
Diantha Harris of Fayetteville teaches fifth grade in Cumberland County. She left Asheville in 2004. Bloggers on Thursday had identified her as an Asheville teacher and said she “willingly browbeat and belittle a student in class for her choice of a presidential candidate,” according to Tundra Tabloids, a blog about Islamic extremism.“Asheville – A former city schools teacher filmed in a Swedish documentary talking about politics in the classroom is drawing fire from bloggers for “belittling” a student who supported Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Harris, in an interview today with the Asheville Citizen-Times, said that’s not true. A crew from Sweden’s public broadcasting company STV visited her classroom in May for the documentary “From Bill to Barack.”
UPDATE: Pikkupoika informs the TT that Charles Johnson REFUSES TO GIVE ACCREDITATION to the Tundra Tabloids…
Pikkupoika: Guess who has your video posted? Of course, without any credit to you.. and even this: 33 Charles 11/06/08 2:33:36 pm reply quote 6I’m not going to send any traffic to tundratabloid. Links to that site will be deleted.
UPDATE: there is also this: Charles Johnson: ‘tundratabloid’ is run by a rabidly anti-LGF hater, who supports Eurofascists.
Well Chuckles of course got it all wrong, I don’t hate LGF, I just think that the editor is an arrogant ass and self defeating primadonna. And the TT does not support ‘Eurofascists’, something of which ol’ CJ can’t even define. Charles Johnson uses the term ‘Fascists’ to smear everyone and everything that refuses to dance to his tune and pay homage to the “lidless One”.
UPDATE: Robert Spencer says it best here (to his readers) about LGF and Charles Johnson:
“I am asking you and everyone else who reads this not to go hatin’ on Charles Johnson. Do not write to him. Let us show here that we are operating on a higher level than the defamation and lie factory that Little Green Footballs, starring Killgore Trout, Sharmuta, and medaura, has become.”
Keep up the good work, Down with Lizard nation!!!!
These are education board members, her principal and Vice Principal.
KimberlyPFisher@aol.com,
GregWest@nc.rr.com,
MacWilliams@nc.rr.com,
hfarrior@nc.rr.com,
DLaHuffman@nc.rr.com,
fkbarragan@nc.rr.com,
Royalme@nc.rr.com,
MackyH@nc.rr.com,
LolaW@ccs.k12.nc.us,
MicheleCain@ccs.k12.nc.us
please write and let these people know what you think about Diantha Harris.
Superintendent Harrison’s apologia wasn’t bad, but he needs to go further and have an official apology and explanation of the Board policy given to the affected kids, parents, teachers and community members (all of them). If you can use your influence to further that goal, I for one would be most appreciative.
david Horowitz’s PSAF was created for this exact type of thing: //www.psaf.org/
Lots of great language there to hammer the school board, PTA president, and superintendent.
The kids should be informed and free to complain/file a grievance whenever this cr@p happens
And whatever disciplinary actions teachers will recieve, should be spelled out in the welcome to school handbooks/pamphlets distributed at the beginning of every school year.
North Carolina’s Cumberland County School Board Policy
Political Activity:
“Under no circumstances are assemblies, school classes, or students to be used in partisan political activities during the school day.”
//www.ccsboardpolicy.ccs.k12.nc.us/gahb.pdf
//www.ccsboardpolicy.ccs.k12.nc.us/index/AlphabeticalListingOfPolicies.htm
Public Complaints Policy:
//www.ccsboardpolicy.ccs.k12.nc.us/kn.pdf
Tangential, but relevant:
Pledge of Allegience Undermined by Santa Monica School Board
Part 1: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgsg2jximEE
Part 2: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax3Kj8jfMJs