Teacher Suspended, With Pay: North Carolina Incident is Perfect Storm of Educational Indoctrination, Media Malpractice
Four years ago, in a different North Carolina school, teacher Diawatha Harris browbeat a school kid for supporting John McCain instead of Barack Obama for president.
Harris is by no means alone among educators supporting Barack Obama. That isn’t the problem. The problem is, she also isn’t alone in abusing her authority to indoctrinate school kids.
The mainstream does its part to indoctrinate our young.
And so we arrive at the North Rowan High School in North Carolina, May 2012. Teacher Tanya Dixon-Neely loses control of a political discussion in her classroom. As we and everyone else have reported, she lost her cool in a political argument with a student regarding Mitt Romney and President Obama. Dixon-Neely had accused Romney of being a bully, and the student, a junior, brought up the fact that Obama has admitted to pushing a girl when he was in grade school himself.
Dixon-Neely wasn’t up on her facts, and denied what the student said, but the student was right, and tragicomedy ensued.
“Stop, no, because there is no comparison,” she says. Romney, she says, is “running for president. Obama is the president.”
When the student says they’re both “just men,” the teacher continues to argue that Romney, as a candidate for president, is not to be afforded the same respect as the president.
The teacher tells the class Obama is “due the respect that every other president is due.”
“Listen, let me tell you something, you will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom,” she says.
The student replies that he’ll say what he wants.
“Not about him you won’t,” the teacher says.
Later in the conversation, the teacher tells the class it’s criminal to slander a president.
“Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush?” she says of former President Bush. “Do you realize you are not supposed to slander the president?”
How did we get here, the greatest nation on earth, arguing over which presidential candidate was a bully during school?
We got here in large part because the mainstream media is full of biased hacks and jokers, and our educational establishment cares more about preserving union power and money than about educating our young. Dixon-Neely would have had no Romney bullying story to bring up, if the Washington Post had not published that story that made the allegation. The Post story ought to become a case study in the malpractice of journalism. It quoted a dead man who, being dead, was unavailable for comment, and suggested that a bullying incident when he was a lad killed him some 46 years later. One of the witnesses quoted later admitted that he only learned of the tale when the Post itself told him about it. But the Post quoted him as having been “long troubled” by the incident. The family of the alleged victim disputed the story, calling it “factually inaccurate.” Romney himself doesn’t even remember it. When he tried laughing the ridiculous story off, partisans in the Democrat media fifth column — I’m looking at you, Kirsten Powers — tried making Romney’s reaction the story. That was because the story itself rapidly fell apart.
Any teacher with basic reading comprehension and any knowledge of how sourcing is supposed to work would never have fallen for that story. Teachers are supposed to know things. They are supposed to be capable of thinking and persuading. But if you’re an incurious teacher who only visits the mainstream media and watches MSNBC and the big three networks, the Post story never fell apart at all. Dixon-Neely was evidently completely unaware that it had, and when challenged by her student who probably spends half his life on the Internet, she tried appealing to Obama’s authority. The ill-informed teacher committed a logical fallacy in that, and if her education was worth the papers her degrees are printed on, she would have known better.
That she did not know better is among the indictments that this incident levels at our media and our educational establishment. The teacher, caught in a corner, first dove for a fallacy, then wrote her own Constitution, one which does not include freedom of speech. The student called her on that, too. This was the second time someone with an actual education would have known better, but Dixon-Neely did not.
The third was when she uttered a profanity in the classroom.
The fourth and final indictment should be levied at the school itself. The argument makes it abundantly clear that Tanya Dixon-Neely is far less informed than her student. It’s clear that she doesn’t even understand the First Amendment. It’s also clear that resorts to bullying — the charge she levied against Mitt Romney, ironically enough — when backed into a corner. In the face of all of this, the school confirms that Dixon-Neely is still employed, has been suspended with pay, and responds:
The Rowan-Salisbury School System expects all students and employees to be respectful in the school environment and for all teachers to maintain their professionalism in the classroom. This incident should serve as an education for all teachers to stop and reflect on their interaction with students. Due to personnel and student confidentiality, we cannot discuss the matter publicly.
She failed on every point. She is incompetent. She ought to be fired. If she gets put back in the classroom once the story blows over, North Rowan High School is failing its students.
But at least all isn’t lost. The student is developing the ability to sort and sift facts, and is getting a sound education from somewhere in spite of his ignorant teacher and weak, probably horribly overpaid, school administrators. If the author of this comment is who he purports to be, the student is getting his real education outside the school:
Timothy Rogers, Salisbury, NC
I’m the father of this student. My son and two other students in this class have been attacked daily from this teacher, and the rest of the class, for their conservative political views since the beginning of this semester. I told him to stay out of the political conversations, but she said that if he didn’t participate he would receive a bad grade. This teacher is politically ignorant! I teach my sons to respect other peoples political opinion, but she has no right shoving her opinions down his throat! Since this day I have had to remove him from North Rowan High School and am going to enroll him at RCCC to finish his education. I am outraged that she can conduct herself in such an unprofessional manner and receive no disciplinary action. THIS IS NOT OVER! I will attempt to contact Rush Limbaugh this week.
It’s a shame the student is leaving the school, and the teacher may stay. The student did nothing wrong, and if she keeps her job the teacher will remain in the classroom to bully and indoctrinate future students. This story is a wake-up call to parents, students and the millions of good teachers who are out there. We have to pay attention to what’s being said in the media, and we have to be aware of what is happening in our kids’ classrooms every day. Just as we have to have blogs to challenge and deconstruct the mainstream media’s rampant malpractice, we cannot leave education to the so-called professionals.
Update: To answer Allah’s question, the teacher is a lefty hack who is also ignorant. The two are not mutually exclusive. She started the fracas with her classroom “fact of the day,” which was “Mitt Romney is a bully.” She based that on the idiotic WaPo haircut story, not realizing that it had been picked apart, and therefore totally unaware that any student might have anything to hit back with. Kid hits back, knows his stuff, exposes teacher for the ignorant lefty hack that she is.
And as one of our commenters pointed out, her “punishment” is paid leave. A vacation without it having to count against her vacation days, or the three months of downtime she’s about to get for the summer. That’s punishment? She’s a lefty hack and the school is run by lefty hacks. It’s looking like the student’s parents were wise to move him out of there.
In a half century the Dem Party has gone from being a foil for Richard Nixon to being worse than Nixon. When I was a kid I thought I’d seen dumb rednecks toeing a party line but what you hear from Dem Party supporters daily today is mind numbingly stupid. Liberals, even the intellectuals in newspapers, are incapable of making the simplest comparisons and are completely dazzled by race and gender, as if they constitute the same space as a holy man one must bend down to and kiss the hand of.
