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Originally posted by truthseeker1984
I'm going to give a */facepalm* for those of us in the education system that don't tell our kids how to think.
I'm a teacher, and I think that teacher needs to get their head checked. Pretty absurd, if you ask me.
-TS
Originally posted by OmegaLogos
As for the teacher ... :shk: Go teach MATHS as its HARD for students to argue against numbers!
As for the student ... But don't get too cocky as timing and placement DO CURB ones right to free speech and school is not a free for all zone.
Originally posted by PurpleChiten
.... and this is coming from an educator AND a Democrat. People like that are one of the biggest problems education is facing
Originally posted by alphabetaone
Originally posted by PurpleChiten
.... and this is coming from an educator AND a Democrat. People like that are one of the biggest problems education is facing
Agreed, and I'm going to further this point by simply saying it would have been EASILY brought under control if the (and I use this term very VERY liberally, no pun intended) "teacher" would have had the cognizance to simply ask the right question....that being "Are you talking about Obama the PRESIDENT or are you talking about Obama the CANDIDATE?"
For the students to have been able to place both men, as they proclaimed, on a level playing field, then they would both have had to be the candidates. In fact, were I one of the students, thats precisely what my argument would have been: "Im not talking about Obama the President, but the candidate"
And, one last point, that they ALL overlooked, is that they ALL disrespected the position by referring to him as "Obama", he is, in fact, "PRESIDENT Obama"....any other nomenclature is disrespectful.
Originally posted by PurpleChiten
I normally don't, but this time I'm going to... If we look at the very, very obvious pink elephant in the room (no pun intended ), there was definitely some racism involved. Reverse racism is still racism and that's what I gathered from the audio. ... just want to clarify again that I am a liberal, a democrat, an educator and probably the LEAST racist person I've ever met and I've been all over the east coast in big cities and small towns, so I'm not being racist in pointing out she was clearly a black lady from her voice alone and that most likely had some impact on what she was doing. All that aside even, she's a lousy, lousy teacher with a poor excuse for a classrom.
Originally posted by alphabetaone
Originally posted by PurpleChiten
I normally don't, but this time I'm going to... If we look at the very, very obvious pink elephant in the room (no pun intended ), there was definitely some racism involved. Reverse racism is still racism and that's what I gathered from the audio. ... just want to clarify again that I am a liberal, a democrat, an educator and probably the LEAST racist person I've ever met and I've been all over the east coast in big cities and small towns, so I'm not being racist in pointing out she was clearly a black lady from her voice alone and that most likely had some impact on what she was doing. All that aside even, she's a lousy, lousy teacher with a poor excuse for a classrom.
Quite frankly, I think there was a lot more than reverse racism going on here.
I think there is a comedy of errors and a cavalcade of ignorance so deep it's mind boggling that this woman slipped by the governing boards.
- Inability to maintain control
- Reverse racism (albeit it could be conjecture on our parts)
- Herself disrespecting the position of POTUS
- Sounding completely unprofessional
- Inability to debate without "shouting over" others thinking her point is the only VALID point
- Far too uneducated highlighted by her stuttering and inability to communicate effectively
- Her distortion of facts
- Her unwielding personality (is that the way to teach these days?!)
Originally posted by alphabetaone
reply to post by SheopleNation
My comment is more with respect to the video (actually really audio) if you listened to it in it's entirety. The "teacher" said "STOP STOP STOP!I will NOT have you disrespecting Obama here!" ... But my point was that by her not referring to him as PRESIDENT Obama or by having the understanding that a 14 or 15 year old student may not have had the complete understanding of why she the teacher tried to separate in HER own mind the difference between "them both being men" as one is the POTUS, that she was as equally guilty of doing what SHE was accusing her students of and she should have been able to bring the class under control by guiding them gently in the proper direction.
Originally posted by SheopleNation
Originally posted by alphabetaone
reply to post by SheopleNation
My comment is more with respect to the video (actually really audio) if you listened to it in it's entirety. The "teacher" said "STOP STOP STOP!I will NOT have you disrespecting Obama here!" ... But my point was that by her not referring to him as PRESIDENT Obama or by having the understanding that a 14 or 15 year old student may not have had the complete understanding of why she the teacher tried to separate in HER own mind the difference between "them both being men" as one is the POTUS, that she was as equally guilty of doing what SHE was accusing her students of and she should have been able to bring the class under control by guiding them gently in the proper direction.
Understood. Well that would have been nice to see instead of this result. Her "guiding them gently into the proper driection" that is. If she was a good Teacher, she would have done just that. Michael Savage, I know alot of people hate the guy, is offering to pay for this kids College scholarship if he get's in touch with him or his staff. So, Atleast something positive will come out of this unfortunate incident. ~$heopleNation
Originally posted by SheopleNation
reply to post by PurpleChiten
Yeah well I would question the intelligence of anyone who believes in either of these two corrupt political Parties. ~$heopleNation