (so in ascending order
0) Lessor arguments
More intense arguments
*1) They know something we dont
2) Median arguments
3) Nieve
4) Ignorant
5) Stupid
* 6) Incredibly stupid
7) We’re racist
I don’t think the leap was that great. My problem with the federal government meddling on local levels is that they are not in the best position to make such judgments.
You are not directly invovled in this situation, and I’m going to assume that it did not take place in your local area. How are you possibly in a better position than the parents to make a judgment in this situation?
By creating this outrage, you are basically asserting pressure in a local issue in which you do not belong. The only difference between this and federal oversite is that you are bypassing the government and doing the same work directly.
LOL == > 8 ) not
bluesoc, the parents more than likely do not want their child singled out because they
may have seen a previous incident(s) where this happened and the child eventually had
to leave the school because he/she did not have one peaceful day at school after the
incident. I have seen it happen and I have seen the consequences. Children will
happily bully a child that a teacher(s) is down on. The teacher gives them, at least,
tacit permission to go after that child. My children have come home telling me about
these sorts of incidences and even though they did not include my children, I have still
checked into them and made noise. Sometimes the parents are too passive or even too timid to speak out. Other times, they don’t know because the child doesn’t want to
“be a rat.” We have gotten them stopped, and in one town the teacher was let go
because she was racist. She did not like Mexican children at all. The teacher was
was a bully, and she encouraged the children in her class to be bullies. She had no
business being a teacher!
Im not with this exact situation, and I personally have not made a direct positional statement on this thread as to pro or con. If outside influence without government directive is an overall positive influence in order to advance discourse, then its a good thing. Maybe the outcome is only that these parents will be more involved from now on.
If this is just to ‘get a teacher fired’ then I am not in favor of attacking the teacher.
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You cant refer back to my post #85
I have intimate knowledge from within the educational system itself. I wont describe to that detail, just know Im not taking about having ‘gone to public school’. As a generality, I know how it works, plays and flows at almost all levels.
The bullying aside, the fact that this woman graduated from college and was hired as a teacher speaks volumes about how public schools have gone into the dumper.
If her dad is doing this in part to help his standing with his “new boss” he doesn’t deserve to wear the uniform.
I hope this is simply the parent’s misguided attempt to shield their daughter from some form of payback.
I have to admit I didn’t want my wife to be driving around with our daughter, having a McCain bumpersticker.
We all know how whack out most of the left is.
This woman can’t even speak English. How is it that she is teaching?
I can imagine the parents would be frightened for their child in the current atmosphere. And being military they can’t move anytime they please.
You know, to tell the truth, I actually don’t think she intended to bully the kid. I think she just fell prey to a common slip-up among teachers: thinking you can talk to a child in the same way you would talk to an adult.
Think about it. If this woman had said the exact same thing to an adult, would we consider that “bullying”? Of course not. But children are different. They’re inherently more emotional, and far more easily intimidated. If you exposed a child to the kind of heated argument you find on most political blogs they would be a puddle of tears inside of a minute. So it’s not so much that she’s a bully, it’s that she’s a bad teacher.
A good teacher would have known better than to do something like this. A good teacher would have known that you have to be more sensitive when you’re dealing with children (the younger the child, the more sensitive you have to be).
And of course, it goes without saying that a good teacher would never inject their own political biases into the classroom this way. It would be one thing if she were playing Devil’s Advocate against the class consensus, but that isn’t what this woman did. She was clearly trying to push her personal ideology on her students. Doubleplusungood indeed.
#138 Joy
Bingo, that is exactly what I thought, and sadly think about a lot of teachers. How can you be a teacher if you can’t speak proper english. When I was a kid (I’m 40) we had to speak proper english in every class or we would be reprimanded.
If they let people like this teach kids, there will be no english language in 20 years.
“English” is always capitalized…..
If the school district board does not protect this poor little girl, then the phone calls and emails should rain down upon them.
A group of three elipses would look like this……… They should be used in “groups” of one…
Also, spell out numbers of one hundred or less..
I’m just kidding, I don’ got no idea of how grammers shud be dun.
I have worked with people in their 30s who supposedly have college degrees and they cannot write a sentence, much less a paragraph, without multiple spelling, grammatical and even errors in logic. In the day of the word processor with automatic spell checking this is inexplicable and inexcusable.
Public schools are much more concerned with “self esteem” than teaching. Well, they are concerned wit the “self esteem” of little liberals. Obviously the aren’t quite so concerned about the self esteem of little conservatives.
This teacher needs a re-calibration of what decency and thoughtful discussion means.
To the Left doing whatever is needed to turn a class into right minded thinking is the “decent” thing to do. Those who are not right-minded are not deserving of a thoughtful discussion becasue they are stupid.
Those are the rules. We need to remember them, when we interact with The Left.