I don’t remember when it was the media started talking about the dumbing down of America but it is far advanced, and of that there is no doubt. I’ll tell you plainly: when I was younger, I, with the exact same brain I have now, was considered something of a below average moron. Today, I look like a frickin’ genius compared to this woman. Have I gotten smarter? Nope. My world has gotten dumber and I look pretty damn good saying water is wet.
Gell-Mann: “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have been surrounded by midgets.” – Also ascribed to Feynman and Sidney Coleman.
Some people grow, others do not.
NASA can’t put a chimp in orbit, American business can’t compete, unemployed can’t find jobs, police can’t keep us safe, workers can’t afford gas, and our school system can’t teach.
But by God we’ll make DAMN sure turtles have their tunnels, illegals have their tax deductions, welfare queens have their welfare checks, homosexuals have their marriages, women have their abortions, and citizens have to be respectful of the worst president in American history!
They call this progress!
Kind of reminds me of someone polishing door knobs on the Titanic. “At least we’ll go down looking smart”.
I can’t believe they’d give this boneheaded teacher time off with pay. Isn’t that a vacation?
Excellent! May I steal that post for my email signature? With your name as author, of course…
Can you shrink that into a bumper sticker?
PLEASE do not refer to Libtards as “intellectuals” as it falsely attributes intelligence to their idiotic theories and postulates. Even referring to them as “theorists”, which is somewhat more accurate, gives them too much false legitimacy as thinkers of deep thoughts, which they usually anything but.
Maybe refer to those who cook and spew the Lib stew of cartoonish, half-baked theories as “Theoretical Pornographers” or maybe “Cesspoolitical Sewage of the Left”. “Theoretical Pornographers” does seem to hold a certain je ne sais quoi.
Well they are “intellectuals” if only the sense that that is what their occupation is. A bad dentist is still a member of the proffesion even if he is a lousy one.
Join teachers union, push left/liberalism, get paid… only you can stop that America!
I’m going to get hanged over this but…
First, the teacher needs to be given the opportunity to change. I’m not saying she’s a bad teacher and I’m not saying she’s a good teacher. In fact, I lean towards the “bad”. However, a real conservative approach to this is to allow the teacher back in the classroom after having conversations with higher-ups about what is expected and accepted behavior for a teacher of young minds. If, during the meetings, she’s obstinate and unbending, perhaps a firing is in order.
No doubt the hotline to the NAACP and Holder and Rangel and Jackson and Sharpton and Waters are all sliding down the black-poles to the black-cave, getting in the black-mobile to NC to save the say for Ms hyphenated last name, hyphenated-American. I’m sure she’s as steeped in leftist dogma as can be.
But, fairness dictates that she be corrected, allowed to show improvement and a change in attitude. If not, and she does it again, then termination is the answer.
Sadly, this feature of leftism is probably all over the country. The cancer is malignant and infects the minds of youth BUT…there are kids today, like the brilliant young man who was the victim here who won’t stand for it. It is because of kids like him that I still have some amount of hope for our future. When I’m really old and looking in the doctor’s eyes, I’d like to think it’s someone like this young man who will be the recipient of that gaze, not some functionary of obamacare.
If she didn’t already know that her actions were out of line, she didn’t belong in the classroom in the first place.
While we’re at it, I hope someone’s already told her that she’s not supposed to hijack cars.
That’s really funny.
I like your idea but you forget one thing – leftists actually think they are right on such issues and are unlikely to understand corrective instruction. Correcting her behavior would be like correcting an instinct in an animal.
You gotta remember – stupid people don’t know they’re stupid.
I categorically agree with you both without question. My position is based on the premise of arguing racism or some other “unfairness” perceived by the left-o-nauts.
Yes, she should already know that open discussion means just that with the teacher being the arbiter of keeping the room behaved and the discussion balanced and offering equal time for differing opinions. The fact that she does not is indemnifying enough alone.
Yes, it is completely doubtful that she would understand or even listen to reason or well-presented logical arguments as to why what she did was wrong. On that basis, I agree with letting her go from the classroom and let her find her own way. No doubt there are plenty of other bastions of national socialism available. Perhaps her anger can be put to use in say, community organizing.
My original stipulation was founded on the premise that leftists want nothing more than to immediately eradicate the world of people who don’t see things as they do. In that sense, I feel the urge to retaliate in kind. However, the right-wing is the enclave of open-mindedness and fair application of opportunity, not fair application of outcome as on the left.
Though I doubt the teacher in question would change her position on anything and indeed, I’m not asking her to, I would only hope that she would come to fully understand what compromise, fair, equal and level actually mean. If I were her superintendent, I would ask her a series of questions that involved hypotheticals. Not hard to do, really.
“Ms Neely, if two students were having an argument, do you think it’s appropriate for the teacher in the classroom to take sides? Why or why not?”
Now, the answer would involve some requirements from me. The first thing I would wait to hear is, “Well that depends”. Then I would hope to hear a reasonable presentation of possibilities of whether the students were on-topic related to the class discussion, whether it had become an ad-hominem fest or if they were just nattering about something totally unrelated. Or, if the argument was in the hall, I’d find out what the argument was about and decide whether it was appropriate or if it should be discussed off-campus or if campus security needed to get involved (teachers are no longer allowed to dole out discipline).
In any case, a teacher, almost more than anyone else, has to be very keenly aware of what’s important and what’s not. What’s relevant and what’s not and be able to steer the students into a path of clear and critical thinking.
It goes without saying that Ms Neely is not a master of this methodology. But some time ago, getting a teaching certificate became a way for people to get on the public payroll and keep a job while not having to actually do much. The teachers I had in grade, junior high and high school worked for their meager earnings in preparation and execution of their craft. I left public school in 1979. The left had just started to infiltrate heavily then in my area of the country.
I guess my point with Ms Neely is to terminate her with a complete explanation as to why and what was expected of her. There should be a path for restitution if she really loves teaching. There have been times when a teacher’s own passion gets muddled with their ability to do a good job. Not making excuses for her but they do this day in and day out. I’m not one to believe that national socialists are able or willing to change but the opportunity to do so should be offered. If the teacher wants to make a deep and heartfelt apology, followed up with demonstrated sincerity, then they should be allowed to do so.
The right is not the absolute giver of all things. The right acknowledges human weakness and frailty and the fact that we are all flawed. Forgiveness is one of the hardest things to offer and when given sincerely and accepted, it is then up to the forgiven to “go and sin no more” is it not? If repeatedly abused, then just “go” and be done with it.
