{{In USA, an elementary school teacher in south central Louisiana November 7, allegedly told her class of fourth graders that she was \u201cattending America\u2019s funeral\u201d because Barack Obama won the presidential election.}}<\/p>\n
Students say the teacher, clad in all black that day, also said the United States will turn into a \u201cnew China\u201d under Obama, KATC reports.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe made the comment that since Michelle Obama is first lady and with the meal plan she has, the kids are gonna look like toothpicks in a few months,\u201d parent Lindsey Shello told KATC.<\/p>\n
Shello\u2019s nine-year-old son is a student in the teacher\u2019s class. She was outraged about the episode, and that the teacher had vented her feelings on Facebook.<\/p>\n
The teacher, who is never named in the KATC report, reportedly requested a personal meeting with Shello. The teacher also cautioned Shello that her son might be embellishing the story.<\/p>\n
However, other kids are apparently telling the same story. Another parent, Chassatey Jackson, says her children have related the same basic account, KATC reports.<\/p>\n
Both parents agree that teachers should avoid expressing political opinions in fourth-grade classrooms.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer personal opinion needs to remain her personal opinion. She doesn\u2019t need to push it on the kids,\u201d said Shello, according to KATC.<\/p>\n
Parents have reportedly contacted the principal at Delcambre Elementary as well as the local school board.<\/p>\n
This incident certainly isn\u2019t the first time in recent memory that a schoolteacher has been accused of interjecting personal political beliefs into the classroom.<\/p>\n
Just last month, Linda White, an eighth-grade science teacher in Clinton, Mississippi, allegedly told her students of her belief that Obama is a Muslim and, for that reason, he should not serve a second term. <\/p>\n
White also reportedly told students she supports Romney because he is a \u201cgood Christian,\u201d according to WJTV, the CBS affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi.<\/p>\n
White has since resigned her teaching post.<\/p>\n
Earlier in October, Lynette Gaymon, a geometry teacher at Charles Carroll High School in Philadelphia reportedly ridiculed sophomore Samantha Pawlucy for wearing a pro-Romney shirt to school and told Pawlucy to remove it. <\/p>\n
Gaymon allegedly called Carroll High a \u201cDemocratic school,\u201d reports Philly.com. Gaymon, who is black, is also said to have suggested that the shirt was comparable to shirt supporting the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n
In the aftermath, Gaymon, the geometry teacher, reportedly received death threats, according to Philly.com. Pawlucy transferred to a different school.<\/p>\n
In May of 2012, Tanya Dixon-Neely, a social studies teacher at North Rowan High School in Spencer, North Carolina, told a student in her class that he could be arrested for criticizing Obama, and that people had been arrested for criticizing President George W. Bush. <\/p>\n
A student captured Dixon-Neely\u2019s rant on hidden video, which later went viral on YouTube.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me tell you something,\u201d Dixon-Neely says in the video, \u201cyou will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n
The local school board suspended Dixon-Neely, but with pay, according to WBTV, the CBS television affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
In 2009, a fairly disturbing video emerged on YouTube showing about 20 children at B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, New Jersey singing pro-Obama anthems.<\/p>\n
One song the children in New Jersey sang quotes directly from the spiritual \u201cJesus Loves the Little Children,\u201d reports Fox News. <\/p>\n
However, the lyrics replace Jesus with Obama: \u201cHe said red, yellow, black or white\/All are equal in his sight. Barack Hussein Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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