Obama-Supporting Teacher Gives Soldier’s Daughter Hard Time

"It’s a senseless war! And by the way, Kathy, the person that you’re picking for president said that our troops could stay in Iraq for another hundred years if they need to! So that means that your daddy could stay in the military for another hundred years!"

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November 6, 2008 at 7:48 pm - Channel Five (Finland)
Dateline: Cumberland County, NC
jmckinne   November 6th, 2008 - 6:53 pm

That is one the most disgusting things I have ever seen.

She obviously doesn’t understand anything about the war in Iraq, and even tho she is a “teacher” she appears to know even less about kids.

The interview afterward where she claims she just said “that’s good” to McCain kids is precious too. Is she a liar or delusional?

scgal   November 6th, 2008 - 6:54 pm

she needs to be fired, she is so bias.
Put prayer back in our public schools!!!!

Griz   November 6th, 2008 - 6:59 pm

This teacher should be ashamed of herself for embarrassing and brow beating that little girl. She should keep her opinions to herself and teach these kids the knowledge that they will need to form their own opinions.

Patriot   November 6th, 2008 - 7:00 pm

What school district does she work in? We need a real journalist, not some leg shivering Mathews, but a real journalist, to find what school she is at so the parents of her students can make the situation right. Fire her!

demdicks   November 6th, 2008 - 7:00 pm

She better hope her daddy don’t come home in a bad mood. The military knows which side supports it and which ridicules it, even the black ones who voted obama anyway. Only by working together, can we overcome diversity.

oops2012   November 6th, 2008 - 7:01 pm

This teacher needs to be fired. I hope this girls father is back soon to deal with this school system.

Dawn   November 6th, 2008 - 7:05 pm

This is reason 354 why my child will go to private school while I work 100 hrs a week if needed.
The horrible treatment that that little girl had to put up with is ridiculous.
I would also have that teacher’s job so fast her head would spin! Unacceptable!

K   November 6th, 2008 - 7:07 pm

You know, it doesn’t matter if you do or do not support the “war” in Iraq. It really doesn’t.

To do this to a child is despicable.

Frankly, I don’t have any love for the Iraq situation, myself, but to take it out on a child (and not only a child but a CAPTIVE audience, too, in front of her peers) is unconscionable.

Soldiers are NOT the problem, THEY DO NOT MAKE THE DECISIONS, ANYWAY! They are often taken advantage of by the government just as much as anyone else — they’re just doing their job and often what they perceive as their duty. I respect soldiers. I don’t, however, respect the policymakers who send them out of the country for what essentially is nothing more than a profit-making expedition, risking their lives for it in the process (and our leaders would NEVER risk their own lives for it).

That being said, I STILL can NOT believe this teacher — she SHOULD be fired immediately for harassing one of her students in front of other students. Doing so merely because of the child’s parent being a soldier and because of the child’s own political beliefs, which she has EVERY RIGHT to hold, is an affront to freedom and democracy!

What the @#$@ ever happened to common decency?

Guess what, teacher, your point just got LOST when you acted like a tyrant to that child. I don’t care what you have to say, now. You’re a horrible human being.

I hope action is taken to remove her — she’s clearly created a hostile learning environment for this child.

No matter what your opinions or beliefs are, maintaining some dignity about it and treating others with courtesy rather than being tyrannical and excessive is a much better choice.

To psychologically @#$@ with a child to get your jollies off about your own political beliefs….disgusting!!!

SHAME ON THAT TEACHER!! She’s a disgrace to all humans, no matter their political beliefs.

LK   November 6th, 2008 - 7:09 pm

WHAT AN IGNORANT COW!

Too bad the school wasn’t listed because I’d give them a call and ask why this child abuser was still employed!

demdicks   November 6th, 2008 - 7:11 pm

Two days since obama declared winner;

Stock market DOWN 900+ points – FACT!

Rockets fired into Gaza – FACT!

Russia boldly announces missiles on Polish border, Putin announces he wants to return to Presidency – so he can PERSONALLY confront obama – FACT!

Media trying desperately to prop him up and assure 63 million idiots they did not just completely and irreparably damage this country – FACT!

Some Jewish groups are already grumbling about buyer’s remorse as well, TOO LAAATE! – FACT!

MAH   November 6th, 2008 - 7:13 pm

Why is this woman teaching?

Brenda C   November 6th, 2008 - 7:15 pm

I know why she’s against McCain. She knows she would have lost her job. McCain made several statements regarding removing teacher’s that didn’t know how to teach. Watching that video it let’s me know she’s out of a job. Glad it wasn’t my grand-daughter because she would still be digging erasers out of her butt.

Anti-Stupid   November 6th, 2008 - 7:18 pm

DIANTHA HARRIS is her name. Remember hre name. There are many like her in our “public school” in different colors, with possibly high IQ’s but low EQ’s.

DIANTHA HARRIS should be FIRED!!!!

anon   November 6th, 2008 - 7:21 pm

Is this real?

AbuBakerSmithh   November 6th, 2008 - 7:22 pm

Once the Civialian Security force is in place and the dept of culture stands up people will not be allowed to insult Obama and degrade American Society.

http://digg.com/politics/Iranians_Hope_Obama_Lives_Up_to_His_Name

Anti-Stupid   November 6th, 2008 - 7:22 pm

DIANTHA HARRIS is her name. Remember her name. There are many like her in our “public schools” in different colors, with possibly high IQ’s but low EQ’s.

DIANTHA HARRIS should be FIRED!!!!

K   November 6th, 2008 - 7:23 pm

If anyone knows what school this is, please post it here. If enough people who truly are against this behavior (again, it doesn’t matter, in my opinion, what side of the “political line” on which you fall — this is wrong, and if you don’t think so, ask yourself if she had been upholding McCain like that instead of Obama, would you have thought it appropriate then?) email the school and the school board, then maybe she can be removed, as she truly should be.

ap   November 6th, 2008 - 7:24 pm

Here is the YouTube with more information with the teacher’s name in Ashville, NC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEAYgm0Dv8

Asheville City Schools
Attn: Superintendent
85 Mountain Street
Asheville, NC 28801
Superintendent Allen Johnson – (828) 350-7000

Make it stop!

Scott   November 6th, 2008 - 7:26 pm

This is political bigotry forced upon a child.

Tim   November 6th, 2008 - 7:27 pm

A liar and a tupid liar at that. If she isnt fired for trying to intimidate those kids, someones daddy ought to pay her a visit and beat the hell out of her. Disgraceful.

oops2012   November 6th, 2008 - 7:30 pm

That’s a great idea K.

Chris   November 6th, 2008 - 7:30 pm

I’m hoping this woman is no longer employed as a teacher. She can’t even speak proper English.
I’ve never seen such a display of unethical behavior in a classroom. Am I missing something? Was this some kind of joke? Do we really have people this stupid teaching our children?

Rick in Plano   November 6th, 2008 - 7:30 pm

Please let us know the state and school district. This women has NO BUSINESS teaching !!!!

Outraged   November 6th, 2008 - 7:31 pm

This person is insulting all teachers who do care about children!! She is a disgrace to the profession and should not be allowed in a classroom. That incident will stay with that little girl forever — what a stupid woman.

JustAnotherGuy   November 6th, 2008 - 7:32 pm

Another current and future convert to Islam.