To categorically dismiss is being just like the left. She has her own ideas. They were improperly administered in the classroom. A tenured teacher should and must know better. I recall my teachers avoided politics, religion and of course, sex with absolute discipline. Sometimes they goofed but it was never more than cause for a raised eyebrow among us students and cause for a giggle. Otherwise, we never heard a word about any of that from a teacher.
In fact, I never knew WHO my teachers voted for or liked in any election. Truly. Even in social studies when our assignments were about the democratic process, we were involved in the process of it but not the issues. The teachers would not discuss the issues. They would let the students discuss them while keeping the class in order. Nothing more.
Neely overstepped her bounds, clearly. But if ever there was an opportunity to show the magnificence of the right, this would be it. I would have my doubts but…one must try. Otherwise we’re no better than they are.
You’re correct. I will donate 1,000 quatloo’s to send her to “Devil’s Tower Devil’s Advocate Re-Education Camp” in Wyoming.
Okay, okay….”uncle” (ow)
This is an entirely reasonable and appropriate response, doing great credit to the chatacter and prudence of the proposer. It is the way things should be in a mature, solid, stable Republic in great and ruddy health, one that should be able to take the little things in stride due to the great reserves of strength it has.
And when we get back to that condition, this is what we should do. Until then, scorched earth until certain people get the idea that two can play the game.
Teachers like this woman are not salvageable. She doesn’t deserve her teaching credentials and the fact that she even has them is in itself an indictment of our education system. She is obviously the product of an indoctrination mill, or what used to be worthy of the label “higher education”. She’s unfit to teach and only has a job because her profession has been hijacked by unions and propped up and protected by liberal politicians.
BRAVO!
The real tragedy that this whole episode illustrates so well is that millions of kids in America are being cheated out of a good education and will suffer the rest of their lives because of it.
The “bad” teacher goes on year after year, protected by the union, misinforming her students and doing a lousy job of teaching. Most of the kids just show up, take the tests, get their grades and move on. Then they graduate one day without the knowledge and skills they need to compete and are totally unprepared for any challenging careers that pay well. Therefore they have to settle for whatever jobs they can get, earn less income over their lifetime and often never reach their full potential. They don’t get a do-over. Once the year is over, it’s over, and if you didn’t learn anything, it’s just too bad.
This is the most egregious form of child abuse I can think of and it’s all driven by unions and liberal politics. Teaching is one hell of a responsibility and no place for mediocrity. But our nationwide test results over the past few decades are an indication of where the real priorities lie.
Unlike most, probably all, of you, I have some experience dealing with misbehaving public employees, including those who can’t tell the difference between their personal beliefs and the requirements of their jobs. As a general matter, public employees behave the way public managers expect or allow them to behave. Even a white tenured teacher will rarely see a supervisor in his/her classroom and evaluations are at best perfunctory; if you established that you “fit in” in the faculty lounge as a teachers’ aide, substitute, untenured teacher and had tenure conferred, you’re a member of the group and pretty much beyond reproach; only a complaint from the right sort of person will get you in any trouble, say a prominent black minister, poverty pimp, Democrat politician. If you’re a black tenured teacher, nothing can get you in trouble as a single incident that doesn’t involve violence in the classroom.
There isn’t a public employer in the World that would be able to fire this employee over this single incident if she has a clean record, and since she’s a black teacher, she almost certainly has a clean record. Black supervisors wouldn’t discipline on principle, white supervisors who might be so inclined wouldn’t dare. And before somebody gets all pumped up about how a private employer would fire her, yeah, they might, but when the poverty pimps showed up singing songs and carrying signs and the ACLU showed up for the wrongful discharge suit, and the EEOC showed up with the discrimination complaint, they’d damned well wish they hadn’t fired her. Likewise, even a white teacher similarly situated would not stay fired if she/he decided to and had the resources to sue.
The right thing is that this employee would be called in, given the opportunity to relate why she did what she did and after consideration of her statements and demeanor a decision is made on what if any discipline is warranted. If she does indeed have a clean record, probably the most you could sustain is some sort of written reprimand in her record and a written admonition to refrain from such conduct in the future and a warning that further incidents will lead to further and more severe discipline. From there she either straightens up or you keep building the case. Contrary to the myth, you can fire a permanent status public employee, even a tenured teacher. The reason they so rarely get fired is feckless or complicit management.
YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID.
Actually it’s not this teacher that scares me. She is obviously incompetent to such a degree that her students are able to tell. What really scares me are the teachers who are incompetent and teaching liberal propaganda, that aren’t as easily found out. Most teachers I had while growing up were much more subtle with the propaganda, to the degree that I didn’t know that it was propaganda until I was much older.
Those are the ones we need to fear and deal with. This woman is not the real problem; she’s just a symptom of something much worse.
Most people would discard the teacher’s assertion that “he could be jailed for speaking ill of Obama.” As a parent, I would take the teachers comments as a legitimate threat to my child. Most school districts of any size now have commissioned police departments that have the authority to detain and arrest “unruly students”. If you’ve been following recent articles regarding the “criminalization of everything”, there has been a significant movement by schools to call in the police to arrest students at the drop of a hat. The vast majority of incidences that make it to the evening news generally involve abuse of power by teachers/administrators.
I would also advise the parent to have retained counsel for his student. With the support of the teacher’s union, the teacher has the ability to hold the student liable for making an illegal recording.
On a personal note – The young man who took this stand should be commended for standing his ground and fighting for what is right.
Truly, all the criticism of teachers’ unions and teachers is not keeping our children safe. This is more than a political matter, but because it was a political argument, perhaps it will stay in the news awhile, as the stories about little ones being slapped with sexual harassment, or worse, charges don’t.
Unbelievable that this teacher would be suspended “with pay”! She needs to be “fired”. This is a perfect example of whats wrong with our country!
With pay = vacation in my book.
This is far from the first account I’ve seen of this topic. What I have NOT seen is anyone pointing out so much as ONE incidence of someone being “arrested” for “saying bad things about Bush”.
There were MYRIAD “bad” things said “about Bush”, but the only “consequences” I recall are accolades.
It takes no GENIUS to anticipate that the VERY NEXT thing that will happen in that school is for the Administration and Teachers to ban cell phones from the classroom. Here’s the wording and logic they will use: “We can’t have these trouble-makers first provoking then secretly recording our hard-working teachers, taking their words out of context and mis-representing and distorting the excellent work of these dedicated and self-sacrificing nurturers.”
What a bunch of horse manure! Teachers these days may not be making a lot of money, but as long as they parrot the Leftist Line, they are not held to ANY STANDARD OF ACCOUNTABILITY WHATSOEVER. Their Union protects them from any complaints or even documented proof of malfeasance, bullying, absenteeism, intellectual and academic dishonesty and incompetence.
