Posted on 05/21/2012 10:41:48 AM PDT by abb
SALISBURY — Rowan-Salisbury Schools officials suspended a North Rowan High School teacher Monday while investigating an incident caught on camera where the teacher told a student he could be arrested for speaking ill of President Barack Obama.
In a nearly 10-minute YouTube video shot by a student in the classroom, Tanya Dixon-Neely, a social studies teacher, told students criticism of the president could lead to jail time.
“Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush?” she said of former President Bush. “Do you realize you are not supposed to slander the president?”
Dixon-Neely has been suspended with pay, according to Rowan-Salisbury School System Spokeswoman Rita Foil.
On Friday, Foil said the incident can be a learning experience.
“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.”
A Salisbury Post reporter went to Dixon-Neely's home for comment this morning, but no one answered the door. Calls to her number have gone unanswered and there is no answering machine.
The video went viral over the weekend and viewership jumped from about 1,000 views to more than 168,000 Monday morning.
Tanya Dixon-Neely attended NC Central University—Crystal Mangum’s alma mater.
Wow! I’ve never seen a wedding announcement like that! Twenty-one ushers, 21 bridesmaids, 4 junior bridesmaids. A maid AND a matron of honor. Various others in the entourage.
Notice the announcement didn’t say she graduated, only that she attended.
She attended North Carolina Central University, alma mater of Crystal Mangum, the Duke lacrosse accuser.
24 bridesmaids??
Coming soon to Bravo...’My Big Fat African American Wedding’.
Well, the wedding was in 1988, a mere 6 years after she finished high school. She may have graduated from NCCU later. Usually you need a college degree to be hired as a teacher, but I don’t know if that is a universal rule.
That is some good news.Now the commie needs to be fired.
I think there is another problem that goes beyond a stupid teacher.
It is how the entire black population of this country loves and supports Barack Obama not because he’s a good and effective president, but because he is black, like them.
This means when white people criticize Obama, blacks take it personally. It is as if you criticized and insulted them, and worse, as an evil white suppressor (to some but not all blacks) you are rubbing salt in an open wound, by relishing your criticsm of the great black Hope and Change, the brother who showed them honkies whose in charge.
I expect riots when Romney beats Obama in November.
I can’t believe you worked PAVE PAWS back when it was cutting edge!
bttt
FIRED would be more appropriate!!!!!!
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