Another reason to homeschool through high school

Oh I so love cellphones in the class room – how else would we catch what is really going on in the class rooms!

This example of bullying (by the teacher towards her students) and indoctrination, is priceless!

The video shows a classroom discussion about the Washington Post hit piece about Mitt Romney bullying a kid some five decades ago. One student says, “Didn’t Obama bully someone though?” The teacher says: “Not to my knowledge.” The student then cites the fact that Obama, in Dreams from My Father, admits to shoving a little girl. “Stop, no, because there is no comparison,” screams the teacher. Romney is “running for president. Obama is the president.”
The student responds that both are “just men.”
The teacher yells — literally yells — that Obama is “due the respect that every other president is due … Listen,” she continues, “let me tell you something, you will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom.” She yells over the student repeatedly, and yells at him that it’s disrespect for him to even debate about Romney and Obama.
The student says that he can say what he wants.
“Not about him, you won’t,” says the teacher.
The teacher then tells the student – wrongly – that it is a criminal offense to say bad things about a president. “Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush? Do you realize you are not supposed to slander the president?”
The student says that it would violate First Amendment rights to jail someone for such sentiments. “You would have to say some pretty f’d up crap about him to be arrested,” says the student. “They cannot take away your right to have your opinion … They can’t take that away unless you threaten the president.”
Clearly, the student should be teaching the class, and the teacher should be reading the Constitution more often.

Gee whiz – where to start.

First of all, if it was against the law to say something bad against the president, there would be a lot of unemployed and incarcerated political cartoonists! In fact many comedians would be doing some serious time!

But more troubling – this is one incident caught be one student in one school. It begs the question of what goes on in other public schools that the public is never privy to?

Yet another reason to continue home education into the high school years in my opinion.