Why anyone would want to submit their children to a standard U.S. public school anymore is a mystery.
I’m still trying to figure out why anybody thinks it’s okay for kids to have cellphones in class.
Yes, it worked out well in this particular instance, because an incompetent (at best) teacher has been busted. (Sort of.)
But that’s a poor reason for allowing such nonsense.
Cell phones are needed to gather evidence of criminal proceedings in classrooms, and to call for help in emergencies. Until we have an alternative (such as armed and honest citizens in class rooms) having a cell phone is a prudent measure.
Agreed. Let all the students record the abuse, lies, indoctrination and undisciplined atmosphere in schools where teachers are not held accountable. Superintendents and principles had better sit up and take notice. America is taking their schools BACK! We are watching you!
When I was in school we were encouraged to record our lessons!!
part of what the teacher said may prove to be true and accurate…
that criticizing Barack Obama is treated as a crime…After all, his PC enforcers at the DOJ are going after Joe Arpaio much the same way they did Gibson Guitars.
In the media and in academia….only conservatives can be targets of criticism…and only liberals can level that criticism…while it may yet be an “unwritten” rule…that too can be tested….ever hear of the “fairness doctrine”?
Disagreeing with Obama could be construed as a hate crime…and on MSNBC…it already is.
Early in our Republic, during the John Adams administration, the Aliens and Sedition Act was passed, and criticizing the President was a crime. Several journalists went to jail as a result. The Act was lifted a few years later. Obamabots would gladly bring back a similar provision.
Having read many articles on this incident, I have to say, the student impressed me with the way he handled the discussion. Apparently, all is not lost.
Truly. Way to find the pony under the manure pile, Billy.
What is frightening, is both the arrogance and intimidation coming from “professional” Neely.The parents of this young man, should be very proud.
His calm demeanor and knowledge of the constitution, made Neely look like the screaming, out of control fool,that she is. She appears to be as thin skinned to criticism as her “dear leader.”
What if she berated another student who did not have the self assurance and intelligence of this student?
Fire her: she has no legitimacy as an educator or a mentor.
Maybe the new black panther party has a job opening!
5. TomsRight
This is far from the first account I’ve seen of this topic. What I have NOT seen is anyone pointing out so much as ONE incidence of someone being “arrested” for “saying bad things about Bush”.
The ignorant clown parading as a teacher should be forced to read about death threats against Bush at protests and also portrayals of Bush as Hitler. After reading about them, the ignorant clown parading as a teacher should be forced to make a public presentation about what she found.
I like the way you think! Give her the choice of being fired or making the presentation to the entire school in the gym/auditorium. I bet she chooses termination.
Yes and write on the blackboard 1,000 times: I will not bully my students.
until we stop the indoctrination in our schools…it doesn’t matter who wins any election. We will be doomed, unless this is stopped.
This is the TRUE crises facing our country: who is raising and teaching the kids/college students..aka..our future and new voters!!
Unfortunately not enough parents see it or care
The most revealing thing about the teacher’s comments, especially the outsized “respect” she has for Obama is this: it is another example of the new “liberal/left” notion that a Presidential election is an actual war, and the winner is a conqueror who literally owns the State, lock, stock, and barrel. Obama himself, and his close confidants, have made numerous remarks revealing that dangerous and wrong-headed attitude.
1. “Now it’s Obama’s turn to rule” Valerie Jarret
2. “The troops are fighting on My Behalf” Obama
3. “He considers America’s nuclear arsenal to be his” American diplomat on Obama’s behalf during START negotiations
4. Tom Hanks accusing detractors of Obama and big government programs of being un-American, as if the Stae was the Nation itself.
5. Fighting the Lybia “kinetic military action” without ever getting Congressional approval (the military is his own private preserve, apparently).
6. “Fundamentally transforming America,” Obama. It’s not his to transform. He’s only supposed to be running the executive branch of the federal government.
“Any teacher with basic reading comprehension…”
therein lies the problem
How’s that affirmative action working out in education? You wonder why the country is circling the drain? The woman cannot even speak proper English, but I am sure she has a PHD in Ebonics.
Oh no she di-in’t.
A hyphenated person with a hyphenated name with a hyphenated AA “education” explains it all.
Possibly with a degree in AA studies.
My beloved NC is really making the headlines lately and not all of it good.
Guess I could look at it another way. Liberals are showing their true colors and it’s going to turn off a lot of people/voters.
Whatever it takes to get rid of Obama.
Glad to see that some parents are making their kids aware of this liberal cancer in our classrooms — and preparing them to battle it. We’ve been asleep too long, going to work, taking care of our families, relying on public “educators” to teach our kids. Don’t let them get away with indoctrination.
There’s an even bigger point, since everybody already knows that obama sychophants will punish anybody who criticizes their hero.
The bigger story is that my playmates on a playground without adult supervision a few decades ago were better able to maintain order and give all of the kids opportunities to participate than that woman is in the controlled environment of her classroom in 2012.
And people like her are TEACHING our kids?
I’m really out of touch, because I found that to be the most stunning thing about this incident.
I should have said 10 year-old playmates.
Even if she loses her job she’ll easily get one in NYC, Chicago, L.A. etc. and at probably twice the pay. I had a friend that taught briefly in NYC and the stories were stunning. Funtionally illiterate teachers, many with Master’s degree’s and higher, game the system for huge pay and benefits, while providing what is basically custodial day care. Local colleges churn out these characters at an astonishing rate with the thumb-on-the-scale academic standards. The Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal is a prime example of this wildfire problem. It’s a huge story, but gatekeeper media killed it. Many of the hundreds fired were unrepentant and quickly found positions in “friendlier” locales. Shame, the taxpayer has to doubly bear the brunt of a seriously broken system.
this situation….on a smaller scale…..is Rosa Parks. Before you laugh…read on….
Rosa Parks challenged the status quo…while we look upon her experience in the monumental and transitional terms it became….at the time, it was a personal situational conflict, but one captured in timelessness.
This young man is no less challenging the status quo…and the conflict was, quite frankly, more animated than that which Rosa Parks experienced. No….I am not valuing these two events on equal terms. I am exposing an ironic reality. Sixty years later, we have come full circle…and the “nigger” is the white conservative male…..useless, last on everyone’s priority list…and without power and public support. Again…this kid is a microcosm… but all of the elements of history repeating itself are present.
You’ve just described the evolution of the perceptual trap that is political correctness and how an genuinely anti-racist party became a genuinely racist one.
Please, no Byrd comments.
So where were conservatives when liberals were taking over the classrooms? And the media? And a lot of other things?
