North Rowan (North Carolina) teacher suspended

The Salisbury Post ^ | May 21, 2012 | Nathan Hardin

[abb]

SALISBURY — Rowan-Salisbury Schools officials suspended a North Rowan High School teacher Monday while investigating an incident caught on camera where the teacher told a student he could be arrested for speaking ill of President Barack Obama.

In a nearly 10-minute YouTube video shot by a student in the classroom, Tanya Dixon-Neely, a social studies teacher, told students criticism of the president could lead to jail time.

“Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush?” she said of former President Bush. “Do you realize you are not supposed to slander the president?”

Dixon-Neely has been suspended with pay, according to Rowan-Salisbury School System Spokeswoman Rita Foil.

On Friday, Foil said the incident can be a learning experience.

“The Rowan-Salisbury School System expects all students and employees to be respectful in the school environment and for all teachers to maintain their professionalism in the classroom. This incident should serve as an education for all teachers to stop and reflect on their interaction with students.”

A Salisbury Post reporter went to Dixon-Neely's home for comment this morning, but no one answered the door. Calls to her number have gone unanswered and there is no answering machine.

The video went viral over the weekend and viewership jumped from about 1,000 views to more than 168,000 Monday morning.

[abb]

This just in...

[Timber Rattler]

It’s amazing what a little public light will do for changing a school admin’s attitude...the superintendent was defending her over the weekend, and now she’s disappeared.

[MileHi]

Sweet

[GoDuke]

She should be fired for incompetence.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Dixon-Neely has been suspended with pay

She wasn't suspended. She was given a paid vacation.

I heard the audio. She is too ignorant to be a teacher.

[Linda Frances]

I listened to this early this morning. Liberals yell and intimidate if you don’t conform to their beliefs. It takes a brave young person to stand up to them.
This teacher sounds like some of the people I worked with. Lie if you must, because the ends justify the means.

[who knows what evil?]

...the superintendent was defending her over the weekend...

Good...he/she can hit the road, as well...there is NO defending that crap.

[MindBender26]

Abb,

Don’t you just know she weigh about 400 pounds?

[tennmountainman]

Now, since the public knows the name of the school, the school rats are running for the tall grass.

[RexBeach]

Amish?

[stephenjohnbanker]

She won’t lose her job.... bet on it.

[freeangel]

“suspended with pay”

An obaba worshippers dream

[Gabrial]

Suspended with pay.

I call that a reward. It’s called a free vacation.

She needs to be fired and have her teaching license revoked.

[MindBender26]

Listen to her at link and you will know.... VERY Amish!

You know.... I’m just sayin.....

[skinkinthegrass]

hopefully; she'll be updating her resume.
good news for her..the Norks are hiring.

[DBrow]

“Dixon-Neely has been suspended with pay”

Or rewarded with vacation time off the union book?

[ColdOne]

Nice!

[red-dawg]

“Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush?” she said of former President Bush. “Do you realize you are not supposed to slander the president?”

.

I wonder how much time this guy got...

[EEGator]

Female, black, and most likely union...good luck with that.

[rawhide]

She will probably get an early summer break with pay, of course, then she will be back again next year to teach/indoctrinate again.

Strange the principle called this ‘a learning experience’, much like obamma himself called an earlier controversy.

[EEGator]

Yes please!

[abb]

Wonder if this story makes The Charlotte Observer, the closest big paper to Salisbury? I say not.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

[camle]

people got arrested for speaking badly about bush? really? how many! what are the names! the crimes? if this was true, half of the democrat party would have been arrested, including mosst of the Senate adn the House, and Hollywood would be a ghost town.

[who knows what evil?]

She was given a paid vacation.

Exactly...and North Carolina property tax payers are picking up the tab. Sweet, indeed. Some 'punishment'...

[BO Stinkss]

Sharpton to the rescue!

[rhubarbk]

Is she a rapper . . . No, then no, it won’t make the Observer.

[tcrlaf]

Listen to the lib whackjob teacher...

It was OK to criticize BOOSH! because “Everyone was doing it.”

This is what passes for teaching today, folks.

AND THIS HAPPENS EVERY SINGLE DAY.

[2ndDivisionVet]

They’re just waiting for the dust to settle so they can promote her to assistant principal.

[lucky american]

In the audio, did anyone listen to the teacher's grammar? I often wondered how blacks, raised in America, still cannot speak English and listening to that teacher, I now know why.
Poor children.

[SandRat]

The students sound smarter than the so socalled teacher.

The socalled teacher”s voicegives her away as something else as well (e.g. Sharpton).

[EEGator]

That is what I’m talking about! Your two posts are clearly the winners of the comments section. (Third time is a charm...)

[SMARTY]

“Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush?”

• Who?

• When?

• Where are they now?

• Why didn’t the Liberal MSM make red meat out of that?

I have never heard such BS in my life!!!!

[icwhatudo]

While the kid was right..he was also a jerk. Constantly yelling out (the entire class was out of control), threatening to call his dad, admitting he did no work in the class. Everyone sounds bad in the audio. Kid did have the facts on his side though.

[camle]

with all the background noise, she was hardly in anything LIKE control of the class. incompetence.

[Fightin Whitey]

“should be fired for incompetence”

And ignorance, and immaturity, and incomprehensibility, and...

[tcrlaf]

The Wife taught in a Panther-controlled Public school for a few years. This is NOTHING compared to some of things they said, and anyone that DARED to criticize them was an OBVIOUS RACIST.

The wife finally decided to play her certified American Indian Card on one of these racist whackjobs one afternoon, and they had NO IDEA how to respond to it.

Luckily, most of these people are retired out, now.

[luvbach1]

Libs tend to get bent out of shape in any debate and call for censorship of opposing opinions, as in this case. That’s why they repeatedly shout down conservative speakers on college campuses. When the facts aren’t with you it’s frustrating, and in their case, even maddening.

[stylin19a]

The Rowan-Salisbury School System expects all students and employees to be respectful in the school environment and for all teachers to maintain their professionalism in the classroom. ...

nothing in the statement regarding teachers should not be dumber than a stack of hammers.

[null and void]

with pay.

A paid vacation.

Nice.

[luvbach1]

Of course libs only want conservative critics of a liberal president arrested and prosecuted. I really believe they would do this if they had the power, ala the Soviet Union and Red China. If Obama can pack enough communists onto the supreme court it could happen.

[null and void]

I don’t know why you are doing that, but I’m grateful...

[SMARTY]

That ‘teacher’ has the IQ of a tree slug...and NO control of her classroom

[wastedyears]

I like how on the second bar on the right side, is the first article about this incident, then another article on top, then this article about the teacher getting canned.

[Fightin Whitey]

!Esta es no Ruth Bader Ginzburg!

[elpadre]

“..has been suspended with pay...” = extra paid vacation or bonus

[wastedyears]

Now what does she look like without all the makeup and Photoshop?

[luvbach1]

That ‘teacher’ has the IQ of a tree slug...and NO control of her classroom.

You nailed it. But look for her return after things die down. Her suspension with pay (read paid vacation) heralded that.