Lampshades   November 6th, 2008 - 7:36 pm

from Demdicks

“Some Jewish groups are already grumbling about buyer’s remorse as well, TOO LAAATE! – FACT!”

Frankly I don’t give a hoot about grumbling goos since they votes 80% for Hussein Messiah-x. I say they deserve to become lamp shades for their stupidity.

Astounded   November 6th, 2008 - 7:36 pm

WOW !!! I don’t know why this comes as a shock to me, but it does. In the interview afterward she acts like she has no clue what she had previously done to that little girl. Amazing.

Razz   November 6th, 2008 - 7:40 pm

what the bias media has done to mccain is unforgivable! i’m a visitor in your country, and i have never in my life seen media acting in the way yours does! from late night shows to la times, they are all the same! they are actually so pathetic and laughable its ridiculous i might add. they would rather go after someone like a innocent plumber’s back ground check, than the man thats gonna run your country!he gets a free pass! i wish it happens to me aswell when i go for interviews for my job! but then again, my name is not obama! the media, do they care? but you know god does not sleep, he knows ugly, and soon we shall see how proud they are of a man that got a free pass to the white house.

oops2012   November 6th, 2008 - 7:40 pm

http://tundratabloid.blogspot.com/2008/11/update-on-asheville-teacher-diantha.html

check this out!

she has a husband in the school system

Jerry Glass   November 6th, 2008 - 7:41 pm

To ’suggest’ through ‘implication’ is what this teacher has done to this young mind…the child she debated was not even engaged in the conversation, it was evident in her little face, as if the teacher has the right to mold that young mind with media propaganda is appalling let alone the fact that the school board will protect her ‘right’ to do this to our young ones….I don’t look forward to the day my 18 month old is in school….I will be attending every one of her classes throughout the entire year if teachers think they can indoctrinate my gift from God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike Dimone   November 6th, 2008 - 7:43 pm

This slob works at the address below Please all write in…

http://www.asheville.k12.nc.us/default.aspx

Asheville City Schools
Attn: Superintendent
85 Mountain Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 350-7000

GG   November 6th, 2008 - 7:47 pm

AMAZING! If a white teacher had berated a black student for voting for Obama–it would be all over the nightly news. She would have ALREADY been fired. This is absolutely disgusting!

oops2012   November 6th, 2008 - 7:48 pm

http://tundratabloid.blogspot.com/2008/11/update-on-asheville-teacher-diantha.html

seems her husband is on the board

HD4LYF   November 6th, 2008 - 7:50 pm

If this is a suprise to any of you, PLEASE watch “indoctrinate U” and “Expelled”. This is nothing new! Its just kept quiet for the sake of the kids. My girlfriends 13 year old comes home with absolutely OUTRAGEOUS beliefs that he gets from his “teachers”. We need to clean house on all theses teachers/schools. There is no room for this type of intimidation going on everyday in our PUBLIC schools!

MONSTER TACO 79   November 6th, 2008 - 7:51 pm

She’s black, you idiot.
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Just Another November 6th, 2008 – 6:49 pm

Just another so-called teacher, she is nothing more than a Latina baby maker that knows how to use her mouth for all the wrong reasons!

Go back to you Shi!hole where you came from, Mexico!

First SGT Clean   November 6th, 2008 - 7:52 pm

I can’t stomach the fact that this woman is a teacher. She and her kind are the reason this country is going down the tubes and when I say kind I don’t mean because she’s brown stupidity is an equal oppertunity sickness and there is a cure it’s called everybody should serve at least 2 years in the armed forces and see the world for the good and bad. There is an absence of respect for God and goodness in this country and untill we start respecting Gods laws we will have more Obama’s gays and corruption.

K   November 6th, 2008 - 7:53 pm

Thanks very much, Mike Dimone! I’ve just been doing some research of my own:

Her full name is Lisa Diantha Harris. A link at the bottom of the article linked under the video above is a short transcipt of Bush (senior, not W) visiting her family in 1992, apparently:

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=21417

I looked at the Asheville school district’s website earlier, and looked at every single staff listing for each school, even the high school (though those kids don’t look old enough for that…), and could not find Lisa Diantha Harris listed. I in fact could only find one Harris listed anywhere, and the first name was not Lisa or Diantha. If she is still teaching there, they have her unlisted for some reason, it seems (or I just plain missed it).

I did find this, which appears to be a blurb akin to a cover letter for a CV/resume for her:

http://www.ciaatournament.org/page/miss-lisa-harris

I’d love to know if she’s still teaching, and if so, where (if not in Asheville, North Carolina)!

She should have her teaching license REVOKED. Permanently.

Chris   November 6th, 2008 - 7:54 pm

Here is a link to the schools harassment policy. This person that calls herself a teacher has clearly violated the terms and should be fired posthaste.

http://www.asheville.k12.nc.us/C1/board/New%20or%20Revised%20Board%20Policies%20for%20Public%20Review/1710%20%20Prohibition%20Against%20Discrimination%20and%20Harassment%20Revised%202008.pdf

Obamarxism is already coming in play   November 6th, 2008 - 7:56 pm

GG you are soo right! This is what the rest of us in America that are educated and smart enough to know what the terms socialism and marxism mean, are not looking for handouts and looking for the goverment to take care of us but would rather make our own fortunes on our own merit and are not part of the race card playing welfare nation have to look forward to in the next 4 years. Every one that voted for this pathetic gimmick of a presidential candidate masquerading as the hope of nation should be totally ashamed of themselves and the next 4 years are going to be entirely their fault.

Claire   November 6th, 2008 - 7:59 pm

Diantha Harris is a lunatic and should not be teaching children! She is doing to her students what used to be done to black children. Apparently, she has learned nothing from America’s history or personal experience.

In her eagerness to brow beat a McCain supporter, Harris failed to understand that the little girl’s father most definitely will not be serving in the military 50 much less 100 years from now. 60+ yrs after WWII America’s military is still serving in Germany and Japan.

Again, to reiterate the point, Diantha Harris is a lunatic.

cashmack   November 6th, 2008 - 8:00 pm

this so-called teacher needs a swift kick in the keester and a lesson about working with children!
poor girl doesent have her father figure at home because hes fighting for our country and this whales picking on her to make a stupid point!!
ill bet shes not going to be teaching much longer!!

Diantha is a RACIST   November 6th, 2008 - 8:01 pm

And the liberals wonder why home schooling is on the rise and how badly they the liberals want to put and end to this kind of education.

Mike Dimone   November 6th, 2008 - 8:09 pm

I have a radio show that air sat @ 10am (est)… This will be the lead story…..

K   November 6th, 2008 - 8:12 pm

‘First SGT Clean,’ just to pipe in with my own opinion on your comment, I have no issue with gays (unless that was a typo on your part, I don’t think Obama agrees with gays/lesbians, hopefully though he will uphold their freedoms). And I don’t think prayer should be in the classroom, personally (to the other poster who suggested it). That’s why churches exist.

I do agree that morality and goodness, and treating others with the decency you hope to receive, are all very good and very important qualities that should be encouraged in society.

And, I most definitely believe that no teacher should be able to browbeat ANY child (particularly in secondary education, people are old enough in college to understand that sort of thing, but NOT in elementary/middle/high school) into following that teacher’s political beliefs, NO MATTER WHAT THOSE BELIEFS ARE.