Sorry, but your whining now about what’s wrong (however correct) is too late in the day. The damage has been done.
So, because things are bad now, everyone should just shut up? How about setting an example for the rest of us to follow?
I agree that people whining now after letting the lefties take over academia is too little too late. When Liberals and lefties were taking over the schools and colleges, We should have been outspoken and stopped it then. Now we have no control over the situation as we have no way to take corrective action except by;
1. Suing the school districts.
2. removing our kids from the schools and doing home schooling.
Where were conservatives? When in school I made a handful of spitwads when the day after Kent State shooting, the teacher asserted that violence was not necessary. After hiting him with a few spit wads, he realized that violence was necessary.
For my kids: Homeschooling.
Actually, in this teacher’s ignorance of many things, she stumbled upon a truth, but mangled it in doing so. She insisted that the president is different than a presidential candidate. The student countered that they are both mere men. In a sense they were both right. The presidency is due respect, although any particular president may not be due any respect. Obama only as the holder of the office is due some respect. Obama, as a person, may be due no respect.
The king and the crown are two different things. The king and the king’s sovereignty are two different things. The king is a person, and thus mortal. Sovereignty is corporate, and thus perpetual.
The greatest problem of governing, whether a country or a classroom, occurs when the ruler confuses or conflates his or her person with his or her office.
way too fine of a distinction.
obama deserves zero respect, despite the amazaing fact that he somehow gained the office of presidency.
What he deserves is scorn and impeachment.
Dixon-Neely is (cough) “punished” by giving her a paid vacation.
I’m prepared to bet the rent money that a union is involved in protecting her employment at that school. And I’m also prepared to bet the following month’s rent payment that that union is very pro-Obama.
The school district’s tail is covered (after a fashion) because it can always shrug and say its hands are tied by the union contract. In the end, it won’t care one way or another.
The students are scr*wed.
North Carolina is a right-to-work state, she is not in a teacher’s union. This is bigger than a simple union issue.
Most college students will tell you that education degrees are a joke. Along with communications, education classes tend to have some of the dimmest lights on campus. Likewise, the steps necessary to become a substitute teacher are equally sad – a trained chimp could do it. I mean no disrespect to those of you who have gone through these programs, what I am trying to indicate is that there is a reason standards are so low: teaching is a thankless job that few truly want to do.
Watching/listening to this video, there was nothing in it that surprised me. My high school education was precisely like this, as were portions of my college years. She wont be fired, if only because they don’t have anyone to replace her with.
Our education standards have been falling for decades now. I would argue that a big part of it is what we expect out of our schools. Over the years, as a nation, we have come to expect EVERYONE to go to college and believe that mathematics and sciences are all one should truly care about. We expect more from our teachers and, in the process, lose interest from many of those who are truly gifted teachers. I don’t see any way to turn back this tide. High school diplomas only work when people take pride in manual labor, and there is manual labor to be done. Today we culturally frown upon manual labor and send jobs overseas. History and English fields are barely recognizable and are nowhere near the standards they once were. Our public education system can only gets worse from here.
Privatization is the only effective answer, but it is not an easy one, nor one many will feel comfortable with.
“North Carolina is a right-to-work state, she is not in a teacher’s union.”
Nothing about a state’s being RTW keeps you from joining a union; it keeps you from being compelled to join a union as a condition of employment. RTW is a concept associated only with bargaining under federal law, which only applies in the private sector. In states that don’t sanction collective bargaining by public employees, the National Education Association operates under its voluntary professional association guise, though peer pressure makes membership anything but voluntary.
Yeah, shortly after posting it I found she was indeed union. My mistake.
That said, I am surprised. I’ve worked in the education system and believe me, here in SC (another RTW), I have never once met a union teacher. My basic point was, having seen this sort of thing too many times, it is more than simply a union matter.
This guy starts flapping his tongue debating and looking at the other side of the issue and behaving like a adolescent loudmouth, and he sins twice doing it:
1) Indoctrination is a recognized and widely accepted component of education nowadays. Wasn’t always, but it is now. Deal with it.
2) Learning how to understand issues and debate them is best left to the good offices of the NEA or AFT union brother or sister; the teacher must be the authority figure in the classroom, and that means being authoritative.
If this was sarcasm then you failed. If this was serious then you failed. There’s no excuse for the behavior of this so-called “teacher.” And that’s not even addressing her false claims and apparent misunderstanding and obvious misrepresenting of the law. It’s no laughing matter because this happens a lot more than will ever be reported by the “mainstream” media.
If I had a daughter who was a teacher, she would look like this teacher. The students acted stupidly. – BHO
That’s good. Probably true too. Every vote counts.
It’s a safe bet this “teacher” will take the rest of the school year off thanks to her suspension, and be back in the classroom in September.
Hopefully the students who have her for a teacher next year will walk out on day one, march to the principle and demand a transfer to another class.
This ignorant Obama shill shouldn’t be teaching anything to children.
This teacher is a bully and an idiot and an Obozo supporter and a liberal, but then I am being redundant.
And this is what we are supposed to have educating our children and needing to pay more money to make sure that our children are well educated.
Give me Marva Collins in Chicago at $1500/year and her students go to college, have earned their self esteem, and brook no nonsense in their desire to excel and the parents know this going in and support this.
Listening to the (black) teacher ranting against the (I’ll go out on a limb here: white student) made me wonder about this whole inclusion/diversity/social justice stuff.
I’m asking here. Just how has the public classroom of the 21st century improved over the classroom of the 20th? When race (a) is allowed/excused/justified for behavior that would result generally in termination/jail/fines for race (b), does it make sense to combine a + b anymore?
For that matter, in the past boys and girls were taught in separate classrooms and/or schools…look what we have today, slutty clothing, layers of make-up, dyed hair, painted nails and loud jewelry, and that’s just the boys.
I don’t know. Toss in the English as second language groups ranging from Hispanic to Somali to Hmong to Arabic to…oh, forget it; where’s the TV remote? Time for MTV’s nighttime of howl, yowl and scowl.
It’s disgraceful, though perhaps indicative of a US education system many feel is beyond hope, that this woman is teaching SOCIAL STUDIES when she:
1. Is teaching students that American citizens are not entitled to criticize their government! What!!? She still has a job after that?
2. Implies that simply asking a question about something a sitting president wrote in his autobiography is somehow slander. (Shouldn’t social studies teachers be better versed in what actually constitutes slander?)
3. Teaches historically and verifiable false information. In this case, she asserts that people were arrested for simply criticizing George Bush when he was president without giving any examples or proof, or, as far as can be told, any basis in reality.
