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This is ghastly. If you are a parent with elementary schoolchildren, you will hit the roof. A teacher in Cumberland County, N.C. near Fort Bragg was caught on tape by Finnish documentarians making a film about Barack Obama’s supporters. The teacher, Diantha Harris, uses the classroom as a propaganda vehicle to shove her politics down the children’s throats.

Watch her bully a little girl who dares to answer “McCain” when asked whom she supports for president. The child is the daughter of a soldier. Watch the teacher mock the girl and her father (”So that mean yo’ daddy could stay in Iraq for another hundred years!”). Watch the little girl’s eyes well up in tears. Is this the kind of education reform Barack Obama advocates?

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MARIANNA, Fla. - A school board has refused to fire a teacher over a racial slur aimed at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The Jackson County panel, instead, voted 3-2 Thursday to suspend Greg Howard without pay for 10 days, costing him about $2,500. He also was removed from coaching duties with the loss of related pay and ordered to take diversity training and write an apology to students.

Nearly 200 people attended the meeting with most demanding that the board fire Howard. Some parents say they'll ask the state to revoke his teaching certificate. During a seventh-grade class Howard reportedly wrote "CHANGE" on the blackboard as an acronym for "Come Help A (slur) Get elected."

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Originally posted by SignyM:
You see Rapo? I can troll the internet too. For every example YOU bring up, I can find another on the other side. Maybe even more.

So let's just agree that it's ugly whoever does it. That teachers with anti-war bumper stickers should be able to park in the school parking lot, as well as teachers with "God Bless America".

Personally, what I think kids should be learning is to LOOK, THINK, AND ASK QUESTIONS. Our mindless bumper-sticker-don't-ask-questions-shut-up-and-learn mentality has ruined generations.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I'm gonna stun you here & say that teacher needs severe disciplining. I'd suspend her for a month without pay & make her take psych classes, as well as require an apology IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE CLASS for that- it was brutally insensitive. God forbid he father should die in Iraq, that little stunt could set that child up for major psychological problems involving self-blame.
And ONE WORD of defense of her actions during the process, and I'd fire her ass.

Stupid biped.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

For every qualified teacher, it seems we have 3-4 that are utterly worthless.
If they're not fondling or sending dirty text messages to our children, they're bullying them and making fun of what the kids parents teach them.

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I didn't find this out via the internet

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For every qualified teacher, it seems we have 3-4 that are utterly worthless. Exaggeration or not, we have far too many worthless teachers , wasting our kids time and getting paid by our tax $$ to do it. If they're not fondling or sending dirty text messages to the children, they're bullying them and making fun of what the kids parents teach them.

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For every qualified teacher, it seems we have 3-4 that are utterly worthless.
If they're not fondling or sending dirty text messages to our children, they're bullying them and making fun of what the kids parents teach them.

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Is this YOUR melt-down, AU?
Wow...so....negative....

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
IF he did it , I'd have his ass fired. The problem here is, we have no record of this actually happening. It's " alleged ". While the two cases appear to be similar , the evidence against each teacher is not, and that's possibly the major factor in one getting more punishment than the other ( though I doubt the NC teacher will be fired )

I'm glad the FL teacher got at least suspended and will lose his coaching pay. If nothing else grabs his attention, not having as much beer $$ will wake his arse up.

For every qualified teacher, it seems we have 3-4 that are utterly worthless. Exaggeration or not, we have far too many worthless teachers , wasting our kids time and getting paid by our tax $$ to do it. If they're not fondling or sending dirty text messages to the children, they're bullying them and making fun of what the kids parents teach them.

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Yeah, Rush told you. Or whatever. And since your information pipeline is so fair and balanced, you just swallow everything they say. Maybe you SHOULD troll the inet!

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So, my 'information pipeline' is indeed very fair and very balanced.

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So, my 'information pipeline' is indeed very fair and very balanced.

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For sure. You get all one side of the story, painting Obama supporters as mean and dastardly, when Bush/ McCain supprters can be (and have been) just as mean.

Rapo, as I've said many times before, you'd be a lot more "heads-up" if you managed not to cherry-pick your information so heavily.

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Originally posted by rue:
Don't waste your time on Rap.

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Originally posted by rue:
Along with the roaring ! on fire economy !, the 95% of 'them' who don't pay pay income tax and the 50% of 'us' who will get more from the government than we pay in taxes, the stockpiles of WMDs in Iraq, the torture that was only hazing but wasn't carried out except by the few bad apples who did, the global warming that isn't happening except that it's not due to man, the fact that McCain will be elected ...

and all those likewise facts.

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Yeah, Rap - we're all familiar with your 'facts'.

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The educational system is generally liberal and anti-war, that's just a reality.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Columbus wasn't out to prove the world was round, and he never set foot on the N. American continent. That the Earth wasn't flat was a well known fact from a time before Christ. ( Knowledge suppressed by the Church, of course ) Many things, like the fact that matter is made up of smaller particles like atoms and life on Earth is very old, were conceived over 1000 yrs ago, only to be re-discovered, post Renaissance.

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When I went to school, the Pilgrims came to America in a sprit of friendship and collaboration with the native Americans, and they worked together as allies.

When I went to school, Christopher Columbus discovered America.

When I went to school, I learned that Hitler committed the gravest acts of genocide in recorded history.

I find it abominable that individuals inflict their personal politics and prejudices upon a classroom of impressionable children.

I find it equally abominable that a nation inflicts its propaganda and prejudices upon a classroom of impressionable children.

I didn't get a hint of real education until late middle-school and High School. It was frustrating to unlearn the propaganda of my primary school years, and embrace the 'new truth' of my high school years.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Columbus wasn't out to prove the world was round, and he never set foot on the N. American continent. That the Earth wasn't flat was a well known fact from a time before Christ. ( Knowledge suppressed by the Church, of course ) Many things, like the fact that matter is made up of smaller particles like atoms and life on Earth is very old, were conceived over 1000 yrs ago, only to be re-discovered, post Renaissance.

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Wow...you can make all kinds of sense when you try. Jeeze, almost sounded scholarly there. You have a fine mind, until politics shorts it out.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

If you were familiar w/ Occam's Razor, you'd soon come to realize that I'm as right on politics as I am on history.

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If you were familiar w/ Occam's Razor...

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