It is wrong on so many levels, it’s sickening. Not only is it brainwashing (even if you agree with that side) in the case of a child, but it’s harassment and is belittling in front of her peers/classmates, and that is very tough for a child to deal with. Not to mention, this teacher instilled fear in the child by mentioning that her father could be gone for a hundred years — disgusting behavior!!

Anyway, I seriously hope she’s no longer teaching. And her husband is on the board, eh? If she is still teaching, she’ll likely never be fired, then…unless of course enough people email the school district demanding her dismissal (one can hope).

One last thing, I wonder if the parents of this girl know what happened? They should.

Brenda C   November 6th, 2008 - 8:12 pm

You-Tube lists her as teaching in Fayetteville. We should all report this racist uneducated loser.

Terry   November 6th, 2008 - 8:16 pm

This is terrible, and I agree that she should be fired right away. If she is fired, I’m sure she’ll be using the racist card anyway (like those who used the same card against those who didn’t vote for the MESSiah).

PaulyBob   November 6th, 2008 - 8:21 pm

Ah, the american education system.
That teahcer must be working in the People’s Republic of New York…thats where my daughter went to school, but she was taught values at home.
She is now a teacher in another state, but unlike this teacher, she’s not incompetent, bigoted or a moron.

Larry The Kabul Guy   November 6th, 2008 - 8:21 pm

Those who know where this (likely illegal alien) lower primate works, please get it fired.

If the race card is played and you are unsuccessful, well ……… you know what has to be done.

Witness   November 6th, 2008 - 8:24 pm

DIANTHA HARRIS is a political bigot who intimidates children of her own class!!! She confronts the child of a soldier, who is fighting in Iraq, and confuses her to almost tears by implying her parent will be away from home for 100 years !!! This women should be fired or her boss be fired. Is this example of the kind of people who supported Obama? She is shaping our children under her guidance!!! Unbelievable.

Protest people or silence will only encourage more of this mess in the future. (thanks Mike Dimone for the following contact info concerning this person)

http://www.asheville.k12.nc.us/default.aspx

Asheville City Schools
Attn: Superintendent
85 Mountain Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 350-7000

Phil in Las Vegas   November 6th, 2008 - 8:25 pm

I cannot believe that a TEACHER would be allowed to do something like this. When I was a child growing up I am PROUD to say MY FATHER spent 20 years in the Army and I am an Army Brat.PROUD of IT TOO…If we would have had a teacher like this my parents would have either gone to the school and corrected this teachers thought patterns. If this is the typical behavior a teacher in that school district then maybe the Government should pullall funding from that District.

lynnd   November 6th, 2008 - 8:28 pm

Make a note of this, call those people, email your friends with this information and tell them to do the same. This is despicable!! Her big butt needs to be canned!

Blaaaaaaaah   November 6th, 2008 - 8:30 pm

Thank the Goddess my children had professional educators. Our district teachers would have been fired if they had behaved like that.

Comrad   November 6th, 2008 - 8:34 pm

Affirmative Action at work in our schools and now in our White House. What a racist pig.

dan fisher   November 6th, 2008 - 8:34 pm

this teacher is a moron black only voted for B.O. cause he,s black they would vote the jack the ripper as long as he was black and the jews your nitwits B.O. does not support jews you morons. but now we all have to pay i don t trust B.O. he, s already talking about cutting the military i bet a lot of blacks in the service voted mccain cause they know he will protect us dummiecrats already saying stop I.C.E. raids you libs will get us all nuked some day thanks a lot morons liberals= weak commie lover

Whoa there   November 6th, 2008 - 8:48 pm

Whoa, TAKE A BREATH!

Not trying to rain on anyone’s parade here but…

I don’t believe you’re barking up the correct tree. Read this article in Asheville’s local newspaper…

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881106074

Whoa there   November 6th, 2008 - 8:52 pm

Whoa, TAKE A BREATH!

Not trying to rain on anyone’s parade here but…

I don’t believe you’re barking up the correct tree. Read this article in Asheville’s local newspaper…

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881106074

Bill Andersen   November 6th, 2008 - 8:52 pm

First, I’m wondering what the source for this is. I’m sure it’s not staged, but I’d like to know because this teacher should lose her job. This will be the kind of re-education we can expect in our schools which will guarantee at least a generation of good little liberals to keep the Congress full of leftist Dems.

Clifton   November 6th, 2008 - 8:55 pm

What a shameful display of adult irresponsibility. If that had been a teacher supporting McCain or Sarah P or any conservative candidate that individual would be fired and the media would be on them in force just as they did to “Joe the Plumber.”

Romulan   November 6th, 2008 - 8:56 pm

What did you people expect ??

A fat black teacher who berates her students and is rewarded for it because she be black and she be entitled cause King Obam da 1st be da man now

We hae become a third world country and I and the guys who fell next to me in combat sacrificed for NOTHING. We are falling into a bottomless pit

J Sears   November 6th, 2008 - 8:57 pm

So sad to see a teacher pick on a student in that manner, especially with a stupid lie and that “superior” stare – what a joke. Obviously, no one is learning in that class.

John McGeough   November 6th, 2008 - 9:13 pm

Were I this teachers principal, I would have fired her that day. There is no place for browbeating a child in this way. She is a bully with no desire to care for every child, every child. She has no place in education. She should never teach anywhere in America ever again.

Yep I’ll sign it,

John McGeough

fande3rls   November 6th, 2008 - 9:17 pm

its not about education its about indoctination
obey obama obey obama .
SOCIALISM KILLS THE HUMAN SPIRIT!
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!> PATRICK HENRY
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

Akgrl   November 6th, 2008 - 9:19 pm

Absolutely disgusting. This woman should be fired for embarrassing and demeaning this child and her family for their choice. She is in a position of authority and you can clearly see how nervous the kids are in answering her question. I certainly hope that she is held accountable for her actions.
The chairperson for the ACS board of education can be contacted here:gene.bell@asheville.k12.nc.us

Julianna   November 6th, 2008 - 9:20 pm

Now that Barrack has won, does anyone else think that it is odd and slightly erie that all the media and his supporters talk about is him being black. I thought this election was about Issues and Usually after a President is elected the media and supporters talk about his wonderful policies, and economic plans, stance on immigration and so on. But they’re not. All they are talking about is what a milestone this is for Blacks/ African-Americans. I think we need to focus on what he is going to do for this country. Not his color. Am I all alone in this observation?

Ignorant WITCH   November 6th, 2008 - 9:53 pm

HOW IN HE11 did that IDIOT ever get a Teaching Certificate? Or *did* she?

WHERE is this school?

WHAT an arrogant, stupid, pushy (and LYING) WITCH! (spelt with a B!).

2nd American Revolution   November 6th, 2008 - 9:58 pm

Mrs.Idiot Black Woman–people don’t live past 120 years old.No infantry man ever made is going to fight a war 100 years. Oh, I already contacted your superintendent(i am a very patient man, i will see you fired)

OH JESUS??   November 6th, 2008 - 9:59 pm

Did she say “OH JESUS!” when the child answered that she supported McCain???

White folks get a damned backbone   November 6th, 2008 - 10:00 pm

see my heading

The Commissar of Education   November 6th, 2008 - 10:07 pm

This is what is meant by Reeducation Camps.

