Comments on: Teacher Belittles Student For Supporting McCain

By: Mister English

Mister English — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:30:18 +0000

The worse have gone into education while picking up a major in college. I could never have a small conservation with some of the teachers I’ve encountered at a coffeeshop. They’re either ignorant or worse culturally inferior. All the white parents should take their kids out that school. As for the teacher, can she pass a written test–if given an article to read, would she be able to develop an essay? The answer is simple. What a shame. North Carolina is down the drain.

By: Harl Delos

Harl Delos — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:03:28 +0000

It’s almost a tradition for teachers to belittle students for their beliefs. Coaches are the worst, but other teachers try to match them.

I think teachers should challenge students’ beliefs – not trying to bully them into changing their beliefs, but trying to get students to think.

Kids have a tendency to adopt what someone else says as their own belief, without really examining it. That’s dangerous. If you get them to think, you’re turning them from docile sheep into goats.

It’s a lot easier to manage a school full of sheep than a school full of goats, but that’s the job of a school. Admiral Grace Hopper pointed out that a ship is safe in harbor – but that’s not what a ship is for.

Our society is safe and strong to the degree that our citizens are armed – and the arms they need most are not made of blue steel. They need to be armed with functional gray matter. A citizen that thinks is dangerous to any who attempt to destroy this country.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:18:07 +0000

she’s not a very good cheerleader either…

By: BETTE HADAWAY

BETTE HADAWAY — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:12:10 +0000

THIS TEACHER WAS DEFININATELY WRONG. SOUNDS LIKE SHE LEARNED THIS IN CHURCH AS THAT IS ABOUT ALL HALF OF THE PEOPLE GO TO CHURCH FOR IS HOW TO CHEAT THE GOVERNMENT EVERYONE HAS AN OPINION BUT ONE MUST BE VERY CAREFUL WHAT IS SAID TO THE LITTLE ONES THEY HAVE EARS MEMMORIES AND FEELINGS. THAT LADY IS NOT A TEACHER SHE IS LIVING IN THE TIMES OF HER GREART GREAT GRAND PARENTS SHE SHOULD BE DISMISSED,,

By: Smith

Smith — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:27:41 +0000

This sort of thing is just disgusting to me. My mother is a teacher and if she expressed her religious beliefs (Protestant Christian) or political ones (conservative republican) to high school students who asked her about them she’d get in trouble.

Here we have a woman bullying young elementary school children who have different political beliefs from her. How does someone with sort of radical mindset (not her politics, but her use of her position as teacher to impose them) become a teacher?

By: Coleman Curtis

Coleman Curtis — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:09:58 +0000

Typical and deplorable! I don’t care who the teacher supports in an election. The nuances of national interests, national security and reasons for going to war are beyond the grade level of these students and way beyond the capabilities of the teacher.

Irrespective of the distorting of a presidential candidate’s position on Iraq, the humiliation and abuse of children with family members in the military is inexcuseable and the teacher should be disciplined by the school board if not dismissed.

By: Chris Ferro

Chris Ferro — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:40:49 +0000

Wow, she had a political debate with children. Kids are too young to be asked who they support for President. It’s wildly inappropriate. And to browbeat a child for something they know nothing about is the height of bullying. There are reasons why kids are not allowed to vote.

By: lisa

lisa — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:06:08 +0000

This woman is a hypocrite, bigot, and a liar. I think her school district would be derelict in their duty if they did not investigate this further. Apology be damed! If this was a white republican talking to a black student, it would be on every major news network with a mob rule approach to getting this teacher summarily fired. I am absolutely outraged. What this woman did borders on child abuse. It does not look like those kids learned that much in that classroom on that particular day. What on God’s green earth did she actually teach them that day! Is this really the example of the kind of person and character that is teaching our children? If it is, then I am disgusted. It is hard enough to be belittled in front of your friends at that age, but to play on a child’s fears by promoting your own political agenda? I just can’t believe what I have seen. When are educators (if that’s what they are called) going to learn that it is their job to teach our kids HOW to think, not WHAT to think.

By: Isabel

Isabel — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:18:53 +0000

This is typical. It happens to my children everyday. Democrats are intolerant of Republican views, and black children learn from their parents to be racist against whites. My white/hispanic daughter comes home crying because her black friend calls her racist because we voted for McCain. I don’t understand why racism is allowed when it’s against whites.?

By: Joel Harris

Joel Harris — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:50:28 +0000

I don’t think the teacher was lying in the interview. She believed that what she said was true. She is simply deluded (like so many on Tuesday). Let’s not be like the Dems who claim that if we are incorrect about something that we are lying. It cheapens the term. I still contend that it is an inappropriate topic for that particular age.

But persis, our timeframe cannot be 4 or 8 years. The time frame is 2 years. We cannot allow 4 years of Obama running unfettered. We need to be aiming to take back the House in 2010.