Totally unacceptable

Before the recent US election, fifth grade teacher Diatha Harris decided to ask her students who they would vote for and why. While I am not even sure if this is appropriate, it gets a lot worse. Making the rounds throughout the classroom, she ridicules those students that put their support behind John McCain.

The classroom discussion begins with Harris asking the class who they support for president. When two students say McCain, she responds with “Oh Lord” and “Oh Jesus.”

When one girl says that she will support McCain because her parents do as well, Harris moves on to another girl who says that she will support Obama becuase he will end the war in Iraq, a “senseless” war according to their teacher. Harris then targets the McCain supporter again and asks her what she know about Iraq. When the little girl cannot answer, Harris has this to say:

And by the way the person that you’re picking for president said that our troops could stay in Iraq for another hundred years if they need to. So that means that your daddy could stay in the military for another hundred years.

After the exchange, the little girl is so embarassed that she doesn’t respond. The little girl was totally intimidated and essentially bullied by her teacher, a person of trust, infront of her entire class.

Conveniently enough, the exchange was captured by a Swedish television documentary crew. You can catch the video here: