Posted on 05/22/2012 5:58:24 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
SALISBURY - The teacher at the center of a controversy over a classroom video has now been suspended with pay, according to the Rowan Salisbury School System.
Tonya Dixon-Neely teaches Social Studies at North Rowan High. She is heard on the video telling a student that he could get arrested for being critical of President Obama, and that people were arrested for being critical of President Bush.
"Effective today, Tanya Dixon-Neely has been suspended with pay while a thorough investigation is being conducted," school officials told WBTV when asked about Dixon-Neely's status.
The link to the video first showed up at WBTV on Tuesday of last week.
It came from a man who said he was a former teacher in the Rowan Salisbury School System. He claimed that a student inside a classroom at North Rowan High School was being verbally abused in a debate over President Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
"This video is circulating the internet. It is about a North Rowan High School social studies teacher that is verbally abusing a student regarding a question about the President and Mitt Romney," he told WBTV in his email.
"Please watch and listen to the actions of the teacher in this video and bring this type of bullying of students by the staff of RSS to light. As a former social studies teacher in the RSS system, I can tell you that this type of behavior is commonplace," his email continued. "This should not be allowed to be covered up by RSS, as they nearly always do."
(Excerpt) Read more at salisbury.wbtv.com ...
Suspended with pay. Ouch, that’s harsh. So she doesn’t have to come to work, and she still gets paid. Isn’t that called vacation?
I also guarantee that this *teacher* is probably fuming and blaming the whole thing on a right-wing racist conspiracy against both her and Obama.
That’s a *vacation*; you’re right.
The whole thing is “racist” don’t you know?
Without watching the video should I ask what color the teacher is?
(I tried thinking of a more politically correct way of asking)
I think you are spot on.
It's all about HER... what a drama queen!!!
I'd get my kid OUT of that school like a lightning bolt after THAT performance!!
Well, then, you’re obviously a racist.
/sarc
I saw the kid on Fox this morning. I tell you what, it blew my theory on stereotypes. Long haired hippie looking dude.
I hope some kids take this lesson to heart and video more abusive teachers. There are plenty in every community to go around.
” Without watching the video should I ask what color the teacher is?”
Ok, nevermind....
What a fine little brownshirt Desmond is! The problem is not the teacher going fascist ballistic, the problem is the student who asked a question.
I think that they cannot dock pay or work without some formal action.
This video should become a Republican commercial.
And so the lefty teach harasses the hippie, thinking the hippie will give in. WRONGO.
Bring some light onto these cockroaches. Every classroom should be recorded and broadcast on the internet so anyone can critique the “educator”. It wouldn’t be that difficult technically. It might save some children from this sort of abuse by an ill-informed, moron of a “teacher”. For the children, you know.
That would be the type of person she is.
Probably on Obama’s short list for a Cabinet Position or Czar opening.
“Teacher” my ass! That black woman berating a child is a goverment sponsored propagandist. When will baracq weigh in on this and what position will he take regarding his and Holders’ people?
She was “set-up” only because of multiple previous performances that hadn’t been captured.
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