Shouldn’t particularly social studies teachers put forth in the classroom the constitutional rights we have in the US to freedom of speech rather than telling students they don’t have that right? Shouldn’t teachers know what they’re talking about and have a factual basis for what they teach? Is it really OK for teachers to pick sides by criticizing one candidate but quashing the same criticism of another? HOW on earth was this woman suspended WITH pay and not fired?! I’m saddened but not surprised any more.
This affirmative-action wonder is a thug and manifest cretin;in short she has perfect qualificatios for teaching in governmebnt schools.
Why don’t we take all the bone-head teachers and give them all the bone-head students? The bone-head teachers can rant all day while the bone-head students sleep.
The talented and capable teachers and students can get about the business of education.
Problem solved.
Until the bone-heads step into a voting booth.
Let’s split the country in half. All the white privileged, New Jim Crow, women-hating, supremacist racists can have one half, and use the resources to build spaceships to escape. It’s hard to sneak across a vacuum in crowded craft made of cardboard. No one will follow. Peace, law and order will return. Sure, we’ll have our criminals, but we won’t elect them as President. Rather, we’ll imprison them, and do it based on what they do, not by what they look like.
I agree lets have people register as to their political bent.
You tax your followers at your rate we tax ours.
We get the education system are children deserve, you get yours.
We get the military, police and fire because we know you hate the police and shoot are firemen attempting to put out the fires.
You get your utopia as long as you can make it can last, we get AMERICA back.
Cardboard spaceship…hmmm…might work; but I prefer a tin foil hat for protection from the consequences of 50 years of leftist/liberal policies now dripping onto our heads.
Predicted to become a steady downpour when the money is gone, the good will of American taxpayers is gone, millions more jobs -is- gone, G-d is gone. But, I really really believe, based on current events, since we’re dealing with such paragons of tolerance an’ all, that the bereft beneficiaries of socialism will adapt rather well to these changes. After all, they have proven themselves in the past to stoically accept realities and move on with life.
Why, I’ll just bet there’ll be another Woodstock, peace and love all across the land! Beads, bongs, booze, rock and roll, free love under ever tree! We’re Free! Free! Free! The line starts *here* for penicillin shots and abortions.
Well, maybe everything won’t be so ‘free.’
I’ll be at home with a bottle of aspirin and TV clicker if you’d care to join me. I get couch.
This good little leftist foot soldier will be protected by the teachers union/school district and will be back in the classroom next year. I expect the Dept of Education to try to implement a ban on recording devices/smartphones in classrooms in the near future.
OK, the truth is good enough; if you’re going to argue this stuff, you need to be informed.
You can thank the USSC and the 5th and 14th Amendments for the “paid vacation” for this teacher, or any other public employee similarly situated. It isn’t even a union contract thing, though some union contracts incorporate and enhance it. In a graphic example of how bad cases make bad law, the USSC in Loudermill v. Cleveland Board determined that once a public employee passed his/her probationary period and was deemed permanent, that permanent status was a property of which the employee could not be deprived without due process, see, the 5th and 14th Amendments. Now, due process is whatever process is due, it isn’t a substantive right, but at its Constitutional minimum, the employee accused of wrongdoing must be informed of the allegation in some reasonable detail, given an opportunity to respond with any obviating or mitigating facts, and those “obviating or mitigating” facts must be considered before any disciplinary decision is made. In the unionized workforce, the employee is also entitled to a union representative in any meeting with management that the employee reasonably believes might result in discipline.
So, if you’re a public manager and you turn on your car radio on the way to work and learn that one of your employees is the lead story, you get to work, call the employee in, and send them home. That is the suspension with pay referred to herein. You tell them you want to talk to them about the incident which you must describe in reasonable detail, and you must give them a reasonable time to prepare a defense, and you get to pay them until you can have that interview with them. When you call them in and they give you a line of BS, you can after consideration of their line of BS and mature reflection, you can suspend them without pay while you conduct a more detailed investigation or, if it is bad enough, you can fire them.
Done properly, the “paid vacation” isn’t an awful thing, though you can charge somebody with murder, drag them out of their house, shoot them if they resist, and throw them in jail with less “due process.” When Loudermill was first handed down, public employers all over the Country lost millions and millions in backpay awards to scumbags who hadn’t been “afforded due process,” anymore, the only ones who lose discipline or dismissal cases on process are Democrat governments who are just doing the dismissal as a charade.
What? Did she threaten to sit on somebody’s head?
“That she did not know better is among the indictments that this incident levels …”
I disagree. These so-called teachers (this one and the one from 4 yrs ago) are bigots. That they could not find the arguments to support their positions in light of US law, makes them idiots. Yes, they are African-Americans. Yes, they are prejudice. And yes they are the smartest and brightest their race has to offer.
We had an experience with a ballet instructor who in one instance, invited four and rive-year-olds to sign a thank you letter to a judge for a ruling the judge had made. We homeschool our children and were reported to family services during our time at the studio and believe that the instructor did it, although it still remains anonymous. You can read the story at http://web.me.com/freedommatters.
We could have just left the studio and let it go but we believe these petty tyrants need to be revealed and resisted so we wrote this web site. Please read and pass it on. . .
Romney, the SuperPacs and the RNC should package this into an attack ad and play it from one end of the country to the other from now to November. I played the audio for my frns in Calcutta and there was a shocked silence for a few minutes.
What has America turned into? a caricature? Can any ship’s captain turn the leviathan before it self-destructs on the iceberg?
Well done, Bryan, well done Lad.
She had it in for the student. She doesn’t know jack about the constitution. Ever heard of FREEDOM OF SPEECH teacher? Evidently not. She must have one of those Aff. Action degrees from a marxist college right out of the heart of ghetto Chicago. Maybe the student forgot to ‘Pledge allegiance to Obama’ that morning. It’s not right she gets a paid vacation and they’ll probably bring her back to POLITELY indoctrinate the kids instead of chimping out.
“Dixon-Neely would have had no Romney bullying story to bring up, if the Washington Post had not published that story that made the allegation.” Blah, blah. Let’s call a spade a spade here. Dixon-Neely does not need the Washington Post to provide her with reasons to try to silence her students from criticizing Obama. Dixon-Neely is a sycophantic member of the tribe. All she sees is black and white, and white better not say anything bad about black. She certainly does not belong in the classroom because she is incapable of treating her students equally.
The most important thing we can do is to archive this video. The time will come soon in which the issue of the day will be school vouchers and breaking the NEA stranglehold on our education system. THis video and others like it will be a strong reminder to the silent majority of what goes on in the classroom and will provide effective pushback against the NEA.
