Posted on 11/06/2008 3:30:36 PM PST by paltz
Diantha Harris, a teacher in Asheville, N.C., and supporter of Barack Obama, berated one of her students for supporting John McCain. "In my class, Barack Obama won," she boasted. Yeah, condescending lectures have that effect. VIDEO
Sue the school district AND sue the teacher.
Asheville City Schools
Attn: Superintendent
85 Mountain Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 350-7000
Chairman Gene Bell - 828-252-4199
Superintendent Allen Johnson - 828-350-7000
This person should be fired ASAP!
Appalling, I would (if my children were in public schools) rip her a new one.
Absolutely disgusting!
Pathetic. This stuff was going on all over this country too. We should all call that school tomorrow and complain..LOUDLY!!
THIS HAS NO PLACE IN SCHOOL!!!. Where do you draw the line? Example: Barack Obama is the president elect (by a student unprompted by the teacher) in current events, won against John McCain. Period. End of discussion in school.
I'd complain to the school and yank my daughter out of there. Did you notice how intimidated, confused, and shamed that girl looked?
C’mon lighten up, that was just an audition tape for Secretary of Education.
All you kids should tell your military fathers to turn tail and run....uh...except when Obama wants them to go into Afghanistan and...uh...Pakistan.
Who taped this and how? Oh my.
Send this to DRUDGE.
What an evil witch. That poor little girl that she was berating. And did you see how all the other children looked at her in disgust? That teacher needs to be sued. I hope the little girl’s mother has hired a lawyer.
So is she a master berator?
Just another typical public school teacher in North Carolina.
In Asheville, she's more likely to get a promotion and a very large raise.
It appears I’m now living in the world of “Idiocracy”.
So My wife was pissed, we asked our daughter if we could send an email to her teacher, our daughter yelled “YES!”, so, my wife sent the Teacher an email telling her to keep her Political views to herself that only Time will tell if Obama will be great or NOT...
This is a Private school that we send our kids to, we are waiting for her response, and depending on what she says, we will take the fight to them...We don't give a rats ass... We aren't even Americans, we are Canadian, she should shut her trap!!!
The BHO regime has yet to start and already it is nauseating....
Not just her... everyone that did not support Mr-elect were frightened or had that “here we go again” look.
Sad, angry and disgusted.....but not at all surprised.
She teaches in Cumberland County NC. I’m working on getting information on her specific school and contact # for her principal.
The only kid who could connect it to an actual issue was that little black boy who said Iraq.
Poor kids.
I don’t know if I’d call it brow beating or berating the McCain supporters but I sure wouldn’t want a child of mine being “educated” by this horse’s patoot. What was that little tard song and dance at the end? I’d flunk first graders for a skit that bad.
She sure as hell wouldn’t have berated me. I would have stood tall and told her in case she didn’t realize it ... this is STILL a free country and I am free to back whomever I choose. Then I would have walked the hell out of her classroom and gone home. Knowing MY parents and how they have the same values and cherish our freedoms the way I do...they would have backed me all the way and if necessary...woudl have pulled me out of that so called classroom with that jerk of a teacher. Nuff said! If we don’t begin to stand tall against these nobodies...they will walk all over us. However, there are not many who stand tall these days. Pity them.
I got this as a kid growing up in the ‘70s. I fought with all my moonbat teachers. And they were almost all moonbats (95%). My family was not political, (my parents were almost always divided on elections and candidates) but even at 10 years old I could see that these liberals were petty, mean-spirited, smug bullies (not above picking on little kids) and somebody needed to stick up for the other side. Plus, it was a lot of fun to get in their faces. They didn’t realize it, but their efforts only made me more conservative.
I still can’t get over the fact that this stupid b*tch told that little girl that McCain wanted to keep her Father in Iraq for another 100 years. It makes you wonder what is said when the cameras are off.
Another website says she left Asheville in 2004 and teaches in Cumberland County (Fayetteville).
http://citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881106074
William C. Harrison
Superintendent
2465 Gillespie Street • Fayetteville, NC 28306
910.678.2300
Diantha Harris
Mary Mcarthur Elementary School
Principal Lola Williams
3809 Village Drive Fayetteville, NC 28304 910.424.2206
Superintendent William C. Harrison
910.678.2300
DO NOT BOTHER TO CONTACT THE PRINCIPAL---IF YOU WANT TO REPORT HER, CALL WILLIAM HARRISON. Only by contacting the super will something be done. Calling the principal is a waste of time
LINK to the website with the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of the Board of Education
http://www.communications.ccs.k12.nc.us/Board/BOE.htm
lll@nc.rr.com ;
KimberlyPFisher@aol.com ;
GregWest@nc.rr.com ;
MacWilliams@nc.rr.com ;
hfarrior@nc.rr.com ;
DLaHuffman@nc.rr.com ;
fkbarragan@nc.rr.com ;
Royalme@nc.rr.com ;
MackyH@nc.rr.com
If you want to complain, here's the information. My email has already gone out. Who else is out there angry enough to demand action?
This is exactly why we opted to homeschool our youngest. Our older daughter is in a charter school (8th grade) and it is pretty conservative, but we just can’t stand the though of some teacher trying to indoctrinate and bully our 5 year old.
According to Michelle Malkin's site: "was caught on tape by Finnish documentarians making a film about Barack Obama’s supporters"
As a parent and a concerned American I came across the most disturbing video this evening on the internet. This video was of a teacher named Diantha Harris berating a child. This teacher of our children used the name of the Lord as a cuss word in front of these very young students. From my view of the video she was campaigning for Senator Obama in the classroom.
A discussion of this historic election is certainly acceptable. This teacher however berated and was extremely condescending to this poor child. Her family is in the military fighting for Ms. Harris right to the 1st amendment.
Perhaps Ms. Harris should have told the child how proud she is of her family for serving in the military for America. Instead the so called teacher scared that child telling her her father would be in the military for 100 yrs.
I am sure when this child’s father leaves her and goes to whatever base our commander in chief sends him to, so that he may protect our country she is very afraid he may never come home.
Perhaps Ms. Harris should take a history lesson instead of campaigning for Senator Obama in her elementary school. Let the children know that on September 11, 2001 our country lost over 3,000 citizens to terrorism.
I would believe some sort of disciplinary action would be in order. Perhaps criminally charged with mental cruelty and child abuse. I truly believe she should be fired.
Thank you for your swift action in this matter.
The internet has a way of attaching all of us to each other.
Sincerely,
“This person should be fired ASAP!”
In Asheville she’ll get a medal. In any of the countries around their she’d be disciplined. Asheville is a blue Island in western NC.
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