~*~
“In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.” — Voltaire
Updated: The Ministry of Education is already on the job!
The Dutch media, sadly, is not in receipt of the memo.
Update 2: Chris Matthews got the memo!
Lex, thanks for the pingback on this!
The interview at the end was particularly galling. She claimed to have said, “That’s good.” and gone on. That is not what I heard.
This is exactly why I drive a 14 year-old car and send my kids to private school. Whenever I think of all the things I could buy with what I spend on their schooling, I see stuff like this and am convinced it is money well spent.
The teacher was only doing this for the Greater Good.
Didn’t want to, but felt like she owed it to the kids.
She needs to be fired. Now that the pendulum has passed to the far left may I call her a racist?
She needs to look up the definition of browbeat.
It sounds like she was trying to do a social studies or civics lesson, but she was so painfully biased in her teaching that almost appeared staged.
Those teachers are the kind that give public schools a bad rap.
Kind of like we used to say in the P-3 world, one aw sh*t just killed 10 attaboys.
Sickening.
Reminds me too much of this short story by James Clavell. Only we don’t have to wait for someone to re-educate us, we’re doing it to ourselves.
http://home.comcast.net/~llefler/clavell.htm
We homeschool.
Videos such as this reinforce what was a difficult decision.
My grandson got out of public schools three years ago, thank God.
Both my children went through public school. The “re-education camp” took place at the dinner table EVERY NIGHT…
Small progress, and it addresses only the symptoms, not the illness, but still:
Fayetteville Reporter has a piece that the Superintendent has been made aware of the video and is looking into it. Also, “… schools Superintendent Bill Harrison took an unusual step Friday of making his own YouTube video, in which he reads a statement saying he was “shocked” and “disturbed” by what he saw. He promises to take “appropriate action” following an investigation.”
He also called the [military] parent of the student in the video and apologized. Sounds like an honorable, sane man. A reminder that as bad as our public school system can be (at its worst), there are still a majority of teachers and administrators working to do the right thing.
They are underminded by the likes of Diatha D. Harris.
Perfect example of why it’s better for ballots to be secret.