Posted on 11/29/2008 4:36:56 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A Fayetteville teacher whose classroom encounter with a young John McCain supporter created a stir on YouTube has confirmed that she was given a disciplinary letter.
But Diatha Harris said an internal investigation of her conduct cleared the veteran educator of violating state law or Cumberland County Board of Education policy.
Harris, 53, was videotaped in the spring by a Swedish film crew, leading a classroom discussion about the 2008 presidential election with fifth-graders at Mary McArthur Elementary School.
During the discussion, Harris called the Iraq war “senseless” and told her pupils that U.S. troops could stay in Iraq for 100 years if McCain was president.
“So that means that your daddy could stay in the military for another hundred years,” Harris told pupil Cathy Thompson in the classroom footage.
In other scenes shot outside the classroom, Harris sports a Barack Obama campaign button.
The video aired in a documentary broadcast on Finnish television earlier this month. A blogger posted snippets from the broadcast on YouTube, and Internet viewers responded by bombarding Superintendent Bill Harrison’s office with calls for Harris to be fired.
(Excerpt) Read more at fayobserver.com ...
She should be fired.
...and her mouth glued shut.
What happened to zero tolerance for bullying?
Why wasn’t she immediately fired?
She calls herself an educator? She poisons young minds interjecting her beliefs. She should be fired.
Hello????!!!!
She was an Obama supporter... nuff said.
She probably got a nice bonus too.
Now, if some conservative teacher ranted about the truthful Marxist leanings, associations and scant record of the Messiah...the NAACP and the school board would have flown off the handle and most likely the teacher would have received death threats.
Because the perp was a Liberal, nothing to see here, move along.
Until we re-take this country from the arms of the Liberals, expect more and more of this type of action.
Did the woman get fired for using public computers about Joe the Plumber? No.
Lefty judges will not sentence or repirmand Lefty school boards, teachers or politicians, they refuse to enforce punishment equally.
So this is what the public schools call a teacher. Another reason not to use them, IMHO.
now they should bombard Bill Harrison with calls for his resignation
If the teacher had been white and had chastised a black kid who supported Obama that teacher would have been fired immediately.
Yup except for that part about removing a murderous tyrant who was in violation of treaty's signed at the conclusion of Gulf war one and who was openly fomenting hatred toward the west by Islam. Senseless too in that bringing western secular democracy to Iraq would effectively divide the Middle east with freedom from Turkey to the Persian Gulf What a maroon
Of course.
Upon reading the rest of the article, this idiot should be fired for being braindead and coercing children to be braindead as well
Can you imagine? Teacher: "The candidate that you support wants to take away your Daddy's guns and most of his money! Guess you won't get any Christmas presents this year." Oprah would have the poor child on her show the next day to talk about the trauma.
Teacher’s union comes through again - working hard to maintain the standard of mediocrity.
Considering the city where she is a teacher, I would say she had a special responsibility to the children whose parents serve in the military.
Of course there’s nothing done to her. This won’t affect the school system’s funding, and thence the Superintendent’s salary. Nobody’s going to take their kids out of the “free” school over this, not even the parents of the child whom she browbeat.
Bullies, not to mention incompetents, thrive in the absence of consequences. Love that free daycare!
The poor kid whom she ridiculed is old enough to know her daddy could be killed over there. The “teacher” is a sicko who enjoys mental cruelty. She has no business being a “teacher”. I wonder if she has any kids, and how she treats them.
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