But that’s just it. They don’t see it as “turning” anyone. As far as they’re concerned, all they’re doing is telling the truth. They think their views are “moderate”.
The left only believes in freedom of speech if what you
are saying is what they want to hear. No dissent.
Engineers are always exempt from this policy!
On my daughters school assignments, even when a question would normally just expect a sentence fragment, I have her write in complete sentences. (Repeat the question, then answer the question)
If she has an assignment such as a ‘100′ word paragraph then I tell her to expect to double it (i.e. ‘200′ words) and then if its less than ‘200′ its a bonus.
If her assignment is an essay, then I have her type it into MS Word and then do a grammer check with the statistical analysis turned on also.
Re: the comment about elipses… wait for it… wait for it………..
Not directly involved, no. But if we can believe what we saw in that video, you cannot get away from the fact that the teacher’s behavior was very unprofessional. If it were me, I would not wimp out like these so-called parents and I would demand appropriate action be taken.
From Education Watch International. I agree, Dr. John Ray.
A perfect example of how our educational system indoctrinates our children in the fine art of “otherizing”.
Hmmm… I wonder if it was just a slip of the tongue, then? Instead of saying “Oh, John McCain,” she said “Oh, Jesus McCain”????
Wow! Someone who actually called him the Messiah…
We spend a lot of time on this blog commenting on issues in which we are not locally involved. Otherwise the blog would not exist. We’re not here talking about ourselves. We’re talking about the country and our perception of it going down the toilet. Besides . . .
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr.
So, now I know part of the reason kids aren’t learning anything in school these days! They have imbeciles for teachers.
Apparently, this teacher’s strong suit is Ebonics.
This, unfortunately, is the typical speech pattern of African Americans, whether they be teachers or not.
Reminds me of an old joke…
What did OJ Simpson say when his son requested help with homework?
“Go ax your mother.”
I teach in a small college, and I would never do the sort of thing this “teacher” did. And I am dealing with alleged adults! The most I might do in an idle conversation is play devil’s advocate, but still keep my opinions to myself
I am going to be my daughter’s teachers worst nightmare, reviewing her books and asking what she learned every day.
Nothing at will happen as a result of any “investigation”. In the new age that is just beginning to take the teacher to task in any meaningful way would be labeled “racist”.
SandyB @ 3:55 PM,
That is exactly how we ran our Webelos pack.
I swear the boys got more out of Webelos than they did public ed. during that time.
If you want to teach your children about gov’t, get a Webelos handbook and see what they expect in order to earn the badge. Then, do it!
The cr*pola on the video is disgusting and only serves to point out the low level of “education” being dished out to young minds.
I think the parents want to get the spotlight off this issue because they don’t want to end up like JTP. They are probably checking their options, very quietly, to get their daughter out of that classroom.
“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.”
Yeah, she was ‘only messing around’ when she insulted the kid and her dad’s service.
Bet she ‘messes around’ like that only with a select group of students. Three guesses as to which ethnicity, first two don’t count.
I’m with you there. I remember hearing a retired teacher discussing her re-entry to the classroom as a sub following years of retirement. She said that in the 50s, when she was in her prime, she could read stories to her class for 40 minutes and they hung in with her. Today, she was shocked by the lack of attention after a few minutes.
Of the super achievers and national merit scholar I know, the parents were adamant about no TV in the house or TV only for national emergencies.
I don’t know how it got through the MSM, but a couple years ago, it was widely reported when pediatricians came out against TV — any kind of TV — for babies and toddlers. The quick dissolves interfere with brain synapse development according to them.
And the most cogent argument I heard was, “How are black words on a white page ever going to compete with full-color, full-sound, split-second image changes when it comes time to read?
But no one directly involved thinks that it’s an injustice. The only people to think that are posting on conservative blogs.
Sometimes I think Michelle gets paid by how much she raises her readers’ blood pressure. A positive post is a rare thing around these parts.
Just wondering. What subject was the “teacher” teaching when this happened? Was it civics? Government? Science? Math? Literature? No one’s mentioned that.
Also, why in the blue blazes did the principle permit a political rally on the school campus during the day? If a pro-Obama was permitted, why was this not balanced with a pro-McCain rally?
The teacher was pushing an agenda. This is wrong for any professional to do on the job.
Still disgusted.
I’m so glad I home-school my kids through the Idaho Virtual Acedemy. Stories like this prove my decision was a sound one.
Don’t know if this was here already, but the FULL documentary is available online.
Windows Media Player Format:
http://svt.se/content/1/c8/01/29/47/53/081102billbarack.asx
RealPlayer Format:
http://svt.se/content/1/c8/01/29/47/53/081102billbarack.ram
Talks cheap-actions speak louder than words.
If the obamabot wants to apologise to her student for the little girl having her beliefs and feel thats enough. Think again…
Resign your position!
Resign your teaching license!
and then maybe people might take you seriously.
Rant off/
GSP