Parents be on guard of your children being bullied by teachers trying to browbeat your children out of their opinions. This will be the rule for the next 4 years as it has been for some time now with politically opinionated teachers trying to impose their opinion on your children.

Don’t hesitate to complain to principals or school board members if you experience this.
Remember it is never aimed at children with Democrat parents or views, only conservative parents or religious parents and children.

Firsthand knowledge   November 6th, 2008 - 10:07 pm

My wife works in the NC school system, black women work as teachers aids to the white teachers typically. They do not act like subordinates though and make the teachers perform the duties they should be doing. If corrected, they go as a group to the principal and cry racism. If not for affirmative action none of them would be employed.They are all former welfare moms with no husbands who take phony 2 year degree programs here locally to get their positions.I kid you not.

beverly   November 6th, 2008 - 10:08 pm

Whoa there….thanks for the great link. it says where she doesn’t work but did i miss where she IS teaching? i really would like to contact the school.

John Brown   November 6th, 2008 - 10:12 pm

I John Brown am now quite certain that the sins of Black Americans cannot be cleansed but with……

tmedlin   November 6th, 2008 - 10:13 pm

It appears she does teach in Fayetteville at Mary McArthur elementary school. The principal’s email address is:http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/email/lolabwilliams.htm

Here is the link to the school board which I will be writing to.

http://www.communications.ccs.k12.nc.us/Board/BOE.htm

Truth takes a holiday   November 6th, 2008 - 10:13 pm

It is true, the n–word is to gentle for some people

Lone Wolf   November 6th, 2008 - 10:13 pm

Bring this B!tch to me!

carljr   November 6th, 2008 - 10:32 pm

UNBELIEVEABLE !!!

When she asked the students to name their preference for president, 2 of the kids mentioned McCain and she followed it with “oh god!” and “oh lordy” THEN at the end had the ovaries to say she was opened minded to the children mentioning their own preferences. Did she even hear herself speak?

Brenda C   November 6th, 2008 - 10:40 pm

tmedlin:
Thank you so much for info. I just emailed to the school and I pray this lady is removed from destroying any other young child.

MayDrayson   November 6th, 2008 - 10:49 pm

HOMESCHOOL HOMESCHOOL HOMESCHOOL

Kaki K   November 6th, 2008 - 10:55 pm

This teacher’s comments were totally inappropriate and unprofessional. In a “discussion”, no child should be made to feel that his opinion is wrong. She ridiculed the child in front of her peers, and the girl is probably already experiencing stress having a father in a war zone. The teacher should be fired, or at least disciplined.

stillwonderin'   November 6th, 2008 - 10:59 pm

Two things:

1) “Lampshades November 6th, 2008 – 7:36 pm

from Demdicks

“Some Jewish groups are already grumbling about buyer’s remorse as well, TOO LAAATE! – FACT!â€Â

Frankly I don’t give a hoot about grumbling goos since they votes 80% for Hussein Messiah-x. I say they deserve to become lamp shades for their stupidity.”

The comment I pasted above is the most horrible thing I’ve read on any comment board — conservative or liberal — in a long, long time. It’s not about political correctness. It’s about human decency. Please!

2) This beast is straight out the movies about the indoctrination of school children in newly communist Russia — ridiculing children in class for their religious and social affiliations, actively marginalizing them, and creating an atmosphere of suspicion and division within classrooms.

Stories about Germany in the 1930s are chock full of stories like this, too: Jewish children who went from normal, happy childhoods to being the object of ridicule and humiliation by teachers, and who were jeered, stripped of privileges, academic awards, and refused participation in school activities with their classmates.

The footage gave me the creeps and reading the comment highlighted above didn’t help.

Bill   November 6th, 2008 - 11:03 pm

That teacher sounded retarded and like she had balls or something in her mouth.

Isabelle B   November 6th, 2008 - 11:08 pm

It’s really unbelievable that this woman calls herself a teacher. If I were the mother of this child I would see to it ASSP that she got transferred out of this woman’s classroom. This woman is out of line signaling out a young child because her parent is in the military.This ignorant fool should be dealt with by the School Board. She is a prime example of why School Choice is important and why so many parents would like to have the opportunity to send their children to private schoools. This fool is typical of the Obama voters they voted for him because he happens to be Black and that’s questionable in light of the fact that he was brought up in a White household. Obama has as much in common with the Black community as I do and when he’s in office we’ll see how much he’ll do for the Black Community

K   November 6th, 2008 - 11:09 pm

tmedlin — I second Brenda C (and looking back, I see Brenda C mentioned Fayetteville as well, thank you), thanks for clearing up where she works. I hope we all email and/or call the school district in Fayetteville; what she did is inexcusable. She has no business ever teaching again, and the only way any of us can help to make sure that happens is by emailing and calling the school district and Mary McArthur Elementary in Fayetteville.

And I have to say again, I seriously wonder if the parents of that little girl know how her own teacher humiliated and frightened her.

This is extremely distressing, and I’d be just as angry if she had been a McCain supporter doing that — nobody’s child should be subjected to bipartisan political brainwashing and humiliation by their teachers, and they especially shouldn’t be lied to — 100 years indeed! That kiddo looked like she was about to break out into tears after “learning” her father might be gone for a hundred years — very unkind and inappropriate.

If that had been my child…my biggest fear is that I would never know. I hope her parents are aware.

One thing I would ask the school district or Mary McArthur Elementary is if they notified the parents of the child about the incident. Did the school board not review the video before the Finnish producers aired it? Because if they did…they should’ve known what they saw was beyond inappropriate and should have immediately notified the parents and suspended the teacher (they should’ve at LEAST notified the parents and gone from there). If not, the school district itself is at fault, too.

If they did NOT review the video, they were negligent. If they DID review it, they were negligent and looked the other way. If they didn’t even ask the Finnish producers to show the video footage they captured at the school to school officials before leaving, they were ridiculously negligent in assuming all of the footage must be a-ok to air/publish.

Just a few points I think that might be helpful if brought to the Fayetteville school district’s attention.

Good luck, everyone.

K   November 6th, 2008 - 11:11 pm

stillwonderin’ — very good point, in my opinion — EXACTLY. It’s a frightening thing to see in modern America.

This happened to black children too, back in the day, you know. Which makes her even more twisted and wrong, in my opinion — re-living that kind of bigotry and divisiveness in an elementary classroom of all places. She should be ashamed of herself, but likely has no concept of her transgressions, considering her interview at the end of the clip.

On a positive note, she very well might find out, and soon…

Brian   November 6th, 2008 - 11:12 pm

Wow!! I guess persecution is alive and well. This “lady” is an educator??? Are you kidding me?? How can a individual like this be left alone around young impressionable minds? Obviously she has no grasp of the complex issues that are involved in Iraq and Afghanistan nor is this mindless freak grounded in reality. She needs to be immediately fired and her credentials as an educator revoked, say for the next 100 years or so!!!

jandj   November 6th, 2008 - 11:38 pm

just like the blacks when they get caught it was reported wrong or someone in the neighborhood

Mitzi   November 6th, 2008 - 11:39 pm

She needs a teacher browbeating her. Who is she? Does anyone know?

