Arrested for talking badly about Obama? Puh-leeze!

[The Annoyed Man]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/n-c-tea ... out-obama/

Last Monday, a high school student in North Carolina engaged his social studies teacher in a heated debate about politics and the two leading presidential candidates. During the exchange, the teacher (an obvious Obama supporter) got very angry with the student and accused him of disrespecting the president. She even went so far as to tell the boy that he could be jailed for speaking ill of Obama.

[C-dub]

Better watch it then TAM. I don't know what you have actually uttered, but from the gems you've given us here they might just lock you up and throw away the key.

[JP171]

can we say lese majeste, yep the emporer Obama would love that

[jocat54]

What a jerk--to bad she is teaching.

[Heartland Patriot]

What a jerk--to bad she is teaching.

Not saying all teachers are like this one, but with enough of this type out there, is it any wonder (bad parenting included, of course) that so many kids turn out the way they do these days?

[The Annoyed Man]

Better watch it then TAM. I don't know what you have actually uttered, but from the gems you've given us here they might just lock you up and throw away the key.

Yeah, I'm beginning to regret the "hope he chokes on a chicken bone" comments. Maybe "hope he chokes on a hot dog" would be more acceptable?

[Oldgringo]

What a jerk--to bad she is teaching.

Not saying all teachers are like this one, but with enough of this type out there, is it any wonder (bad parenting included, of course) that so many kids turn out the way they do these days?

The teachers's union is the biggest union left in this country. You reckon the teacher's union is for the current POTUS? Is the current POTUS pro union? Somebody help me think through this puzzle.

[psijac]

Angry liberal woman pointlessly defends Obama. What else is new?

[jeffrw]

A social studies teacher who doesn't understand the First Amendment...

[The Annoyed Man]

What's painfully obvious too when listening to the video in the article is that this teacher is not in control of her class; and the reason she's not in control of her class is that a lot of the kids don't respect her much; and the reason they don't respect her is that she is obviously NOT a very intelligent woman.

One wonders what kind of sanitized, dumbed down, and scrubbed for liberal orthodoxy "social studies" she is teaching. One thing about teenagers: they may not know everything (even when they think they do), but their bovine manure sensors are very finely tuned and they recognize it when they see it and are not afraid to call it out. Those kids actually give me hope for the future of the country, even while teachers like that make me angry about the condition of our present.....because it is idiots like her that brought us to where we are today.

[i8godzilla]

A social studies teacher who doesn't understand the Constitution ...

I fixed it for you..................

[jimlongley]

What's painfully obvious too when listening to the video in the article is that this teacher is not in control of her class; and the reason she's not in control of her class is that a lot of the kids don't respect her much; and the reason they don't respect her is that she is obviously NOT a very intelligent woman.

One wonders what kind of sanitized, dumbed down, and scrubbed for liberal orthodoxy "social studies" she is teaching. One thing about teenagers: they may not know everything (even when they think they do), but their bovine manure sensors are very finely tuned and they recognize it when they see it and are not afraid to call it out. Those kids actually give me hope for the future of the country, even while teachers like that make me angry about the condition of our present.....because it is idiots like her that brought us to where we are today.

My teachers were much the same all the way back in my high school era, and it got worse in college. My grandmother on my father's side was born in 1879 at an Army fort in Santa Fe, and grew up the daughter of an "indian fighter" I learned a great deal of the ACTUAL history of the US at her knee, especially when she scoffed at TV shows representing those days, and she knew that Colt's 1873 Peacemaker was not used in 1866, too. When I challenged much of the dogma puked up by our history teachers, such as Custer was commanding the ENTIRE 7th Cavalry (he was a battalion commander, not the regiment's) and that Wounded Knee was a glorious victory for our troops (my great grandfather was a participant in the entire Pine Ridge campaign) I received failing grades.

More than 50 years later I can contain my resentment of such treatment by authority figures, but it always makes me wonder:

If they could be so wrong about relatively recent American history, how about the rest? What was the real cause of the "War of Northern Aggression" and if the militia standing up to the ruling party's forces was a good thing in 1776, why wasn't it now?

Some of it is surely the victors writing the history, and most of the rest is a combination of liberal wishful thinking (if that's not the way it really was, it's the way it should have been), recycled dogma from their own unthinking acceptance of what they were taught, and the fact that they can get away with it because they are the TEACHERS.

I feel myself dropping into rant mode. [/rant]

[VMI77]

What's painfully obvious too when listening to the video in the article is that this teacher is not in control of her class; and the reason she's not in control of her class is that a lot of the kids don't respect her much; and the reason they don't respect her is that she is obviously NOT a very intelligent woman.

One wonders what kind of sanitized, dumbed down, and scrubbed for liberal orthodoxy "social studies" she is teaching. One thing about teenagers: they may not know everything (even when they think they do), but their bovine manure sensors are very finely tuned and they recognize it when they see it and are not afraid to call it out. Those kids actually give me hope for the future of the country, even while teachers like that make me angry about the condition of our present.....because it is idiots like her that brought us to where we are today.

My teachers were much the same all the way back in my high school era, and it got worse in college. My grandmother on my father's side was born in 1879 at an Army fort in Santa Fe, and grew up the daughter of an "indian fighter" I learned a great deal of the ACTUAL history of the US at her knee, especially when she scoffed at TV shows representing those days, and she knew that Colt's 1873 Peacemaker was not used in 1866, too. When I challenged much of the dogma puked up by our history teachers, such as Custer was commanding the ENTIRE 7th Cavalry (he was a battalion commander, not the regiment's) and that Wounded Knee was a glorious victory for our troops (my great grandfather was a participant in the entire Pine Ridge campaign) I received failing grades.

More than 50 years later I can contain my resentment of such treatment by authority figures, but it always makes me wonder:

If they could be so wrong about relatively recent American history, how about the rest? What was the real cause of the "War of Northern Aggression" and if the militia standing up to the ruling party's forces was a good thing in 1776, why wasn't it now?

Some of it is surely the victors writing the history, and most of the rest is a combination of liberal wishful thinking (if that's not the way it really was, it's the way it should have been), recycled dogma from their own unthinking acceptance of what they were taught, and the fact that they can get away with it because they are the TEACHERS.

I feel myself dropping into rant mode. [/rant]

I had basically the same experience in high school....most of my teachers were ignorant, and especially ignorant of history. Not so much in college though as I went to a pretty conservative school.

[Crossfire]

You guys amaze me. When I was in high school, I was still blissfully unaware that my teachers (or my parents) could possibly be wrong about anything. I believed pretty much everything that fell out of their mouths. Well, maybe not my parents...

It wasn't until I was on my own, and paying bills and taxes, that I slowly came to the realization that I was not a democrat, after all.

Hey, I may be slow, but I DID eventually get there!