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Yes folks, this is why alot of public education is garbage. This teacher should be fired ASAP.

If you go to the link you can listen to hr youtube posting.


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/n-c...ld-be-arrested-for-talking-badly-about-obama/

Last Monday, a high school student in North Carolina engaged his social studies teacher in a heated debate about politics and the two leading presidential candidates. During the exchange, the teacher (an obvious Obama supporter) got very angry with the student and accused him of disrespecting the president. She even went so far as to tell the boy that he could be jailed for speaking ill of Obama.

Sarah Campbell of the Salisbury Post first reported on the story. She claims that the school district is not releasing the name of the teacher and that she is not responding to requests for public comment (although the two students identified her to the newspaper). According to Campbell’s story, the teacher will not be suspended or even face disciplinary action for what was heard on the recording. A statement from the school was released at the end of the week:


“The Rowan-Salisbury School System expects all students and employees to be respectful in the school environment and for all teachers to maintain their professionalism in the classroom. This incident should serve as an education for all teachers to stop and reflect on their interaction with students. Due to personnel and student confidentiality, we cannot discuss the matter publicly.”

So, how bad was the exchange? It got fairly heated, with the teacher shouting at times. The kerfuffle started after one student asked a question about the teacher’s “fact of the day” that said Romney was a bully back in high school. A student asked:





“Didn’t Obama bully somebody, though?”

The teacher started to get angry and said:


“Not to my knowledge.”

A couple of students relayed the story about Obama admitting that he bullied someone when he was younger. And that seemed to light the fuse on his teacher’s anger. A couple of the students exchanged words with the angry teacher.


“Stop! Stop! Because there’s no comparison. He’s running for president. Obama is the president.”

As one student attempted to argue for a fair, two-sided debate on the history of the candidates, he was shouted down and talked over by the teacher. She continued:


“You got to realize, this man is wanting to be what Obama is. There’s no comparison.”

Once again, the students pressed for equal discussion of the histories of both men, with one saying:


“If you’re gonna talk trash about one side, you gotta talk trash about the other.”

The teacher just seemed to dig her heels in deeper and press her defense of Obama telling the defiant teen:


“You will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom.”

Again the student persisted and invoked his First Amendment right.


“I’ll say what I want.”

The still unidentified teacher read the student her rules…her Obama rules.


“Not about him, you won’t!”

The back and forth continued and the most strident of the two students reminded his teacher that President Bush was constantly treated to negative statements about him while he was in office:


“Whenever Bush was president, everybody talked sh-t about him.”

To which the teacher responded:


“Because he was sh-tty.”

The social studies educator went on for a full minute with more ranting, saying that people were arrested for saying derogatory things about President Bush. The student correctly reminded the teacher that opinions are protected, but you cannot be arrested unless you threaten the president.

Our research has not turned up a single case of anyone in America being arrested for speaking ill of former President Bush. The local newspaper story also mentioned that their discussions about the story with a political science professor could not recall the arrests that the teacher was speaking about.

The entire confrontation was recorded by a student and posted on YouTube. Listen below; slight content warning for language.
 

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So you can talk bad about Bush but not about Obama? Cursing in the classroom?

Hell of a teacher. You have to wonder how many good ones were passed over for her.
 

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Yup, nothing will come of this. No indoctrination here.... Nothing to see move along.
 

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Glad some teachers have the courage to stand up for our democracy and elected officials.
 

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Glad some teachers have the courage to stand up for our democracy and elected officials.

You are fucking hilarious. President Bush was openly mocked by every liberal in the US for 8 years. To even say this woman was in the right really shows me that you are the troll I always knew you were.
 

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You are fucking hilarious. President Bush was openly mocked by every liberal in the US for 8 years. To even say this woman was in the right really shows me that you are the troll I always knew you were.

You don't know the circumstances. Children need to learn respect for our country's illustrious leaders.
 
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I have to agree with the "conservatives" here in that the teacher was wrong. The teacher should be willing to have open dialogue with her students. They all have a right to their own opinions but when things get out of hand it should have stopped. The teacher needs to take control of her classroom. I don't believe the teacher should be fired over this incident but she certainly should be reprimanded (if that means suspension, write up, etc.) and have her classes monitored for a time.
 

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The only thing better than north Carolina school teachers is north Carolina pastors.
 
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What a dumb teacher. One of the great things about this country is the freedom to openly speak out against its leaders.
 

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I have to agree with the "conservatives" here in that the teacher was wrong. The teacher should be willing to have open dialogue with her students. They all have a right to their own opinions but when things get out of hand it should have stopped. The teacher needs to take control of her classroom. I don't believe the teacher should be fired over this incident but she certainly should be reprimanded (if that means suspension, write up, etc.) and have her classes monitored for a time.

I agree she needs to be disciplined, that has no place in a classroom.
 

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Christ.

A high school teacher is getting pwned by a high school student.

The teacher should be forced to take some kind of competence test. She clearly had no fucking clue about what was going on.

FFS.
 

jiggyfly

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Why the hell did Glenn Beck name his website "The Blaze". lol

And its amazing the amount of race baiting going on in there.
 

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Why the hell did Glenn Beck name his website "The Blaze". lol

And its amazing the amount of race baiting going on in there.

Go read the comments section at Huff Post for the Lib version of the same thing. Only you'll most likely agree with it there. It isn't called race baiting there, it's called I'm not racist but...
 

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Go read the comments section at Huff Post for the Lib version of the same thing. Only you'll most likely agree with it there. It isn't called race baiting there, it's called I'm not racist but...

I was talking about the types of articles and there focus.

And I have a problem with race baiting from either side, Beck seems to be much more overt with his headlines.
 

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I was talking about the types of articles and there focus.

And I have a problem with race baiting from either side, Beck seems to be much more overt with his headlines.

I see what you mean, the title of this article is.

N.C. Teacher Suspended For Telling Student He Could Be Arrested for Talking Badly About Obama

That's so racist. Oh wait...
 

jiggyfly

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I see what you mean, the title of this article is.

N.C. Teacher Suspended For Telling Student He Could Be Arrested for Talking Badly About Obama

That's so racist. Oh wait...

I said the Website had several titles and I never said it was racist just race baiting, there is a difference.
 
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