Pablo   November 6th, 2008 - 11:42 pm

Yup. She’s in Cumberland County… Fayetteville. A LONG way away from Asheville.

Her Board:
http://www.communications.ccs.k12.nc.us/Board/BOE.htm

Her School:
http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/faculty_and_staff.htm

Apparently you can email her directly from the school’s website.

You can use your 1st amendment rights as an American to let this woman know what you think of her educational techniques

Email Diantha: http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/email/diathaharris.htm
11/6/2008 11:18:22 PM

Diane Milwaukee, WI   November 6th, 2008 - 11:43 pm

Fire the b***ch

SrimpShack   November 6th, 2008 - 11:48 pm

Folks, this is the norm, not the exception in today’s public skoolz.

Katherine   November 7th, 2008 - 12:00 am

I’m going to get the address of the school where this sickening excuse of a teacher works at, and fire off a letter, priority mail, first thing tomorrow. I urge all of you to do the same, and even call the school!! This is outrageous, and Harris’ remarks are disrespectful of this girl and her parents, they’re racist regarding McCain, and they’re 100% anti-military. Our troops are the world’s finest, and I’m mad as hell, and the school is going to know it! Please shoot off your letters or make a call today! Here’s the Cumberland County Board of Education’s Chairman and his email: Larry Lancaster, lll@nc.rr.com

Paul   November 7th, 2008 - 12:09 am

Emailed her principal. Will call the school tomorrow. 17 year member of the U.S. Military with kids in public school and this video makes me physically ill

Mitzi   November 7th, 2008 - 12:11 am

email: gene.bell@asheville.k12.nc.us
To the Superintendent of Asheville City Schools: NOTICE

Have you seen what’s going on in your schools? Do you condone it?
We insist that you fire her immediately.

view video

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=215103&comments=1

Protect the children from brainwashing by teachers or risk law suit

Ref: Diantha Harris 5th Grade Teacher

Also, we want a public apology to the little girl published in the newspaper for 30 days and a personal apology to the child from Diantha and you. I suggest you also post the apology on your web site for the thousands and thousands of people to see, who
are enraged by this woman’s behavior.

(your name here)
U.S. citizens concerned for the welfare of our children
11-6-2008

(copy & paste above text with your name & email to superintendent.)

mjb   November 7th, 2008 - 12:17 am

This is verbal abuse to an innocent child. This is what “so called educators” do in the classroom
She should be disciplined. This is representative of the failure of the public school system. She is not even in touch with herself to understand what she did. I hope the US outcry gets to her principal and school district. We do NOT have to stand for this.

DianthaHoBag   November 7th, 2008 - 12:18 am

DIANTHA HARRIS is a skanky fat @ss stinky h0 kuunt. Why is a woman with an obvious infectious venereal disease doing teaching our children. Someone please kick her rosy red twatt off a cliff. I hope someone hunts her down and rubs her face in a pile of dog $hit. It couldn’t hurt and would make her look a lot better.

ctaylor-A MILITARY WIFE   November 7th, 2008 - 12:32 am

Its the senseless war statement that gets me as the spouse of a US active duty soldier for 23 years fighting a war and watching the progression of the war into victory-the genocide that Hussein did previously is over. This is not a senseless war, the Iraqi’s do not want us to leave them while they are still weak and this teacher was absolutely in the wrong for indoctinating any of these children with that kind of mindset. I am outraged and disappointed in this sort of behavior by one who should have been more responsible than she was in this video.No matter how you spin it-she said what she said. No action from superiors means that these children are at risk terribly-this is child abuse. They are not her children to indoctrinate without talking specifically to the parents beforehand and getting their permission to do that.

Abe Noxious   November 7th, 2008 - 1:17 am

I would love to question the teacher on National TV about Obama’s claim of wanting to help the poor while giving an average of 3% over 8 years to charity and ask her if she could explain the word “hypocrite” to her class.
Then I’d ask her to describe abortion in detail to her students and ask them to guess which candidate supports it 100%.
In ten minutes I could get that class to agree that McCain is the better candidate.
Then I’d ask them why they think their teacher didn’t tell them about the bad things about Obama and ask if they thought she was a hypocrite?

U.R. Dreaming   November 7th, 2008 - 1:25 am

She should be dismissed. There is no place in our schools for this type of behavior. This “teacher” has betrayed the trust placed in her to be a fair and objective teacher. She has had too much of the Obama kool-aid.

Lady liberty   November 7th, 2008 - 1:33 am

Well folks hate to tell you but this crap was going on in all schools…Thats right the brainwashing of our youth…If you think this is unexceptable stop whinning & fight back go to your local school board meetings…GET THE IDEA?

Julee   November 7th, 2008 - 1:41 am

I remember as a child in the mid 60’s growing up in South Dakota, we were not rich but my father paid our own way we received no welfare, yet the people that were better of financially then us looked down on us. So when I saw these same people treat unjustly the Native American peoples, my suspicions of their motives were great and when I’d hear from these same people the N-word to describe a people I’d never laid on on. I made up my own mind to not be against someone or something unless I had first hand knowledge of my own.
I only hope these children can see the same, and if so all educators they encounter will be viewed with equal suspicion.

This women is a prime example of how unions protect unqualified,ineffective, nonproductive workers.

nonya   November 7th, 2008 - 1:54 am

This teacher should be FIRED. As should any other teacher who thinks it is their job to Politically Indoctrinate our Children.

Teachers listen up. It is your job to dispassionately teach our children the facts as they are and encourage our children to make their own discoveries. It is not your job to scare the hell out of our kids, or indoctrinate them into lines of thought that are counter to their raising. And before you accuse me of being a right winger who just wants to pick on your politically correct dialogue, KNOW THIS. The kind of indoctrination this teacher was forcing on that child has been done many times in our past. From the belief that black slaves were inferior beings and thus justifying that horrific institution to the Nazi propoganda which lead children to believe that the systematic genocide of Jews was a duty to the Fatherland. To the West bank of today where Children are taught to hate Jews enough to strap explosives and nails to their chests and kill the inoccent.

I for one hope that little girls father stays in the Military as I am indepted to his service. And I sincerely hope that this teacher is FIRED and the Union that represents her should turn its back on her.

Dave   November 7th, 2008 - 1:56 am

This lying piece of crap needs to be fired. Her treatment of this student is child abuse! God help us all if people like this are allowed to poison the minds of America’s children. Fire this worthless piece of garbage NOW!!!!

thiaCyn   November 7th, 2008 - 1:58 am

Well I made my call, now America and peeps that love children and don’t want them used as a propaganda tool, it’s abuse! Call this number and tell them she should be fired! And thank you ap for the info!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEAYgm0Dv8

Asheville City Schools
Attn: Superintendent
85 Mountain Street
Asheville, NC 28801
Superintendent Allen Johnson – (828) 350-7000

Pablo   November 7th, 2008 - 2:15 am

Yup. She’s in Cumberland County… Fayetteville. A LONG way away from Asheville.

Her Board:
http://www.communications.ccs.k12.nc.us/Board/BOE.htm

Her School:
http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/faculty_and_staff.htm

Apparently you can email her directly from the school’s website.

You can use your 1st amendment rights as an American to let this woman know what you think of her educational techniques

Email Diantha: http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/email/diathaharris.htm

Svenn Madagsen   November 7th, 2008 - 2:16 am

TO :
thiaCyn November 7th, 2008 – 1:58 am
—————————————

She DOES NOT work in Asheville any longer. READ the posts before you post erroneous information that just wastes people’s time!

