Updated/Bumped: Diantha Harris Needs To Be Fired

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Email away with your complaints... She is listed as a 5th grade teacher at this school. You can access her email here:

http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/faculty_and_staff.htm

You can access the principal here:

http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us

Diantha Harris used to work in Ashville she now works in Fayetteville at "Mary McArthur Elementary".
Principles name is Lola B Williams -- school phone number is -- (910) 424-2206

if you go to their website you can email Mrs Harris or the Principle.

This is the email of the principal. Write to her and demand accountability. Take the spaces out:

LolaW@ccs.k12.nc.us

School Superintendent William C. Harrison
910.678.2300

From Email:

The headline in this video is inaccurate.  The individual has not been employed by our district since 2004.
 
Thank you.
 
Allen Johnson
Superintendent
Asheville City Schools

From comments:

http://www.asheville.k12.nc.us/default.aspx

Asheville City Schools
Attn: Superintendent
85 Mountain Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 350-7000

Absolutely disgusting and indefensible. h/t HotAir. It appears Bush Sr likely met with the Harris family some years ago.

Exchange With Reporters During a Visit With the Harris Family in Asheville, North Carolina

Diantha Harris: It’s a senseless war! [Stares at Kathy.] And by the way, Kathy, the person that you’re picking for president said [Harris shakes her head] that our troops could stay in Iraq for another hundred years if they need to! [Kathy bites her lip, looks ashamed. Other kids stare at Kathy, laugh, smirk.] So that means that your daddy could stay in the military for another hundred years!

[Kathy is on verge of tears.]

[In an interview later:]

Diantha Harris: Now I can support whomever I want to support, as long as I don’t browbeat another person for the candidate that they supported. Like I have some students that support John McCain, and when they told me that, I said ah … “that’s good’ and I just moved on. So, I think that everybody is entitled to their own personal opinion.

Comments

[North Dallas Thirty]

And there's the next Teacher of the Year as awarded by Barack Obama.

[templar knight]

Dan, this shit has been going on for years. Hell, you couldn't get that fat ass retard fired if she struck a white kid in the mouth, and it will only get worse. Put your children in private school, and get them away from useless, uneducated idiots like Harris.

[joeb]

Ah the good old days. Happy Days Are Here Again. Remember Ms. Elders?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joycelyn_Elders
This is what we have to look forward to in the next 4 years. Get ready for more laughs.

[Karen]

This is UNACCEPTABLE!

I am sick and tired of "adults" who are in positions of authority over children CRUSHING THEIR SPIRITS, rather than building them up. I hate them!

[OdysseusInRTP]

I live in Asheville. My son goes to private school for this very reason.

I've never had any desire to be part of a protest, but this kind of behavior from a teach might be a good reason to start.

[North Dallas Thirty]

But remember, protesting this would be RAAAAAAAACIST!

[WAHOO WILLIE]

RTP: Run for Buncombe Co school board......as if it would do any good. Teachers down east can't do that stuff............

[IslamoLlama]

"-- I am sick and tired of "adults" who are in positions of authority over children CRUSHING THEIR SPIRITS, rather than building them up. I hate them! --"

I agree. That's why I'm homeschooling my kids. Secondary opinion my pasty white ass. The very idea that children would be confronted by people who disagree with their parents! SHAMEFUL!

Children are precious and innocent and so perfectly naive. It is important to shield them from everyone and everything lest they grow up thinking that their parents' worldview isn't the absolute, perfect, and singular view one should be allowed to have.

WON'T SOMEONE SAVE THE CHILDREN FROM THOSE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE LIBERALS?!

/lols

[Ray]

Start calling and writing!!

Asheville City Schools
Attn: Superintendent
85 Mountain Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 350-7000

[Ray]

http://www.asheville.k12.nc.us/default.aspx

[North Dallas Thirty]

Notice, folks, how IslamoLlama makes it clear that you are perfectly within your rights as a teacher to shame, humiliate, and make cry children in your classroom because you disagree with their parents.

Barack Obama's education system now revealed.

[Philip McDaniel]

Just another Thug Thizzle.

[Em]

As a taxpayer in the state of NC, I just e-mailed the entire Asheville City School and Buncombe County School boards.

Maybe our children would perform better during testing if these teachers stuck to the textbooks instead of trying to share their own personal inadequate "knowledge".

