I’ve seen a lot of teachers wearing Obama buttons in Durham schools, but I figured that was the extent of their politicking. Maybe it was in Durham, but in other areas of the state it wasn’t. Check out this footage from a Swedish Finnish Swedish TV station and ask yourself why you have to learn about things like this from the foreign media. The YouTube page identifies the teacher as Diantha Harris, an Asheville teacher. It doesn’t ID the school, however. A transcript is here:
UPDATE: Asheville Superintendent Allen Johnson says Harris has not been employed by the school system since 2004, so it could be the Swedish Finnish Swedish TV station misidentified the school system.
UPDATE: She now works in Fayetteville, or at least in the Cumberland County system, according to ABC 13, WLOS in Asheville, which makes sense with the Army dependents in her class.
UPDATE: It was a Finnish TV station, apparently. That’s what I had originally as I was first writing this post but I thought I had seen on one of the links that it was a Swedish station, not Finnish, so I changed it to Swedish. Should have left it.
UPDATE: It’s Swedish. I was right. To confirm, I put some of the subtitles through an online translator and chose “detect language.” It translated the subtitles perfectly and identified the language as Swedish, not Finnish. Here is the Web site of the TV station. It has an “se” suffix on its URL, which means Sweden.
