Swedish Documentary Shows the Extremism of a Teacher Supporting Obama
Via Belchpeak comes the following excerpt of a documentary made by Swedish television (belchpeak say they’re from Finland, but most others say it’s Swedish) on supporters of Barack Obama. Watch it. This clip shows how a black female teacher who supported Obama singled out a white girl in one of her classes, to bully her about her and her parents’ support for John McCain.
Partial transcript with some comments from Belchpeak.com:
Diantha Harris: It’s a senseless war! [Stares at Kathy.] And by the way, Kathy, the person that you’re picking for president said [Harris shakes her head] that our troops could stay in Iraq for another hundred years if they need to! [Kathy bites her lip, looks ashamed. Other kids stare at Kathy, laugh, smirk.] So that means that your daddy could stay in the military for another hundred years!
[later in an interview] Diantha Harris: Now I can support whomever I want to support, as long as I don’t browbeat another person for the candidate that they supported. Like I have some students that support John McCain, and when they told me that, I said ah … “that’s good’ and I just moved on. So, I think that everybody is entitled to their own personal opinion.
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This is a story that the Tundra Tabloids broke as well as uploading to You Tube. Please give due credit where it?s deserved. M.Malkin did not break the story, I did, this past Monday. KGS
http://tundratabloid.blogspot.com/2008/11/swedish-documentary-shows-ashville.html
And the Asheville newspaper Citizen-Times recognizes that fact.
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881106074
The Documentary was made by a Swedish film crewm and the story broken by me, a Finnish/American blogger who resides in Finland. KGS
Good work, KGS. This teacher should be dismissed from her position, period.
The issue here is not the extremism, it is the complete lack of professional ethics. Teachers are in a position of power over their students and to use that power to intimidate or shame them for having political opinions that disagree with the teacher’s is a highly unethical act.
All the more so given the age of the little girl. This tactic is wrong at the university level, unforgivable at the elementary. There’s a lot of mock outrage in the media, but this episode truly is shocking.
Reprehensible.
Another excellent example of why we MUST have school vouchers. The biggest mistake made in this country was letting education fall into the hands of political radicals.
Mikel, I feel you. Remember 2 things, tho. First, most teachers and administrators are not radicals but good people trapped in a bad situation. Second, vouchers are a tool to create choice, not an end in themselves. Choice is what matters so we can marginalize radicals by moving our kids away from them.
Here is the Cumberland County Board of Education:
http://www.communications.ccs.k12.nc.us/Board/BOE.htm
Email them all. I just did.
Larry Lancaster
lll@nc.rr.com
Kim Fisher
KimberlyPFisher@aol.com
Greg West
GregWest@nc.rr.com
Mac Williams
MacWilliams@nc.rr.com
Helen Farrior
HFarrior@nc.rr.com
Donald LaHuffman
DLaHuffman@nc.rr.com
Frank Barragan
FKBarragan@nc.rr.com
Mary Emily Royal
Royalme@nc.rr.com
Macky Hall
MackyH@nc.rr.com
In my opinion, this woman shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a classroom! What a bully! Thanks for posting about this.
This isn’t a teacher, she’s a brain-washer. Totally unacceptable and completely in line with what we hear is going wrong in our classrooms.
The indoctrination of our children by the government monopoly of schools will only worsen unless we Americans cry bloody murder! The following is from theapple.com website:
“Obama and Biden have big plans for what they call ?Zero to Five.? This plan focuses on children from birth to five years of age and their parents. It supports early education and universal pre-school. They want to quadruple Early Head Start funding. Their efforts for this age group will be closely tied to their efforts to provide quality health care for this young age group. Obama?s health care program may make the funding for these early childhood programs difficult to carry out in the scope that they?ve planned.”
Remember…The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world…
This teacher was not only browbeating her students who chose John McCain, but if you listen closely, after one of the kids said they were pulling for McCain, she said “JESUS” and took our lords name in vein in a classroom of very young children. She should be fired and is one of the reasons our education systrm is failing to provide a quality education. This woman couldn’t even use proper engilsh.