Trey   November 7th, 2008 - 2:29 am

In case you need it again:

Asheville City Schools
Attn: Superintendent
85 Mountain Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 350-7000

This will not stand! Outrageous to ask a child about private political, religious, or sexual beliefs. Unacceptable. Ethically, an eggregious crossing of lines.

Elayne   November 7th, 2008 - 2:31 am

It is appalling to think that this poor little girl has to sit at her desk with this humungous drill sargent in her face day after day. Children should be happy in school, but those poor kids all look beaten down and scared to talk. I didn’t see one joyful happy expression, and no wonder, with this grossly obese prison guard wanna-be intimidating them. My suggestion to the little girls mother is to sue for damages against the teacher, the school, the school district, the school board, and the school principal for violation of her civil rights. The conduct of the teacher has apparently created a hostile and offensive environment, impairing the students learning experience. It is called Prohibited discrimation and harassment. Prohibited discrimination and harassment are not only unacceptable, they are illegal.

art in sd   November 7th, 2008 - 3:05 am

Sad state of affairs this fat piece of dung gets to influience youg minds ! hey fat ass teach the basics reading writing and math!!Keep you lame statements to you fat self!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fire Her   November 7th, 2008 - 3:13 am

Why was some foreign guy filming this would-be class in the first place? And how DUMB was that woman, to act like that in front of a camera?

What a dolt! Fire her.

Who is John Galt?   November 7th, 2008 - 4:00 am

Of course this is sick manipulation from a teacher and sadly there are a lot of them like her. I am grateful I don’t any longer have school aged children.

WHAT I WANT TO KNOW, is how many warped people think what the teacher was doing is okay?

K   November 7th, 2008 - 5:38 am

Folks, once again, she works in Fayetteville, NOT Asheville. In North Carolina, that is. There’s a post just a few behind this one with the _accurate_ info (if it says Asheville, she no longer works there and hasn’t for awhile, I think!).

Mary   November 7th, 2008 - 6:01 am

The reason this is so scary, is because it is happening everywhere..not just in N.C…This video needs to get out to FOX NEWS. They will show it….the other bias news channels won’t, but fox will…send it to Hannity

Mr. Cheer!   November 7th, 2008 - 7:06 am

Trey November 7th, 2008 – 2:29 am

In case you need it again:

——————————–

Wat an idiot! Stop giving out the wrong address. She hasn’t worked in Asheville schools for quite some time.

OBAMA WILL DESTROY THE USA!   November 7th, 2008 - 7:11 am

Yup. She’s in Cumberland County… Fayetteville. A LONG way away from Asheville.

Her Board:
http://www.communications.ccs.k12.nc.us/Board/BOE.htm

Her School:
http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/faculty_and_staff.htm

Apparently you can email her directly from the school’s website.

You can use your 1st amendment rights as an American to let this woman know what you think of her educational techniques

Email Diantha: http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/email/diathaharris.htm

Mr. Cheer!   November 7th, 2008 - 7:14 am

DIANTHA HARRIS is one sweaty piece of suet that is going to have a bad Friday!

Ha ha ha

Sara   November 7th, 2008 - 8:03 am

Let’s hope the racists of the far left keep this kind of dishonorable behavior going. They will convert a generation of American children to the ideals of constitutional freedom!

Some of the kids in that class will be too stupid and lacking in empathy to understand the violation that occured in that classroom. But any child with character who witnessed it will never forget the hate and ignorance of that stupid lefty.

CommonSense   November 7th, 2008 - 8:51 am

Here are the email addresses for the entire board in Cumberland county…..
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

Stephen Woodworth   November 7th, 2008 - 9:00 am

This is quite possibly the best argument for home schooling ever published. Those who can, do. Those who can’t,….

Become a teacher after retiring from private enterprise. Tell these kids the truth.

Jen   November 7th, 2008 - 9:44 am

I could not even watch this to the end. What a sad, sad commentary on what is ‘teaching’ our children today.

A Adams   November 7th, 2008 - 9:46 am

I resented many of my teachers then and I still do today. Had I listened to them I would have ended up nowhere. They distain independent thought and are despots. Good thing I don’t have kids or I would be in these monster’s faces.

Katie   November 7th, 2008 - 9:49 am

don’t forget to add “Those who can, do. Those who can’t teach AND those you can’t teach, Govern.”

@Stephen Woodworth November 7th, 2008 – 9:00 am

“This is quite possibly the best argument for home schooling ever published. Those who can, do. Those who can’t,….

Become a teacher after retiring from private enterprise. Tell these kids the truth.”

Stop Being Ridiculous   November 7th, 2008 - 9:56 am

Honestly people. Has anyone here ever tried to film anything? Look at the way the video was put together. Either there were at least three cameras in the room, the whole thing was staged, or it was severely edited. Bottom line, we’re not getting the whole story here. She has claimed that the video was edited. Stop rushing to condemn the woman; certainly, condemn the actions of berating children or forcing one’s views on another, but don’t relinquish your own dignity by resorting to petty and fruitless name-calling.

Karl   November 7th, 2008 - 10:00 am

This is why democrats want to brainwash your children at the earliest age aspossible. So when they turn into sheep they will follow the flock where ever they are told. As you can see in this 2008 election thier plan is working a little bit at a time, the blind leading the blind.CHANGE, what a clueless bunch of idiots. People crying that the Massiah has just come to save them from thier electric bill or filling thier car with gas.What a bunch of Morons.

[...] Should this teacher be fired? Should this teacher be fired? Breitbart.tv » Obama-Supporting Teacher Gives Soldier’s Daughter Hard Time [...]

Been there....   November 7th, 2008 - 10:24 am

To the people who says her comments were taken out of context:

She’s wearing an Obama political pin.

She was not taken out of context.

Her actions are unconscionable. Hers were blantant, but there are thousands of other teachers who were more sublte in manipulating the students.

Pita88   November 7th, 2008 - 10:34 am

Diantha Harris is a 5th Grade “Teacher” at Mary McArthur Elementary School, Fayetteville, NC. Below are contacts you can contact to voice your opinions.

June St. Clair Atkinson
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
919.807.3430

Phyllis West
Senior Policy Advisor to the State Superintendent
919.807.3434

Monique Wertis
Special Assistant
919.807.3432

Priscilla Weber
Special Assistant
919.807.3436

Mary McArthur Elementary School
3809 Village Drive Fayetteville, NC 28304
Phone:(910) 424-2206 Fax: (910) 424-3451

Lola B. Williams
Principal
http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/email/lolabwilliams.htm
LolaW@ccs.k12.nc.us

Diantha Harris (Teacher/indoctrinator)
http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/email/diathaharris.htm

uraunicorn   November 7th, 2008 - 10:42 am

and why did the other little girl want change? why did the teacher want eveybody to vote for obama? for the first black man to become president. RIGHT? Well the People of iraq if you ask what they want most is… FREEDOM,to all be the same as the rest of the world. “thier rights” some of them has the same goals as blacks, same faith, tired of slavery to thier own country, to vote, to be alike, just to be like them! is she judging the iraq people because the COLOR OF THIER SKIN? they should have no rights? it is a useless war?
obama would NOT like what she has done
obama is a mix race!!! obama wants CHANGE! obama wants all to have rights no matter what color you are.

lincoln didnt give up, i dont think obama should really

richard   November 7th, 2008 - 10:47 am

Not only that, but she said the words “Lord” and “Jesus”. in a public school.
Now THAT can really get you in hot water.