Though our story involves a private dance studio, and we wrote our web site for many reasons, one reason was to ensure that what happened to us was exposed and documented. Please read and pass on: http://web.me.com/freedommatters. It is about our experience with a ballet instructor who abused her power and while we were at the studio, we were reported to family services. We believe she did it, although it remains anonymous.
Have you ever heard the expression, “You don’t have to make a Federal case out of it?” Day one, tell ‘em to eff off and move on. The amount of time and thought you took on this astonishes me. They’d have been in my rear view mirror so long ago I would’ve completely forgotten about it. Instead you zeroed in and made a war out of nothing. If this woman’s a moron, realize there’ no cure for stupidity and be happy you’re not her.
Fail Burton,
If we were the only ones who were affected, I suppose you could make a case that I should have moved on. But in the process of bringing her to court, we discovered that she had been brought to court the prior year and in that instance, the family said that she called the police and claimed that the father was harrassing her after setting up a mutual meeting.
I didn’t start a war. We were calm and disciplined the entire time – she started the battle after I paid a lot of money for dance lessons for three daughters. I would consider her the aggressor.
And lastly, I enjoy writing and psychology and education and she was such a fascinating person, in a tragic sense. She has served as a reminder to our family of how precious freedom is and how willing other citizens are to take if from you.
Thank you for taking the time to read my web site and even if you found that I wasted my time writing it, I hope you don’t feel that you wasted your time reading it.
Colleen ,
I get it why you did what you did. I hear the same thing about federal cases.I “had” to home school my children.
After severe injuries sustained by my two, 4 and 6 year old little girls. One sustained a walnut sized bruise we thought had fractured her cheekbone the first week of school. Within three weeks of that, with that initial bruise still yellowed, she came home with another bad bruise under chin with major blood blister.
Ultimately with a week of that, her older sister, the 6 year old had complained of a fall and her arm was injured. We learned it was fractured and that she has been thrown to the ground by a boy.
The school could not guarantee their safety.
In fact after I pressed the fact that if I had sent my children to school with such severe injuries I would have had socials services at my door. What made them feel exempt.
I got them to admit at all three recesses where the injuries happened, they only had i supervisor for over a hundred young children. A lone singular teachers aid was responsible for overseeing no less then 4 classes of on average 30 + children. It was chaos. I suggested they have the actual class teachers oversee the children as they would know best who to watch more carefully and why.
I contacted everyone up to the state level about making serious changes and demanding they learn to care about the safety of the children under their watch.
Nothing. They did reimburse all medical expenses.
My children suffered painful injuries for their lack of care or caution. The law says we have to send our children to school or face penalties.
So does a parent send children to a school realizing the next time it could be
a more disturbing and final incident.
Would anyone keep their children in that environment?
So yes you need to be loud and clear when something bad happens in regards to our children and our frustration over assertions of rights over us.
Too many in our education system alone feel immune and safe from any repercussions for their stupidity or the total disregard for children under their watch. Unions need to be broken up, at the least contracts re-written.
More of the same and our children are the biggest losers. We need to see they are protected not the people running in too many instances cattle prod schools. We have no redress for their bad actors and actions. It is way past the time to change the rules in the child’s favor.
Break up the schools into learning centers, Children there to learn and advance get to learn in a safe and inviting environment. All the bullies and other cretins moved to military style schools. They need discipline first and foremost.They need to respect others and human life in general, as much if not more then the three R’s.
Exactly Fail. The words that sprang to my mind after reading far too much of the mind numbing Blog by Colleen were “Pedantic, Pretentious,Long winded, Pot, Kettle and Black”
Please forgive my pedantics but “pragmatist” means someone who tests theories or beliefs in terms of the success of its practical application.
In the last year, this dance instructor had to close her studio, was hired and then asked to leave soon after the director learned of my web site (I’m not sure if it was because of my web site but the two happened in sequence), and now only has a handful of families with whom she can harrass and with no stable location. Those I know who attend her studio and express discomfort with her, I send to my web site so they can be aware of her history.
Swearing at her and leaving as Fail Burton has suggested would probably not have had such pragmatic results. And if we are concerned about instructors like the ones in this article, I think a more intellectually robust response is warranted. If it is pretentious of me to say so, so be it.
Thank you for taking the time to read my web site.
The sad truth is that this teacher is the rule not the exception. How she was caught by a video will only make other teachers more surreptitious about punishing conservative students, it sadly will not prevent this type of abuse and bullying. Conservatives believe in individualism and can tolerate diversity of opinion, progressives OTOH are group ‘thinkers’. Everybody in the group MUST think the same way, by force if necessary. They enforce it everywhere any modicum of authority is given from the political office to the news office to the courtroom to the classroom.
The beauty of group think is that it does not require a conscience.
This teacher and others like her need to be fired. They weren’t hired to brainwash children to follow their political aims but to teach. There are enough college professors that will attempt to do the same when the children grow up.
A boll weevil in the indoctrination farm?
The small c communists said they would come at us through are youth, they just didn’t expect the youth to put up any resistance.
Schoolteachers are the sharecroppers on the indoctrination farms. They don’t own the narrative, but they sew the message.
This “teacher” (bumbling fool lackey) made an epic mistake. She should have done her damage to the student in silence. Give him an F. Punish him by fraudulent means. Suggest that he wasn’t “prepared” for class discussion.
Humiliate him and get the class to peer pressure him.
Now THAT would be the “rules for radicals” way.
And never, never, ever…get caught.
She should have to write on the blackboard 100 times, “Deliver the message, deliver the inversion narrative, hide the radicalism, hide the treason…deliver the message, deliver the inversion narrative, hide the radicalism, hide the treason…after her “paid leave and no punishment” coffee break is over.
There’s a teachable moment here….the school is in on it.
I’m by no means a proper English Nazi.
However, I listened ~ 2 minutes of the recent Ms. Dixon-Neely exchange.. HOW is this woman ‘educating’ anyone? Honestly?
As for her receiving pay with her vacation, err, ‘suspension’ – Ms. Dixon-Neely’s obviously an Illiberal, Black and female.. the trifecta.
The same can be said of DoJ’s Gyamfi. Slandering ALL of Mississippi AND perjured herself TWICE late last year and dealt NO punishment whatsoever in each incident.
Another DoJ EEO hire- Perez recently THREATENED to stop Federal funds altogether to Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. In essence saying illegal 2rd Worlders and other criminals in said county are MORE IMPORTANT than ALL of Maricopa County’s citizenry.
That’s some jackboot on the throat type of, ‘justice’. Scarrrry stuff.
I’d meant 3rd World, obviously.