[brenda]

Nuff said >>>>>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlpODYhnPEo

[IslamoLlama]

"-- Notice, folks, how IslamoLlama makes it clear that you are perfectly within your rights as a teacher to shame, humiliate, and make cry children in your classroom because you disagree with their parents. --"

Make children cry.

And let's all be clear here. If she were a conservative attacking her students for supporting Obama, this post wouldn't exist. This has absolutely nothing to do with her being a teacher and making kids cry. I know more than a few conservative parents who encourage using the paddle in public schools. It has everything to do with vilifying the President-elect using whatever strung out logically flawed argument Dan can stumble upon. This is about Obama, plan and simple.

[Scrapiron]

A good ass kicking might teach her a lesson, if that don't work a tire full of gas around her neck would end the problem forever. We only have riots in the U.S. because we didn't kill the first 10 people who started one, and we only have freaks as teachers because someone didn't have the b**** to fire the stupid ones. Hundreds of lives would have been saved by killing 10 worthless P'sOS
Public shool teachers have became so much slime I agree that a private school is the only way to go. The people can change this in one day by shutting the public schools down and running the union thugs out of the country. Don't let the weenie's in charge tell you it can't be done. The weenie's are also living on 'your' money.

I'm not advocating violence, just getting ahead of the violence that will come within a few months. Think it's bad now, wait for the Hussein O thugs they will be calling the 'civilian security force' come on board. Get on every congress critters butt and don't let that happen. They are all job scared so it won't take a lot of pressure to make them object to any such force.

[Bilby]

IslamoLlama, to you it's about Obama. For the rest of us it's about a teacher abusing her student.

You defend abusing students because you think it's defending Obama.

Have you no shame?

[North Dallas Thirty]

If she were a conservative attacking her students for supporting Obama, this post wouldn't exist.

But it isn't a conservative attacking her students for supporting Obama, it's a liberal attacking her students for supporting McCain.

And you support that.

Since you support that and say it's perfectly all right for teachers to attack students who don't share their political views, what do you care? Or is the message here that you only care if it's a conservative teacher?

"I know more than a few conservative parents who encourage using the paddle in public schools."

To punish children who misbehave severely in class, yes.

So in your weird moral equivalency world, children who support McCain or whose parents support McCain should be punished in school.

And what this all boils down to, IslamoLlama, is that you support a teacher punishing and humiliating a student in the classroom for daring to disagree with the person the teacher supports.

All because that person supports Obama.

[SixDegrees]

I contacted the Asheville School District and received the following short reply:

"This individual has not been employed by our district since 2004."

That doesn't mean she doesn't teach in Asheville. But it isn't with the public school district there.

I agree that this behavior constitutes child abuse, by any definition of the term. But it's important to hit the target.

I'm thinking that the classroom depicted is affiliated with the church shown at the end of the full clip. Anyone speak Dutch? Or anyone in Asheville have any ideas about where this woman is torturing children?

[Robert]

Diantha Harris has not taught in Asheville City Schools for over 4 years. She has in fact moved down east. This would not be tolerated in Asheville City Schools if discovered.

[Fair & Balanced]

http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/faculty_and_staff.htm

5th Grade

[Lulu]

How on Earth do idiots like this get a teaching degree in the first place??? I have a horrible feeling this is going on in many other schools also. Is this a sign of things to come???

[DaveinPhoenix]

...or while we're at it, let's do like the lefties have done for the past eight years and REALLY raise hell. Contacting the superintendent is great, but let's all go one small step further:

Contact the useless political representation there as well and tell them harrassing children is sub-human. Tell them the teacher, Diantha Harris, uses the classroom as a propaganda vehicle to shove her politics down the children’s throats:

Governor
• Michael Easley (D)

House of Representatives
• D. Bruce Goforth (D-115)

Senators
• Elizabeth Dole (R)
• Richard Burr (R)

[zack a]

disgusting

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Mike Sleazy will probably promote her before he turns over state reigns to that idot Lt Gov my idiot neighbors made governor...........she'll create a holiday for her. Don't know Goforth. Dole is out and her sucessor will also say alms to the teacher...or at least lie about doing so. Burr needs to think about keeping his seat in 2010. She's teaching in Fayettenam...That's Fort Bragg/Pope AFB for you foreigners.....Send a letter to the editor of the Fayetteville Observer.