Fred Gates   November 7th, 2008 - 11:00 am

No wonder our schools are in such sad shape. Morons like this are teaching our children. Instead of engaging these small children in her brand of biased politics, she should be teaching the kids arithmetic, reading, writing, social studies and other age appropriate material. Political brainwashing should be left to the experts and administered only when the kids are in late high school – college. She’s also wasting valuable teaching time.

Lars   November 7th, 2008 - 11:02 am

This is why kids do not learn, they are instead indoctrinated at “Government Education Camps”. The “intelligence” of the teacher shows her ignorance of the job she is suppose to perform. Now is the time for home schooling and vouchers. Teachers like this, who are protected by the Unions should be FIRED.

tnmedic   November 7th, 2008 - 11:04 am

Wow, she needs to be fired for sure… Oh wait, she belongs to a union….giver her a raise!!!! she has no business being a teacher but unfortunately, as with all unionized labor, you can’t get rid of the poor performers.

CindyLou   November 7th, 2008 - 11:15 am

I AM SICK! WHAT A TURD!

travis smith   November 7th, 2008 - 12:18 pm

the 60+million who put a man in as presendent who is zero talents to be commander in chief must have taught by a teacher like this.

Liza   November 7th, 2008 - 12:58 pm

Does that piece of trash parading as a teacher have no shame? It is infuriating to watch her humiliate a little girl whose father is serving his country! What kind of school system would put up with this?

[...] Posted by Stinger Should this teacher be fired? Breitbart.tv � Obama-Supporting Teacher Gives Soldier’s Daughter Hard Time Not fired, but reprimanded and warned. That was very insensitive and intimidating to the girl [...]

nonya   November 7th, 2008 - 1:29 pm

Here’s the school info for mrs. Diatha Harris.

Mary McArthur Elementary School
3809 Village Drive
Fayetteville, NC 28304

PH (910) 424-2206
FX (910) 424-3451

School Website Link:
http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/

I would also encourage calls to the state board of education, the District Attorney of Cumberland County, NC. And the North Carolina State Attorney Generals Offic for possible Criminal charges of Child Abuse and abuse of office.

Brenda C   November 7th, 2008 - 1:53 pm

Does anyone have any information on this young girl? Her last name or anything would help. It would be great if we ALL would send a card or note to Cathy letting her know she is brave young lady and respected by us. I would even send her some money for a lawyer. God Bless you Cathy in case you ever read these. Hold your head up and be proud of your father and your country.

Liza   November 7th, 2008 - 2:00 pm

I agree, Brenda C. I believe that this girl was abused. I wish I could do something to help.

Brenda C   November 7th, 2008 - 2:15 pm

Liza:
Please go to school website or call. I have done both. I refuse to sit back and let this go without speaking up. That’s what’s wrong with our country now. We’ve all sit back and waited for others thinking they would protect us. It’s time we take our country back. Go to Pitta88 or nonya comment and you can click on website and find phone numbers.

Billy Sykes   November 7th, 2008 - 3:00 pm

I didn’t think my spirits could sink any lower after witnessing the results of our election. Then I watched that video of that horrible woman verbally assault an impressionable little girl.The people of this nation should demand that the schooling of our young people be ripped from the clutches of the Government. My heart grieves over the fate of my country.

[...] Posted by Stinger Should this teacher be fired? Breitbart.tv � Obama-Supporting Teacher Gives Soldier’s Daughter Hard Time No…I would also dissapprove of a Conservative teacher being fired for harrassing Liberal [...]

Michael Branson   November 7th, 2008 - 3:23 pm

I find it noteworthy that, of the 137 posts as of this writing, only ONE had the audacity to suggest that this woman was in any way innocent. She was NOT taken out of context, and I can’t WAIT to hear that she HAS been FIRED!! Not that we expect anything different from the public screwel system . . .

Tammy F   November 7th, 2008 - 3:43 pm

I hope the student’s dad comes home from Iraq and comes up there for a parent teacher conference in full uniform. Doesn’t this witch know that he is fighting for her freedom to be able say that she’s disgusted because other students would vote for McCain and not her present-elect.

She’s in Fayetteville, NC. We need to contact them and tell them that she needs to go. If we can take God of out the schools, we can certainly run that woman out. Of course, she’ll throw the black flag.

Liza   November 7th, 2008 - 4:38 pm

Go to the website shown above posted by nonya. You can send a message to the principal of the school. I did. If enough of us do, maybe we can make a difference. What happened is inexcusable and we need to speak up!

thiaCyn   November 7th, 2008 - 5:16 pm

To Svenn Madagsen, posted because he is uninformed ;)

Whatever your spewing you can pull it out of your, oh well you get the message Swed boy! I don’t care where this piece of work teacher is from and I won’t go after the board I go to the heart, THE SUPERINTENDENT of SCHOOLS is where this is taken to, and it’s called protocol! Now go back to where your from and stay off the soil! ;)

Svenn Madagsen   November 7th, 2008 - 6:01 pm

TO : thiaCyn November 7th, 2008 – 5:16 pm

—————-

You half-wit knee jerk reactionary.

Asheville and Fayettesville are 260 miles part.

Look on a map if you can read one.

paul descartes   November 7th, 2008 - 6:18 pm

How disgusting that she would try to make a political statement in front of that girl’s classmates.

Fire her sorry ass.

miike   November 7th, 2008 - 7:35 pm

Imbecile, what a heartless **** talking to that precious child that way. Insensitive moron!

Kevin   November 7th, 2008 - 7:44 pm

I work is a US school system. This stuff is commonplace. I can only ponder why our country has lasted as long as it has…. I feel for that kid! The pressure she was under was terrible. If that was a white teacher basically attacking a black student, there would be hell to pay. MORONS DO NOT DESERVE A FREE COUNTRY. And I believe we just sealed the deal for the US… It’s OVER!

Alright   November 7th, 2008 - 7:54 pm

You guys have rocked Diantha’s world. Cumberland county superintendent’s YouTube response:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ta9XKQXgE

Way to go gang!

Liza   November 7th, 2008 - 8:14 pm

Thanks for the link, Alright! And thanks to all who registered their complaints. It does help to speak up when you see gross misconduct such as this.

PJB   November 7th, 2008 - 8:49 pm

“John McCain, O Lord, John McCain O Jesus” That doesn’t sound like “that’s fine” to me. That poor girl looked terrified as the teacher looked over her glasses and let her know how dumb she was for being a McCain supporter. Her father is serving our country. What that poor kid must have felt like. This is absolutely despicable and her lame explanation does not fly with me…. it didn’t even make it to the runway.

Mr. Cheer!   November 7th, 2008 - 8:49 pm

Have a bad week-end, Diantha!