As a public middle school teacher, I am beyond fortunate to work with a faculty that is in the majority conservative, including administrators. One hard rule of fact is to NOT engage in personal opinions on politics within the classroom. One, middle schoolers are just not capable of concret analytical thought processes at this point. Secondly, it is not the forum for personal viewpoints. As a teacher I am appalled at the lack of control in her classroom. Total anarchy from the video. That, plus her poor command of the English language, gives one pause as to how she made it out of a teaching program. But then I realize she is a minority and they will always get preferential treatment in school jobs. I hope the parents continue to keep this at the forefront. More importantly, I hope this “teacher” will just quietly fade away in embarrassment.
Let’s take a lesson from the Liberals and PLAY THE RACE CARD! WHY is everyone tippy-towing around the fact that the teacher is BLACK and the student is WHITE? WHY IS THIS NOT RACIST AND BULLYING?
Colleen Truax
Read your blog and wow! Just wow. I don’t even know how to comment at this moment.
Alluded to in some of the responses, when will race become an issue in this? The teacher is African American. The board spokeswoman who announced suspension with pay is African American. At least one student is White. The race card is about to flash. When 96% of the African American electorate votes for Obama in 2008, when NAACP backs Obama position on gay marriage, while conservative Black pastors kowtow for the most part, is there any doubt that the first African American (if not Kenyan African) president has not truly promoted progress for race relations. He uses Bill Clinton as a spokesman promotin his “warrior in chief” role, 10 month delayed decision to take out Osma (Clinton had an 8 year delay to fight growing jihadi terrorism) and as a role model to get beyond politics and deal with persons; both are imperfect role models for any Americans, particularly in high school. First Amendment rights for this student were violated which paralles first Amendment right violations for the Catholic Church and others associated to Obamacare. Wake Up Folks!
“…sound and fury…” And yet you still declared the teacher as an African-American. I guess you are just trying to be PC while being critical of the teacher just to reassure anyone you are not racist.
She is a POS.
How did we get here?? The teacher is black and the student is white. 98% of blacks voted for the first half-black president based on his race only. Shall I go on?
Because for 60 years white Americans have been forced to deny their heritage, race and culture. We have been threatened with a scarlet letter if we even thought anything good about being a white American. Why you would be labled a racist for being proud of being white. How dare you. We have been assaulted for being white. We have been repeatedly told we are the cause of everything wrong with blacks, and really, the world.
And we stood by and took it. Never once did we fight back either figuratively or literally. Our leaders have been threatened and then summarily kow-towed into never defending white Americans or America.
We willingly acquiesed to the force of white progs and their black muscle to never defend our race and culture. We stood by and accepted it; “…thank you sir can I have another.” That’s how we got here.
I am sick of it. But until white Americans who love their nation, race, culture and traditions fight back, it will only get worse.
You sir are so correct. If you think about it when affirmative action went into effect to allegedly level and balance the field. It too soon became apparent that standards had to be made lower, lower, and lower and now we are at near bottom.
Yet are schools now cannot get a minority of youth youth to pass on basic economic skills. writing checks or counting change back from a dollar.
We can’t compete because we have made our labor market, and college degrees third world rate.
Time to gut the Fed of all departments that are pawns. DOE has to be on the top of that list.
It used to be that the smartest women became teachers and nurses because those were the only professions open to smart women. Then the smart women became doctors, lawyers, and corporate executives leaving those fields to the least smart/competent. One need only glance at the achievement levels of students these days to see they are increasingly failing because those teaching know less than the kids.
Suspended with pay? A union member’s wet dream!
She will probably spend her vacation campaigning for Obama.
I guess long hair is the style in North Carolina High Schools but his hair was more than long. I was disappointed that he turns out to look like such a slob and with few words to say. I guess you can’t judge a book…..” This teacher, who may have gotten where she is due to quotas, is almost as bad as the one who used a classroom waste basket as a toilet IN FRONt of the class in Durham a few years ago. Of course, she was only a substitute teacher.
If the vote, as currently projected, is pro Romney, she may have to eat her words and join the food lines in North Carolina.
Donna the discussion is supposed to be about a misinformed half educated Left Wing Ideological Teacher trying to shout down a far better informed pupil. Ad Hominem attacks on the length of the students hair are ILLOGICAL.
This is just an example of the deep rooted problem we have, Academia has long been infiltrated by the Loony Left. They like Muslims play the long game and they saw the writing on the wall when Communism was exposed as the threat to Civilization that it was. So they decided the best form of attack was subliminal i.e. to grab our kids while they were young and had brains full of malleable mush and fill them with Left Wing PROPAGANDA. All over the Western world schools , Colleges and Universities are filled almost EXCLUSIVELY with Left Wing radical propagandists posing as Teachers and Professors and brainwashing future generations. It has been that way for so long in Europe that ALL Politicians, no matter what they call themselves, are LEFT WINGERS. For example the UK does not have ONE major political Party that is NOT Left Wing. They are merely different shades of RED and the rest of Europe is he same. The US is well down this slippery slope the Democrats are long gone and the GOP with their myriad of RINO’s are not far behind.
The solution, if the Political will is there, is a radical overhaul of Academia only then will our children escape INDOCTRINATION.
Segregation Now! Segregation Forever! Just Say No to Tolerance!
“No to tolerance” ?
I say “Yes” to discerning when good intentions have devolved into co-dependency; enabling and encouraging generational dysfunction. “Yes” to freedom to speak truth, even when it means sacred PC cows get gored.
Absolutely! Segregation of idiocy from the teaching of students now and forever! Just say no to tolerance of inane, damaging, and even evil ideas masquerading as ‘liberal’, ‘progressive’, and ‘tolerant’.
I was a Social Studies teacher in North Carolina (Wilmington) for 16 years. My reaction to this incident is here, at my blog:
http://anotherangle10.blogspot.com/2012/05/nc-teacher-tells-student-he-can-be.html
One thing that is not being mentioned is that this kid was endangering his grade by challenging his teacher. It is _very_ common, both in high school and college, for conservative kids to keep their opinions to themselves because they know what it will cost them, in terms of their GPA.
“A mind is a terrrible thing to waste.” This was the grammatically ambiguous slogan of the United Negro College Fund which they ran for years on television. The first time I heard it I was with my dad, who pointed out that he thought what they meant to say was that “it is a terrible thing to waste a mind”, or that, “to waste a mind is a terrible thing”, but that what they somewhat ambiguously actually said in their ad was, “that a mind is a terrible thing…to waste.” The “educators” of the past century behaved as though the mind is a terrible thing. And they have wasted it for generations.
As a North Carolinian and as an American, Tanya-Dixon Neely’s behavior disgusts me.
*Tanya Dixon-Neely