NC teacher reportedly suspended after telling student not to criticize Obama
A North Carolina high school teacher reportedly has been suspended with pay after she was captured on video shouting at a student who questioned President Obama and suggesting he could be arrested for criticizing a sitting president.The Salisbury Post reported Monday that district school officials suspended the teacher in the course of their investigation into the incident.
She was suspended? That is pretty surprising. Now, granted, she was suspended with pay, so basically she got a paid vacation for screaming, intimidating, and basically berating a student over their political beliefs. I mean, you can hear other students laughing at this teacher while the student she berates tries to get a straight answer out of her - this woman has no control whatsoever over her classroom.
I also wonder what she felt about "disrespecting the President of the United States" when it was George Bush in office...
That is all.
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Schools can show surprising levels of common sense when you give them the chance. It's only the wack jobs who make the news.
Suspension with pay is common when a teacher is being investigated for possible policy or other violations. "Innocent until proven guilty" means you can't outright fire them or withhold their salary while they're being investigated, but at the same time if there's a possibility they may be harmful to the students they have to be removed from the school.
My guess is it's the teacher's behavior that is being investigated, not her politics.
I'm not surprised. It's near the end of the school year. So they claim that they're investigating (while she spends the last few weeks of school at home watching Oprah and eating bon-bons) and once summer is over the investigation gets closed and she starts teaching again assuming that this is completely out of the news (and it will be).
Disrespecting George Bush?? The dims were just telling the truth then.
Jay, you know that "Things are DIFFERENT when you are a dimocrat."
The rules do not apply the same way, or at all. It's only the conservatives that must be polite and respectful.
Keep repeating to yourself "Things are DIFFERENT when you are a dimocrat." You'll be ok.
Jay: we know exactly how she felt about disrespecting President Bush. At one point, one of the other students reportedly said "but plenty of people said s#!t about President Bush when he was in office", to which the teacher replied "that's because he was a s#!tty President".
So much for her excuse of "showing respect for the President" in a social studies class...
A few years ago, my eldest came home and casually mentioned something she'd heard in class -- that America had had no military reason to drop the Nagasaki bomb, because by then the Japanese had already surrendered. I told her she was dead wrong; she belligerently asked if I thought I knew more than her teacher. I said "yes", and looked up the dates with her. She was dumbfounded... and, to her credit, she then challenged her teacher, armed with facts. The teacher admitted the error and shrugged it off. No doubt it fit the teacher's narrative, so she never bothered to look it up.
Home schooling is looking better and better...
Salisbury, NC. What else happened there? The first baseball games in the South, at a Confederate run prison camp notorious for its' death rate when it became overcrowded and the water supply contaminated:
http://www.salisburync.gov/prison/1.html
http://www.salisburyprison.org/PrisonHistory.htm
What happens when you pack 10,000 people into a place designed to hold 2,000? Disease and death.
Uh, the teacher said, something close to "they put people in jail for criticizing Bush" more liberal narrative. Those darned Republicans crushing free speech.
Suspension with pay is generally a prelude to termination. It gives the appointing authority time to investigate the case without imposing discipline.
It actually makes it easier to fire the person in the long run.
We can only hope.
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