Oct 3, 2012
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A Philadelphia high school teacher is under investigation after she reportedly ordered a student to take off a t-shirt supporting Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and compared the shirt to a Ku Klux Klan sheet.
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The incident occurred at Charles Carroll High School in Port Richmond. When the student refused the order, she tried to throw the girl out of class.
The teacher reportedly told the 16-year-old student that the high school was a “Democratic school” and then threatened to use a marker to cross out Romney’s name.
Philadelphia School District spokesman Fernando Gallard confirmed to Philly.com that, “a teacher made some comments to a student wearing a Romney t-shirt in their classroom.”
“The comments were of a political nature, and also of a personal nature,” he told the newspaper. “We are looking into the comments, and the conduct of the teacher.”
Gallard said the student was well within her rights to wear the t-shirt and was not in violation of any school dress codes.
In the meantime, the teacher was switched out of the class “to allow the student to feel comfortable to come to the class.”
Gallard said the student was within her rights.
“She was expressing her freedom of speech, and was not in violation of any school or district policy,” he told the newspaper.
The incident became public when the child’s father called radio station IQ 106.9 FM.
Richard Pawlucy told radio host Larry Mendte that the incident happened on a day when students were allowed to “dress down.”
He recounted what his daughter’s Geometry teacher told the girl.
“Are you seriously wearing a Romney shirt — and then she told her to get out,” Pawlucy told the radio station. “My daughter took it as a joke. But the teacher left the room and called other teachers and students into her classroom.”
She said the teacher pointed at his daughter and said, “Look at this girl — wearing a Romney shirt.”
“My daughter refused to leave the classroom or acknowledge this bullying,” he said.
That’s when the teacher compared the Romney shirt to a KKK garb and told her, “This is a Democratic school.”
“I never knew a school had a party affiliation,” he said.
When his daughter went back to class she hid in the bathroom until the teacher left. He said other students were taunting her.
“Her classmates were telling her –‘how can you do this to our teacher?’” he recounted. “Why don’t you like Obama? We all like Obama – why don’t you like Obama?”
Mendte was astounded by the incident — especially since it happened in the city where they signed the U.S. Constitution.
“A child shouldn’t be bullied going into a classroom just because she’s politically aware — just because she has an opinion and just because she happens to support a candidate that you do not support,” Mendte said.
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Tough girl – way to go. Keep fighting for your rights.
My hat off to this young lady who apparently has the backbone to stand on her own two feet, especially after being told to do something that she knew was not right. In contrast the teacher not only needed her classroom but recruited other teachers and.students to stand her up to express her Democratic Idealism. 47% ..?
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I don't think this is a single incident involving politics in schools. Teachers have NO right to force their political affiliations upon their students, or vice versa. However, we still have freedom of speech, no? Nothing should have been said. If the teacher disagreed with the student's choice of presidential candidate, she should have just kept silent and did her job as a MATH TEACHER. 'Nuff said.
Did you know that students who choose education as their major have the lowest SAT scores? Not surprising, is it?
Dirty stinkin liberal fascists…these osama supporters have been drunk with power since his election…This is not an isolated incident….Ive beern reading of cases like this all over the country….Better vote for the American in Nopvember folks!
We must realize that the majority of America's colleges have been socialized so that the teaching profession is dominated by liberals.
black folks are not very smart, this proves it. how can she be a teacher?
I disagree that the teacher should be booted. I think this is a golden opportunity. Make a public statement that the teacher must undergo counseling for classroom bullies, and invite a reporter and news photographer to attend the classes with her. Splash her mug across the papers, and make her an example.
Sorry to break this to you Lawton, they got them were they need them, it's called welfare- modern day slavery!
Will Nutter be apologizing to this girl also?
This short interview explains exactly why our "educational' system is nothing more than a way to indoctrinate young people to communism and if anyone should no, it's this guy. He helped start the.
infiltration of our educational system and media and boy was it successful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m_mk7_YAVI
The teacher isn't going to be fired. She should be, but she won't. The libs own our school system.
This is no stupider than what a lot of right-wingers have done, calling Obama a Marxist, communist, a Kenyan, a Muslim, etc. Calling him fo rbeing impeached merely for being a liberal. An incident like thisi oculd also have happened if a conservative teacher in some school had seen a student wearing a pro-obama T shirt.
Lefties can be equally idiotic. Perhaps a tad less frequently, but no less so.
Had a teacher dared to ridicule a student wearing an Obama shirt , the teacher would have been fired and there would be riots in the streets!
Philadelphia girl in political T-shirt flap to transfer schools -Teacher's named revealed.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/10/philadelphia-girl-in-political-t-shirt-flap-to-transfer-schools/#ixzz28w8wQGvB.
this Bitch needs a BEATING!
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