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Home Front: Culture Wars
Sixth-grade teacher delivers 15-minute rant claiming Trump's MAGA slogan is a call to bring segregation back
2018-04-02
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Student Josie Orihuela recorded the classroom rant in Georgia last month

  • Social studies teacher Johnetta Benton was teaching Black History Month lesson

  • Castigated 'Make America Great Again' as slogan advocating for segregation

  • Told the white students in the class to 'look at your ancestry' of killing 'millions'

  • Occurred at same middle school that tasked kids with writing anti-gun essay
Posted by:Fred

#18  I know a pretty reliable guy who insists he was permanently banned from a McDonalds (by the manager) for wearing a MAGA hat.

Sounds like he got "segregated."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2018-04-02 21:49  

#17  If I were a principle I'd have cams in every classroom. End that I 'didn't do nothin nonsense.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-04-02 14:23  

#16  Daughter and her husband are both teachers; they are not allowed to video/audio the class as it violates the students' privacy. Says nothing about protecting them against ramped-up charges.

Needs to be a 2 way street.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2018-04-02 14:21  

#15  its long time past each classroom have the same

Many school buses have em. They are mostly to capture student passenger misbehavior but I believe in a couple instances bus drivers have been punished as a result of security cam footage (shouldn't it be bittage in the digital era?) Off course, just like cop cams, if you have classroom cams, they will conveniently mysteriously "cut out" at the strangest times. And if they don't, there will be many, many school district personnel rules and union shop rules that will still prevent use of the footage.

All that said, yes. Cams everywhere the taxpayer dime is being spent (I'm looking at you, FBI)
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-04-02 12:24  

#14  Parental supervision -- each schoolkid to wear a bodycam that parents may (if they wish) monitor during the kid's time at school. Might be a remedy for bullying too.

Somehow, I don't like it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-04-02 11:59  

#13  Johnetta Benton with her daughter.
Posted by: 3dc   2018-04-02 10:51  

#12  Parental supervision -- each schoolkid to wear a bodycam that parents may (if they wish) monitor during the kid's time at school. Might be a remedy for bullying too.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-04-02 10:46  

#11  then its long time past each classroom have the same.

I like that and have it public where you can connect to a camera in your kid's classroom...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-04-02 10:40  

#10  ...on that thought, if cops gotta wear cams with sound, then its long time past each classroom have the same. Like the copcams subject to Freedom of Information release.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-04-02 10:31  

#9  Any bets on who gets punished here - the teacher or the student ( for an 'illegal recording')? I got $5 on the student getting at least a five day suspension.
Posted by: Raj   2018-04-02 10:09  

#8  What the heck has happened to Georgia?

Henry County abuts Clayton and Dekalb counties, which abut Fulton County and the City of Atlanta. Henry, Douglas, Fayette, and other counties surrounding Fulton have historically been conservative, republican enclaves. That is all changing.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-04-02 08:30  

#7   same middle school that tasked kids with writing anti-gun essay

What the heck has happened to Georgia?
Posted by: AlanC   2018-04-02 08:19  

#6  I’m sure MAGA also means going to war against Germany and Japan again. .

It’s hard to tell if these people are misleading people about an innocent and popular slogan or if they are just stupid. Or both.
Posted by: Rjschwarz   2018-04-02 07:52  

#5  ...but, but, but he's (technically) a Republican. Teach needs lessons on who actually backed slavery and instituted segregation.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-04-02 07:16  

#4  Well, at least she realizes that affirmative action, etc. make America less.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-04-02 04:13  

#3  Fire that.

Not a teacher.
Posted by: newc   2018-04-02 01:17  

#2  Yep. The moronic commie infiltration for the indoctrination of our public schools is complete.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056   2018-04-02 00:44  

#1  I thought the BLM movements and others movements in the universities want segregation...

I'm confused.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-04-02 00:26  

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