Teacher tells 6th grade class that ‘Republicans are stupid’

Hot Air.com ^ | April 7, 2012 | Howard Portnoy

[Kaslin]

I suppose it can said of a Virginia elementary school teacher who allegedly told her students “Republicans are stupid” that she at least spoke her mind. Her actions are more defensible than those of a fellow Old Dominion State colleague who deviously tasked her students with finding flaws in the GOP presidential candidates but not in the lone Democratic candidate.

The Daily Caller reports that “as Republican voters were filing into the halls of [Colin] Powell Elementary School in Fairfax County to vote on Super Tuesday,” teacher Kristin Martin told her sixth-grade class that “Republicans are stupid” and “they don’t care about anyone but wealthy people and businesses.”

One of the students in the class told The DC:

It all started when this disabled kid came in and named all the Republicans candidates for Super Tuesday. She [Martin] said to him, ‘I don’t like them, I think that they are stupid.’

The blog additionally notes that Martin reportedly told the class that she had voted for Obama and that “Democrats do more for the community and schools.”

I reached out to John Torre, a spokesman for the school district, who said that the county’s investigation into the incident was “inconclusive.” The teacher, he told me, denies having made these statements, which means that in the district’s eyes it boils down to a case of “she said, they said.”

But not all the parents of children in Martin’s class are satisfied with that outcome. One mother, a self-identified Republican, is quoted by The DC as saying:

I felt like the teacher was brainwashing naïve, young children to believe people like me, my family and, to a certain extent, my daughter, were stupid.

The reaction is understandable, but I would find it far more instructive to know what a parent who is a Democrat thinks of this type of proselytizing—whether it happened or not.

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[ConservativeStatement]

I think it was around the time of the 2004 Presidential election, I was around a group of young ones who were on a field trip. One student asked her teacher what the difference was between Republicans and Democrats. The teacher said “Democrats are for everybody, Republicans only like their own type.” I forget who I used but I cited an example (Cynthia McKinney or whoever) and said “....is a Republican? Who knew.”

[married21]

My feisty, smart, Godly, conservative son will be in 6th grade in public school next year. Wanna scoff at his beliefs, Ms. Indoctrinator? Bring it on!

Of course, I’m feeling extra confident these days because my shy 8th grade daughter put the school slut in her place a couple of days ago. If my daughter can send the roaches running back to the shadows, so can other good kids who attend public schools.

Parents need to help their kids know their beliefs and defend them. We point out the errors in what the teachers say, and the kids are learning to tell when a teacher is spewing her own opinion and not covering the actual lesson.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...mentioned some of the social & economic reasons why Hitler came to power.

That is simply ridiculous. Those are historical facts. Lessons to be learned from events leading up to WWII.

The act of firing a teacher for mentioning it to squelch such discourse is just as bad as what the teacher in the above article did.

[rdb3]

The “CONservative” base is no better, they changed candidates like the Pony Express changed horses. There is plenty of blame to go around for this irretrievable mess we find ourselves in.

Shhh...

We cannot criticize "principled" conservatives. Don't you know that they levitate and walk on water?

25 years ago, we had Ronald Reagan, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope.
Today we have Obama, no cash, and no hope!

If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.

Or you can get raw with these strings.

How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).

And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.

Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.

Do it!

[af_vet_rr]

Well, if we nominate Romney.......

You beat me too it...

[kcvl]

“martins email please”

Martin, Kristin M.

KMMartin1@fcps.edu

[kcvl]

Ms Martin’s email at KMMartin1@fcps.edu
cc: the Principal Linda Clifford LLClifford@fcps.edu

[Kaslin]

Conservative my foot. They are anything but. They are nothing but sore losers because their third parties and candidates don’t have any chances to ever get elected

[Kaslin]

Conservative my foot. They are anything but. They are nothing but sore losers because their third parties and candidates don’t have any chances to ever get elected

[RoosterRedux]

That has happened to me re: several friendships.

For many folks, liberal thinking is not so much an ideology as it is a symptom of a personality development/maturity dysfunction. Same for gays and lesbians.

That's why we get all this insanity about rainbows and skittles and solar power and windmills with libs...they are at a level of maturity that can't get beyond "make-believe."

[LomanBill]

Comrade Martin is a Useful Idiot.

 

"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.

 

It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.

 

The first stage being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.

 

Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion.  Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science.  Members of parliament, representatives of business circles.... "

 

--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov

--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2095202/posts

[Mad Dawgg]

"Well, if we nominate Romney......."

Nah we don't have to wait for that to make a judgement...

Just think back to 2008:

Any questions?

[LomanBill]

That's why we get all this insanity about rainbows and skittles...

 

...and Haircuts.  Don't forget Haircuts.

 

"The [my] only connection [to the Republican Party]is I'm registered as a Republican"

--Mitt RRRRRomney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbXdOCQQMs

[Elsie]

Teacher tells 6th grade class that ‘Republicans are stupid’

Hell!

We on FR have been saying that for a LONG time!

[LomanBill]

Just think back to 2008

[a fool in paradise]

Democrats lie, they have red diaper doper baby socialists in their ranks who smear the opposition with phony charges of racism and sexism, while using the b-word and the c-word to attack Sarah Palin and terms like Uncle Tom and race-traitor to describe people like Clarence Thomas.

Equal time.

[oh8eleven]

I remember one teacher many years back who during history class, mentioned some of the social & economic reasons why Hitler came to power.
He was fired over even mentioning it.
Gheeze, the crap you read on FR.

[Kaslin]

If that arrogant, lazy, lying pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave had been vetted, like McCain was he would have never been elected. And you know it

[ohioWfan]

Conservative my foot. They are anything but. They are nothing but sore losers because their third parties and candidates don’t have any chances to ever get elected

Exactly. Anti-Republicans come on the left and the right.

I shouldn't be surprised that there is so little outrage from them at what this teacher said, but for some reason it always smacks me in the face when their hatred for Republicans is so much stronger than their hatred for the evil on the left.

As a matter of fact, many of them agree with the left. Period.

"Rah! Rah! leftist teacher. You said Republicans are stupid, and you are right!"

It's still unbelieveable......

[JimRed]

I remember one teacher many years back who during history class, mentioned some of the social & economic reasons why Hitler came to power. He was fired over even mentioning it.

Seems to me that is history rather than politics. Although you can draw conclusions based on the similarities between the RATs behavior today and that of the Nazis in 30's Gemany. Maybe we can stop it before the killing starts.