Propaganda For Pupils: Teacher Tells 6th Graders ‘America’s Never Been Great’

Eric Scheiner | April 3, 2018
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A 12 year old middle school student has transferred out of the Henry County School District in Georgia after releasing an audio recording of a sixth-grade teacher giving an anti-Trump rant in class.

"When my president says let's Make America Great Again, when was he talking about?" Teacher Johnetta Benton is heard asking in a recording, later adding that Trump must mean when "[America] was great for Europeans."

"Because," Benton continues, "when it comes to minorities, America has never been great for minorities."

FOX5Atlanta reports:

Josie Orihuela, who is 12, recorded her teachers rant back on February 1. Josie said it was the first day of Black History Month and the class was supposed to watch a video, but instead, she said her teacher decided to talk about President Trump.

‘Maybe he's talking about the ‘30s when so and so,’ that's when I was like ‘Oh my goodness, my moms going to love this!’ Orihuela exclaimed.

In the audio, the teacher reportedly can be heard asking ‘When was America great? In the ‘60s with segregation? The ‘70s during Black Panther Movement? Or the 90's when police officers beat Rodney King.’

Later, she talked about immigration and students’ ancestors.

'The hardest thing to hear was that she told me, like personally, she looked directly at me, and like said ‘You killed millions of my people’ and then that was probably the part that hurt me the most because I knew I didn't, but then when she says that I’m like ‘Oh, my God. What’s wrong with me?

Henry County schools issued a statement which reads in part:

“…we do not condone the action taken by our teacher in this incident and will not tolerate the infusion of political bias into classroom lessons.

This isn’t the first time in recent days that Hampton Middle School has been in the news for political bias in classroom activities. A 7th grade social studies teacher recently assigned his students to write letters to Washington, D.C. politicians “to persuade” them for even “stricter gun laws.

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