[Spartan112]

That woman is a horrible teacher plain and simple. She should not be engaging students in that type of conversation, period. There is no educational goal there, none.

I send very little time talking politics with kids at school, though given we're a boarding school with a good number of international students that can sometimes be tough to avoid. That said making fun of a child's choice and then bringing her family into it is shameful.

I guarantee Obama would feel the same way about it.

As for the notion that paddling kids for poor behavior is a good thing...wow, it's 2008 my friend. We know that doesn't work, it simply breeds resentment and more violence.

[Spartan112]

BTW, this doesn't surprise me one bit coming out of a southern public school. We need higher standards for teachers and we need to make it a more desirable job so that we breed competition for the positions. Less emphasis on "education" degrees and more emphasis on subject areas.

[chezdiva]

Just sent an email to the principal - here's her email address: LolaW@ccs.k12.nc.us
I recommend that you too write her a note, keep it nice and to the point. This teacher must go she has no business shaping the minds of our children - and in this case destroying the spirit of this little girl.

[Eliza]

Why waste time complaining to the school superintendent? He/she's in the tank for Obama, too. However, Diantha's home phone number is available if you do a search on www.whitepages.com.

[templar knight]

Yeah, right, Spartan. You can't get decent people to teach in public school. Even a liberal teacher in New York, I believe it was, called his students a bunch of animals. And was fired, even though he wasn't far from the truth, given the lack of any discipline and the quality of the administrators in the public school system.

This thing posing as a teacher is pretty commonplace throughout the South, and East, and Midwest, and West Coast. Look at the mess the Chicago Public School System is in, or California schools, where 25% drop out of school before they graduate. My daughter is in the 8th grade, is one of 22 students, and is one of eight in her class who scored 20 or above on the ACT. The statewide average for the ACT is barely above 20 in the state I reside in, yet 8th graders in our private school are scoring ahead of most seniors in public school. And the teachers in our school are for the most part retired public school teachers who have come back to teach because they love teaching. And they are taking less money, yet enjoying the wonderful experience one gets from stimulating the minds of young people.

My advice, get your children out of public school, even if you have to sacrifice something. Drive an older model vehicle, downsize your home, just get your children out of the public schools. They, and you, will be better served in the long run.

[Spartan112]

Why waste time complaining to the school superintendent? He/she's in the tank for Obama, too. However, Diantha's home phone number is available if you do a search on www.whitepages.com.

Posted by: Eliza | Thursday, November 06, 2008 at 10:03 PM

This has nothing to do with political affiliation and everything to do with a woman who is not qualified to teach, if the superintendent is any good he'll realize this regardless of who he supports politically. And if you think calling her home will solve anything go right ahead but realize that you will potentially be committing a crime.

[JD]

Think this video is bad. How about the fag teacher in San Fran Cisco that handed out papers to the students asking them to check off things they should not say/and how they should treat gays. Also, the eacher that took her class to witness the union of her and her.
Now if that would have been a teacher taking their class to a religious retreat, it would have benn pasted all over CNN,ABC, NBC, CBS, Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times.

[Eliza]

Spartan, sure, I know she is not qualified to teach (I used to be a teacher myself until I left that "profession" for law). However, it *does* have something to do with a teacher who is propounding her political ideology and presenting herself as an "objective" presenter, as she does in the interview. Teachers are supposed to strive toward objectivity; they are supposed to encourage students to express their personal points of view and not berate the students for doing so. Unless a student is arguing that 2 plus 2 + 5, a teacher is not supposed to come down on a student for expressing a p.o.v. And the teacher should not be bludgeoning the students with his or her point of view. The teacher is in too powerful of a role.

I would make the same complaint against a pro-McCain teacher who "bludgeoned" a student for his/her belief in Obama. (Funny, though -- we haven't had any reports of that type of incident happening. That is partially because teachers with conservative political beliefs know to keep their beliefs "in the closet." It may also be that teachers with conservative political beliefs are more committed to striving to be objective in the classroom -- as I was when I was a teacher.)

[Eliza]

That should have been "2 plus 2 = 5."

[Spartan112]

"I would make the same complaint against a pro-McCain teacher who "bludgeoned" a student for his/her belief in Obama."

You're making my point for me.

"teachers with conservative political beliefs know to keep their beliefs "in the closet." It may also be that teachers with conservative political beliefs are more committed to striving to be objective in the classroom -- as I was when I was a teacher.)"

