NC Teacher Screams at Student: It’s Criminal to Criticize Obama
We read:
"A YouTube video uploaded on Monday afternoon apparently shows a schoolteacher from the Rowan-Salisbury school district in North Carolina informing a student that failing to be respectful of President Obama is a criminal offense. Breitbart News has uncovered that the student is a high school junior, and that the teacher is apparently one Tanya Dixon-Neely.
The video shows a classroom discussion about the Washington Post hit piece about Mitt Romney bullying a kid some five decades ago. One student says, “Didn’t Obama bully someone though?” The teacher says: “Not to my knowledge.” The student then cites the fact that Obama, in Dreams from My Father, admits to shoving a little girl. “Stop, no, because there is no comparison,” screams the teacher. Romney is “running for president. Obama is the president.”
The student responds that both are “just men.”
The teacher yells -- literally yells -- that Obama is “due the respect that every other president is due … Listen,” she continues, “let me tell you something, you will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom.” She yells over the student repeatedly, and yells at him that it's disrespect for him to even debate about Romney and Obama.
The student says that he can say what he wants.
“Not about him, you won’t,” says the teacher.
The teacher then tells the student – wrongly – that it is a criminal offense to say bad things about a president. “Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush? Do you realize you are not supposed to slander the president?”
The student says that it would violate First Amendment rights to jail someone for such sentiments. “You would have to say some pretty f’d up crap about him to be arrested,” says the student. “They cannot take away your right to have your opinion … They can’t take that away unless you threaten the president.”
Clearly, the student should be teaching the class, and the teacher should be reading the Constitution more often.
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14 comments:
After watching(listening) to the video, it strikes me that the irony is that the teacher, despite having proven her incompetency on tape, has zero chance of being removed from her position thanks to union support. A great example of why our country has faltered academically.
Hey someone needs to tell this teacher we have FREE SPEECH the same free speech that allows them to trash the TEA PARTY so there DARN LEFTISTS NEA
Could we all stop using the word
"need(s)" instead of the proper should, must or ought to. Nobody here actually "needs" to tell this
teacher anything, but they should.
Anon 122: you need to shut up. :-)
Another good reason to have heads of state that are above the politics, as in many countries, especially those with constitutional monarchies, where respect can be given (if deserved personally) to a figure-head symbol of the state, and all the vitriol can be poured on the mere prime-ministers and other political leaders (as Obama is now and such as the French presidents).
Quite clearly, this "teacher" is the product of affirmative action and diversity, not a product of education. That her obvious ignorance and racist views would blind her to the fact that political speech was the main reason for the creation of the First Amendment, is also quite clear. What is also obvious, is the fact that because of her race and gender, (and union membership) no one will dare remove her, question her, or, God forbid, remove her, an action that is clearly called for.
Have you ever heard schools refered to as "indoctrination camps"? Now you know why. It is a disgrace that this would happen in a public school, and even more disgraceful that it would be tolerated.
Not hard to identify the teacher's stage of grief, is it?
So I guess all liberals are like this teacher just as all conservatives are like Bird of Paradise.
I usually discount all 6 sigma leftists as well as all 6 sigma conservatives, assuming that the political spectrum is a bell curve.
wow, another delusional Democrat. Sad to be so unhappy.
the boy knows more about the constitution than the so called teacher, she should be fired.
No Anon 6:10, all liberals are not like this teacher. But, it's those liberals who created, and are responsible for, people like this "teacher".
I am thrilled that there are still students like this - and saddened that there are teachers like this.
Someone ought to give the kid an award.
That's a brave student! Very few students will take on the person who determines their grade.
The teacher has been suspended
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