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Teacher: Obama and Romney not the same

May 22, 2012 @ 11:53 am (Updated: 12:53 pm - 5/22/12 )

The nation is buzzing with talk about the antics of a North Carolina teacher who's bias for President Obama spilled over into her classroom. After introducing Mitt Romney as a high school bully, student Hunter Roge inserted the fact that Obama has admitted to being a bully as well. Let's set aside the overuse of the term "bully" of late, and just focus on the hysterical rantings of the teacher once confronted with this information. She told the student to shut up. She tried to prevent him from talking about the President's history. She proved incapable of engaging the student in a discussion involving perspectives not her own. She was incapable of seeing her own bias at best, actively saw it and tried to indoctrinate kids with it at worst. BUT NONE OF THIS was the most outrageous thing about the video to me.

The worst thing was that the audio displayed a total lack of classroom control, of self-control, of basic understanding of her subject matter. The student was correct in his assertion about Obama and Romney being the same, but he also uses language inappropriate for a student to use toward a teacher--and you can't blame him because the teacher is setting the standard.

The initial response of the school was "let's see if this goes away" followed by a "let's give a private suspension and let this blow over" but it seems to me that in addition to the problem of the specific incident revealed in the audio being an immediate concern, the greater problem of a woefully incompetent teacher should warrant their long-term attention.

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  • KingRufus wrote...
    buzz
    May 22, 2012 12:15 pm
    if the nation is really "buzzing" about this then we are in far worse shape than I imagined.
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  • Top Grunt wrote...
    Another incompetent union thug
    May 22, 2012 12:20 pm
    Example of a union thug in the classroom, this person was not a teacher no way in hell. America wonders why our children are not learning what we learned in school, why they cannot read or write or do basic math. The teachers union will not enforce high standard on it teachers, the union wants to tell them what they can and cant teach in the classroom. Dont get me wrong there are a whole lot of teachers that are just as fed up with the union not supporting them and representing them.
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  • Drool wrote...
    Grunt, No,
    May 22, 2012 12:53 pm
    Just an example of a thug...and idiot. Some people are so blinded with their ideology that they refuse to entertain discussion to the contrary as if the mere hearing of heresy will contaminate them.
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    I really could not believe...
    May 22, 2012 12:28 pm
    ...the absolute lack of control that teacher has over her classroom. She's also a mindless parrot of liberal lies.
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  • Drool wrote...
    There's Plenty of Mindless Parrots on Both Sides.
    May 22, 2012 12:54 pm
    You saw one on camera telling Senator McCain that Obama was an Arab.
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  • Snout wrote...
    This woman is a teacher?
    May 22, 2012 1:06 pm
    Set aside this issue. She can't speak. Good grief, she sounds like she never made it past the first grade herself. I've argued with leftist teachers and professors. But they can debate without sounding like some woman who just found out her boyfriend is not the father of her child on "Maury."
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    So, WHO was the adult ???
    May 22, 2012 1:51 pm
    First two times I heard this, was just the audio. So sounded like who turned out to be the student was the teacher. How could this person get, let alone keep, a teaching position ? Not only was she immature and condecending but vicious and bullying - and ignorant - all at the same time. ... I certainly hope that such conduct is NOT what the students of that district believe is 'normal' for teachers. If it is, then maybe high drop out rates are neither the fault of the parents not the kids.
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  • Drool wrote...
    Ron,
    May 22, 2012 3:34 pm
    That was my thought exactly. The student was using cogent arguments and reason to explain his position to the teacher and WHY he was allowed to offer them. Smart kid....dumb teacher. If she had half a brain she would engage the kid (and class) in an discussion rather than stomping out a position she didn't like. It seems to explain the education level of some of those states.
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