Horse pucky. I had a HS history teacher who was a big time Reagan supporter and would gladly tell you why he was the best president of all time (while he was still in office) and why FDR was one of the worst...all objectively of course.

"I used to be a teacher myself until I left that "profession" for law"

Not everyone can cut it as a teacher. Don't beat yourself up over it.

[Eliza]

If you are going to quote me, quote accurately. I said, "Funny, though -- we haven't had any reports of that type of incident happening. That is partially because teachers with conservative political beliefs know to keep their beliefs 'in the closet.'" YOU quoted me as saying: "teachers with conservative political beliefs know to keep their beliefs 'in the closet.'"

Don't "words matter" to you as much as they do to your precious Obamessiah?

I used the term "partially" because I was not stating something absolutely, the way you are representing my words as doing. First lesson of any type of academics or law: QUOTE ACCURATELY. The fact that you can't do this is what relegates you to internet troll status -- and that fact will keep you there.

Also evidencing your troll status is your put-down of my work as a teacher. I was a very successful teacher for over 15 years. However, like most Americans, I moved on to a new, real profession in the middle of my work life. One of my central reasons for leaving the teaching "profession," however, is because of liberal loons like Diantha Harris. I know the desultory state of the teaching biz -- I've seen it first hand for many years. I simply could not participate any longer in the teacher's fruitless task of working to stem the tide of the continued unraveling of the social fabric. Now, as a lawyer, I MAKE MONEY off of the continued unraveling of the social fabric.

So, in a sense, part of me wants people like Diantha Harris to just "keep on keepin' on." They continue to poison the minds and values of their little charges, and those children grow up to be selfish adults who get into legal trouble and who pay people like me to solve their legal trouble for them.

However, part of me continues to be an idealist. And that means I want teachers -- especially public school teachers -- to continue to shoot for objectivity over liberal (or conservative) ax-grinding.

[templar knight]

I guess you teach in public school, Spartan, or do you? I have my doubts.

[Spartan112]

I did quote you accurately, I cut and pasted your words precisely.

And Temp, I teach at a private school.

[Spartan112]

Besides, the part of your quote that was relevant to my comment was the following:

"It may also be that teachers with conservative political beliefs are more committed to striving to be objective in the classroom -- as I was when I was a teacher.)"

So go ahead and accuse me of trying to take it out of context but you'll just end up being wrong.

[vanderleun]

She’s in Cumberland County… Fayetteville. A LONG way away from Asheville.
Her Board:
http://www.communications.ccs.k12.nc.us/Board/BOE.htm
Her School:
http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/faculty_and_staff.htm
Apparently you can email her directly from the school’s website.
You can use your 1st amendment rights as an American to let this woman know what you think of her educational techniques!
Email Diantha: http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/email/diathaharris.htm

[SacTownMan]

Lame-O states,

"That's why I'm homeschooling my kids."

Ah, then a future generation of hating trolls is assured!

[Elizabeth]

Email away with your complaints...

She is listed as a 5th grade teacher at this school. You can access her email here:

http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/faculty_and_staff.htm

You can access the principal here:

http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us

I'm a teacher and out of work - I'd love to have her job!

[cindi]

Had this been my childs teacher, I would have humikated the shit out of her. Another reason we decuded on Catholic schools.

[Spartan112]

Yes, the catholic schools have no history of humiliation or abuse...

[Bandit]

And it's a wonder that libtards are so f'ng stupid?

[BobinStamford]

This is terrible!! A good public school system is essential! President B Hussein Obama knows this. He has seen what poor education can do. Look at that halfwit Sarah Palin. The bimbo doesn't even know that Africa is a continent!

The SURGE Worked!! Victory is at hand!!

[joeb]

Boob the Messiah sends his kids to private school in Chicago. Will he send them to private schools in DC? Let the hypocrisy begin.

[marc]

She's in Fayetteville. email her here:

http://www.mmes.ccs.k12.nc.us/email/diathaharris.htm

[Philip McDaniel]

Trust BobinStamford to come up with some off the wall comment. Good points, Spartan112, templar knight et al. Nice fresh debate.

[Spartan112]

How on earth is sending his kids to private school "hypocrisy"? Just because he supports public schools too? I support the right of gays to marry but I'm in a heterosexual marriage, is that hypocritical?