Nov 11 2008
Parents of Girl in YouTube Video Defend Teacher
Over the weekend, Harris apologized to the girl’s parents, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Thompson and Angela Moore. She also apologized to their daughter and to the Cumberland County school system.
Moore said Harris has nothing to apologize for.
“She made a truth known,” Moore said Monday. “Our daughter knows what her dad does and is in support of her dad.”
Sgt. Thompson said he is angry, but not at Harris, whom he praised as a dedicated educator.
“Whoever put that clip together, I am very upset with,” Thompson said on Fayetteville gospel radio station WIDU-AM. “I’m just sickened by the thought that somebody would take a minor child to exploit their views on a political situation, the way they have.”
Thompson and Moore said the videotaped classroom discussion has been blown out of proportion by bloggers and the news media.
“After talking with my child, she didn’t have a problem with it,” Thompson said. “So I don’t see why anybody else should.”
Moore said she wishes Harris could teach her daughter for the rest of her schooldays.
So as I have been saying all week, this isn’t at all what it seemed. The girl’s parents are not upset and they think rather highly of Ms Harris evidently. People need to let this go and move on.
