SW PA: Student Offended By Teacher's Aide's Obama Remark

ALLISON PARK (KDKA) ― A teacher's aide in a vocational school in the North Hills faces disciplinary action after he allegedly made offensive remarks about President-elect Barack Obama.

The student - a 16-year-old girl - told her parents that an aide at the AW Beattie Career Center on Babcock Blvd. in Allison Park yelled, among other things, that Obama was going to be shot, our flag would be changed to the KFC flag, and the National Anthem would be changed to "Moving On Up."

The student's mother - Mara Gilligan - told KDKA TV that her daughter is bi-racial and she was deeply disturbed by the comments.

Gilligan said that Beattie's administrative director sent her an e-mail, stating that the aide who made the comments would be suspended, pending further investigation, and that he would be disciplined appropriately.

http://kdka.com/local/teacher.Barack.Obama.2.861269.html

Then the local talk host this morning on the radio affiliate (about the only non-wingnut on the station) was talking about calls he's had with parents in 3 local high schools whose black kids have been beaten up by racist white students because they dared to be happy about Obama's victory. Including one incident where a black student overturned a table when the "N" word was thrown around in a classroom, another table was overturned by white student(s) breaking a female student's toe. Then 9 "brave" white football players that night broke in the front door of his house and beat him.

Yep, John Murtha was right about this area.

I want to see any teacher who engages in crap like this fired! Their teaching credentials pulled! And any students prosecuted to the full extent of the law or the school rules!

And like schools bring in WWII and other veterans to talk to students. Sometimes Holocaust survivors. It's time the brutal racial history of this country is taught throughly including bringing in those who experienced the Civil Rights movement to talk to the student body and teachers.

Do not generalize a whole are like, like republicans do, unless you want to be told you are behaving like one.

This area is racist! All you have to do is listen, read the letters to the editor and hear the callers to talk radio. This talk show host - Marty Griffin - who I'm not even particulary fond of but whom I admire for taking this on (but he really needs to take on his collegues as well) is getting a ton of hate email from listeners.

Perhaps more than not, but you still cannot discount those who are; in particular the principal of that school. If he/she were racist, they would not have punished the TA who said it.

By generalizing a whole area you discount those who would stand beside you and fight against such behavior. That is all I am saying.

"And like schools bring in WWII and other veterans to talk to students. Sometimes Holocaust survivors. It's time the brutal racial history of this country is taught throughly including bringing in those who experienced the Civil Rights movement to talk to the student body and teachers."

Most people behave in that manner because of ignorance. They have been taught by their family to have these racists attitudes.

Education would go a long way.

Instructional Aide positions. We must not put up with this B.S. I'm sending an e-mail to Allison Park now.