Hahahahaha!!!

ainnj   November 7th, 2008 - 8:55 pm

Whoa. What a horrid woman! That poor little girl and all those little kids in that class that were browbeaten and frightened by her awful discussion and the ones that will learn from that and browbeat their fellow classmates! Not only should she fired but she should NEVER be allowed to work with children again. I am very grateful that I live in a town where teachers care about their students. My children came home discussing both candidates and their platforms, and their teachers told them that at the end of the school year they would tell them who they voted for but not before then. No child was afraid to speak up and say whom she/he wanted to be president.

Robin in Georgia   November 7th, 2008 - 9:38 pm

Who else wonders if the reason for this Swedish documentary was to show their students that our teachers here in America are ignorant idiots, who have been blinded by race in this election?

I will bet that most of the students in Sweden are smarter than most of the teachers who are gracing our government indoctrination camps these days.

This is the school she works at now :
Mary McArthur Elementary School
3809 Village Drive Fayetteville, NC 28304
Phone:(910) 424-2206 Fax: (910) 424-3451

http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/

The link to her direct email has been yanked. But her name is there. 5th grade teacher.

http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/faculty_and_staff.htm

Phyllis   November 8th, 2008 - 3:46 am

I felt so sorry for this beautiful girl being humiliated like this in front of the whole class. Did you see the way the little black boy next to her looked at her? The teacher didn’t see her face and stop??? After this how is she going to feel facing her classmates every day?

This was on Fox news tonight, 11-7-08 and they said they were pretty sure Bill O’Reilly will look into this too. I don’t look at CNN, MSNBC or the other Obama stations so I don’t know if they presented this yet.

I am still wondering what they are doing or if they are going to do something about those military absentee votes not counted. They can fight for our country but not get their vote counted!!!! This teacher(?) doesn’t seem to respect our military anymore than she respects this childs’ feelings…..

Sheila   November 8th, 2008 - 4:32 am

Highly inappropriate to browbeat these children over politics, when she should be teaching them.

She deserves to be fired post haste.

Choctaw   November 8th, 2008 - 7:29 am

This teacher is an idiot. And she lied in the final video..My hope is that this make-believe teacher is fired.
The United States of America does not ‘end a war’ by pulling out. That’s surrender. Wars or ended by winning them and killing or disabling the enemy, period.

Linda   November 8th, 2008 - 8:27 am

How dare this woman do that to that child!!! And what a liar! “When they told me they were voting for McCain, I said “that’s fine”" I don’t think statements like “Oh Jesus”, “Oh Lord, McCain” equate to “that’s fine.” Someone needs to report her, and I will gladly do it if someone tells me what school she works at!

SuperSarge229   November 8th, 2008 - 9:10 am

You think it’s bad now? That mouthy ngiegr sult is what will be running public schools within two years! Just more proof of how bad the dumbed down, government school educated, let me vote myself some money, lazy, Hollywood hypnotised majority has screwed up by electing the Talking Monkey Boy from Illinois!

SuperSarge229   November 8th, 2008 - 9:18 am

“He be sayin our troops be stayin in Iraq an shee..”

Affirmative Action in Action

Bubo   November 8th, 2008 - 12:45 pm

This is repeated thousands of times a day in the schools as teachers force feed ideology to defenseless students.

The only valid point of view is liberal.

Don Howell   November 8th, 2008 - 2:13 pm

This prejudiced bigot should be fired. She owes both the soldier and his daughter an apology. Shame on any school supt. who allows her to continue but then what can you expect from N. C.

Brenda C   November 8th, 2008 - 3:45 pm

The young girls name is Kathy Thompson. We all should send her a card or drop a note to the school for her. Tell her we are proud of her.

This is the school she works at now :
Mary McArthur Elementary School
3809 Village Drive Fayetteville, NC 28304
Phone:(910) 424-2206 Fax: (910) 424-3451

http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/

justsmithers   November 9th, 2008 - 10:55 pm

How dare this teacher ask her students about their parents’ voting preferences! They did this ratting out your parents BS in NAZI Germany too! This so-called teacher has no place in a truly tolerant and non-Liberal-slanted public school system (if such a thing exists). She should be fired immediately and a REAL teacher put in her place!!!

There is absolutely no fathomable reason why adult issues and pressures should be put on kids and then the kids being asked to defend them and be ridiculed for their views. None. Zip. This teacher had a position of trust and influence with her students and she abused it. She must be removed from the school system!

justsmithers   November 9th, 2008 - 11:12 pm

Kevin, I think that you have unfortunately but correctly identified the death knell for our country and our free society:

MORONS DO NOT DESERVE A FREE COUNTRY.

Already Emperor-elect Obama is saying that he will use his Presidential authority to issue executive orders to “fix” things. see:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081109/D94BM1O00.html

Way to go, Obama supporters! Your messiah is already chomping at the bit!

Mike   November 10th, 2008 - 2:56 am

Actually what we have here is a person that is ignorant. You can’t have a battle of intelligence with an unarmed person. Don’t know what school that is, but the teacher should be put on admin leave and this event looked at. To brow beat a child that has no control on her position was simply a shame. If the school district itself condones this behavior, it would be time to find your child if they are attending another school other than this one.

TX REPUB   November 10th, 2008 - 12:42 pm

In Mein Kampf Hitler professed that if you indoctrinate the minds of the youth you essentially control minds for 2 generations. I cant imagine why so many Obama supporting teachers continue to indoctrinate students…

Nietzschean   November 10th, 2008 - 2:32 pm

God, our teachers are terrible, as a general proposition. Can you imagine how low her test scores to get into college must have been? On the SAT scale, I’d estimate well below 1,000. This sort of thing happens every day from elementary schools to major universities. Though in most cases there’s no one videotaping the bullying. Unfortunately.

Joanne   November 10th, 2008 - 3:26 pm

I will never vote for another levy, and I hope this b*&ch gets so much pressure from the community that she is convicted to leave. Some “teacher.” This is what government schools have gotten us… marxist degenerates like this sorry excuse for a “teacher.” If not for soldiers, her sorry, (HUGE) a$$ would be shoveling french fries.

There’s another surge (read “revolution”) coming, and it will be against communists like this one. Their “messiah’s” governance will determine whether or not the impetus is a figurative or literal civil war…

Amy   November 10th, 2008 - 3:55 pm

This kind of liberal bigotry and brainwashing is everywhere in our public school system. My 13 yr old (8th grade) is in a special needs school on the campus of an inpatient facility. for Autism. He lives on the campus because of his disability. The school is still part of the public school system.
When I went to pick him up for a pass, he berated me for driving a gas powered vehicle instead of using an electric car or biking (it’s 45 miles away) and told me about how Obama was going to bring about change by cutting out oil and we would all use wind and solar. Anyone who voted for McCain was voting to destroy the planet. Ok, now our family is ultra conservative. We have been for generations. My son is like a tape recorder. He can repeat conversations (part of the Autism) so I KNOW exactly what has been going on in that classroom. How DARE they teach these special needs kids with extra sensitive minds their liberal policies!! It’s rampant in the public school system on a national level, and all the way into the highest levels. We really need our superintendents to clean house and to HE11 with the unions. In with socially responsible and well educated teachers and OUT with bureaucracy!!

(However, we gave our son Our views, and he refused to participate in any political discussions when he returned to school on Monday, calling the teacher ignorant and misguided. We got a nasty call from the principal. We told him that our son could have any political views he wanted, and that he should not have to be pressured by his teacher. The principal hung up most testily.)

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