Kentucky Teacher Goes on Anti-Obama Rant

Kentucky high school teacher reprimanded for political attack on students

Psychology teacher Kendra Baker wrote, 'You can't be a democrat and go to heaven' on the whiteboard during an anti-Obama rant a week after the presidential election, one student's mother said. The school district says the actions violated policy but the teacher wasn't fired.

A Kentucky teacher is accused of ridiculing a student whose political views she didn’t agree with, scrawling “You can’t be a democrat and go to heaven” on the whiteboard.

South Laurel High School psychology teacher Kendra Baker railed against same-sex marriage and Obamacare even after one student in the class, 17-year-old Chelsea Gilbert, says she asked her to stop.

“I feel like she was bullied by a teacher,” Chelsea’s mother Mary Gilbert told Lex 18 News.

Chelsea, a senior at the school and an Obama supporter, told the teacher she was offending people, her mom told Kentucky.com.

Baker reportedly retaliated by telling the teen she would one day have to watch her parents die because of Obama’s healthcare law.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teacher-accused-political-attack-kids-article-1.1209346#ixzz2DiUxafGy

She looks sweet.

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Religious beliefs crossing the line into hurting others, thanks to politics. That she's in a school is even worse, since the people she's attacking are not adults.

The insanity of today's Republican party is obvious here. They've convinced her that only they, and no one else, is right. She's allowed herself to fear all things Democrat, to not consider anything not specifically endorsed by her party. Essentially, they've convinced her to ignore her capability to reason.

She's a weak-minded fool, and she's not alone.

 

I like the fact that the teacher wasn't suspended and the student is the one that has been forced to be home schooled. Kentucky! God, gays, and guns.

 

The BBC has a story on their site about a new requirement that the theory of evolution must be part of the curriculum in "free schools", or the governments funding for that school will cease.

These schools operate, in part or whole I don't know, on those funds, but any group of people; parents, religious sects, what have you, actually run the schools and dictate what can and can't be taught (within certain restrictions, I believe). I may be getting a few details wrong, but the gist of it is that these schools formerly were allowed to "preach" whatever they saw fit, but received public funding to do so, and the new regulation is probably angering a lot of them.

Think of that in terms of Republican sects (local areas throughout the country) doing the same thing here. Yes, they can in privately-funded schools, but I mean public schools. In some sense, as with your story, they are.

I have no problem with a person's personal religious beliefs, but to tell a student "Your parents are not worthy of Heaven", ...while I personally would laugh, flip the teacher off, and tell her to go to Hell... to some, such a thing can be quite a serious issue. It's about the freedom to worship, not the freedom to tell kids their beliefs, or their parent's beliefs, are wrong.

She should be fired, but the board is likely agreeing with her, and isn't going to until enough pressure mounts. From their point of view, she's right.

I have poured over the election results for my area, and Republicans have won most of those board seats here. Republicans like to say that colleges are the breeding place of Democrats, but here at least, our public schools are the breeding place of Republicans, or are at least the policies teachers must abide by are led by them. I'm not saying my area is as nuts as other areas, we do have a pretty good balance here, but I'd like to see that better represented on the boards.

The problem is indifference, and I'm guilty of that. Locally, the cities lean towards the Democrats (Houghton and Hancock) while the less populated areas lean the other way. It comes down to people understanding more than the tired "Republicans look to be more God-fearin', an' so they must be right about everything. Democrats are destroying America!" crap, it's moronic to believe in such ways, and there are a lot of morons out there content to continue to be morons.

But, how can you get someone to realize that mistake? You can't MAKE them be smarter than that, but you can show them the facts; Representatives pledging to never raise taxes ever? Really? You think that is sensible and good for the country? Ever wonder why the road to your house is deteriorating and the road commission has stopped answering your calls? Taxes USED to pay for that. You have elderly parents on Social Security? Didn't you notice that they used to be able to afford both their medications AND food? Ever wonder why you have to help them buy fuel in Winter to avoid freezing to death? Ever notice the ones with no family freezing to death?

That kind of thing has to be pounded on people, mercilessly. The Democrats have the power and money to do it, but they don't do it hard enough to reach people who brush off their weak attempts, since they consider the Democrats unworthy of being listened to.

I say, shout at them. Use funds to put ads in local papers summarizing those things that the apathetic masses tend to ignore. I say the Dems should go to War with these lying bastards, and not pull any more punches. Let the people learn, give them that chance to learn. Like I said, we can't force them to, but we can give them the opportunity.

Or whatever. IMO

 

Not real bright on the teacher's part.

Maybe we should invite her to the forum?

 

I might be missing the point of this post.

 

She's a BRICK................. HOUSE?

 

And wondering if that is maybe why she didn't get suspended...

 

Oh, that would be fun...I guess.
I doubt she'd stay long though.