Teacher Bullies Student, Tells Him It's a Criminal Offense to Criticize the President

Update below

If your kids are not nearby, listen to this shrew of a teacher rant, rave, and harangue a student in class.  There is quite a bit of foul language on the tape (from the student, after he's been screamed at a bit).

The social studies teacher's 'fact of the day' was that Romney was a bully because when he was in high school, he cut a hippie kid's hair.  One of the students says that Obama bullied somebody in school too, she says no he didn't, and another student points out that Obama admits to bullying a kid in his book, he knocked a little girl down. At this point, the teacher loses it completely, shouts him down repeatedly, tells him he is being disrespectful, tell him that it's against the law to 'slander' a President: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/20/NC-teacher-screams-student-Obama

The kid is a bit of a challenge, but he's right about pretty much everything he says, and she is screaming and pounding on something when all he's done is ask a question and back it up with information from Obama's own autobiography.  Later he swears- not really at the teacher, he's just vulgar ('everybody talks *** about the Presidents').

She also announces to the class at large that the boy she dislikes doesn't do his school-work.  "See that your daddy comes to see that you ain't been doing no work."  What a winner.

In one of the news stories about this travesty of a teacher, some expert they ask about it says the boy was setting her up, although he does admit the teacher went overboard and there is no truth to her claim that people have been arrested for 'sayin' bad stuff' about former President Bush.  To back up her claim, and I am not kidding, she says, "there was a government official who called out he was a liar right in the State of the Union address and did anything happen to him? No!"


Not only does that have nothing to do with her claim, and proves the opposite point, but it wasn't Bush, that was Obama.

She also tells him he needs to be in her other class, not that class- and whatever that means, it's clearly an insult and a put-down.

Furthermore, whether the student knew he was pushing her hot buttons or not- and I agree he did, she shouldn't have such easily pushed hot buttons about anything, but especially not about politics, and certainly her heart is on her sleeve when it comes to her man Obama- which is fine in almost any other context, but not she is teaching students in a state school on a state salary.

Furthermore - this student is not the only who is talking, and he's not the only one getting shouted at.   From what I can tell, he's not even the student who 'starts' is- he's just the most informed, which is, of course, why his teacher hates him. His knowledge and poise while under her laughable attempts at withering fire are impressive in a high school student- and she knows it.

This teacher is shockingly ignorant. Her grammar is atrocious and inappropriate for any high school teacher. Her ability to reason is so non-existent it's painful to listen to. Her teaching skills are based on screaming, ranting, and attempting to belittle and marginalize students who disagree with her- that comment about how he belongs in another class is extremely disturbing on many levels.


He keeps telling her he wasn't being disrespectful, he was only asking a question. He asks the class to speak up- they all heard it, didn't he just ask a question?  There is an uncomfortable silence and that is when this teacher-bully says something like, "nobody is going to back you up in here- do you know why? Because you don't belong in this class, you belong in my other class."  She thinks that she's been clever, but she has only been shallow, petulant, nasty, and cruel.  There is an uncomfortable silence.

Here's what I think we all need to know- what is this 'other class?'  Does this misguided bully actually teach special needs kids? An "Alternative" class of some sort?  And did she really just use those poor kids as an insult against another student in her care, as a put-down? That's certainly what it sounds like.


The parents have pulled this boy out of the woman's class and put him in another school.  She continues to be paid by taxpayers to work in a public school, paid to bully, belittle, and lie to their kids- and possibly to teach a second class of, shall we say, less than average kids, kids she holds in such apparent low-regard and disrespect that she uses them to mock and insult a student, telling him in front of all his peers that none of his peers will have the courage to back him up because he is an outside, he is not one of them, he is beyond the pale (a phrase I am certain she doesn't understand or even recognize in the least), because those 'slow' kids-  that is the class where he belongs.  And all the school district can say about it is, "Well, this is a learning experience."


But you know what will happen when those kids graduate?  They will grow up, they will grow into their own skin, and more of them will look back and realize what she did and who she really was- and they will not be impressed. They will cringe. they will regret not standing up when they could have.  They will not want to be party to that sort of low-grade thuggery any longer. She may have just bullied several kids and their families right out of the party she thinks she is defending.


More here, and all over the internets, really.  And about the kid trying to 'pick a fight?'  According to Breitbart, he asked a friend to record it so he could prove to his parents that this teacher yelled at kids, shouted down opposing views, and really had an agenda other than education.  It sure looks like all that is true, so all he was really trying to do was get her to perform as usual.  And it worked.


 Tanya Dixon-Neely's classroom at North Rowan High School is apparently no place for students who want to gain an actual education.

According to the school district, Tanya Dixon-Neely has been suspended with pay, pending investigation. Of course, in the case of a different teacher in another district who permitted the bullying of a special needs child in her classroom, they lied when they claimed that other teacher had been suspended- she'd merely transferred to a different classroom in another district school.