http://communities.washingtontimes.c...udent-who-cri/
word about the incident spread over the internet and, by Monday morning, the 10 minute YouTube video had received more than 168,000 views.
The video illustrates a fact of the educational system painfully understood by some, scoffed at by others: Some teachers misuse their position of authority to influence or bully students into ideological submission.
Ironically, it was Dixon-Neely [who is heard yelling on the video] who initiates the political discussion in her social studies classroom, explaining to students how Mitt Romney bullied a fellow classmate in school, pinned him down and cut his hair.
But a student questions her statement, adding that he had heard that Obama bullied a girl himself when he was in school.
Not expecting to be questioned, Dixon-Neely lashes out against the student as the audio of the tape indicates.
“Stop, no, because there is no comparison,” says Dixon-Neely. “Romney is running for president. Obama is the president.”
The student argues that they are both “just men.” But the teacher continues to argue that it is OK to criticize Romney but not President Obama.
On the tape, as the incident escalates, Dixon-Neely is heard yelling at the student.
“Listen, let me tell you something, you will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom,” says Dixon-Neely.
The student makes a remark about free speech and that he will continue to speak his mind.
“Not about him you won’t,” says Neely. She then suggests that the student could be arrested for talking against the 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?”
Teachers who politicize their classrooms do their students a grave disservice, one with significant repercussions for years to come.
Instead of concentrating on the scholastic staples critical for young minds to compete and succeed in the real world, many teachers have misused their positions to vent their political frustrations and quash free speech, speech that should, at the very least, be present in the classroom.
American students have now fallen behind their global counterparts in reading and mathematics. Results from a recent Harvard University study reveal that U.S. students rank 32nd among industrialized nations in proficiency in math and 17th in reading.
And if teachers like Dixon-Neely are the standard, there is little reason to wonder why.
Conservative commentator and satirist William J. Kelly is also a contributor to Breitbart.com and edits the Tea Party Reports for the Washington Times Communities. He is a native from Chicago's Southside.
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the teacher is a complete idiot and borderline militant whether she knows it or not
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