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‘The Road to Hell Is Paved With Democrats’ Sign Has S.C. Teacher in Hot Water

Oct. 31, 2012 8:20am Erica Ritz

Teacher Laurie Humphrey Hangs Road to Hell is Paved With Democrats Sign in South Carolina Classroom

(Photo: WLTX)

A South Carolina teacher has reportedly become the most recent public educator to come under fire fore bringing politics into the classroom. According to WLTX, Laurie Humphrey has been temporarily removed from her position at a Dutch Fork high school pending an investigation over a sign reading “The Road to Hell Is Paved With Democrats” that she hung near her desk.

“We’re still investigating the issue we want to make sure we have all sides and make sure we don’t make any decisions in haste,” Mark Bounds, a spokesman for the school district, commented. “Our Human Resource department is looking at the situation and making sure the students are taken care of and that we’re fair to the teacher.”

However, in the tense weeks before the general election, the school seemingly made it very clear what was acceptable and what wasn’t.

The Huffington Post relates part of the school rules:

The board opposes those actions that transform the schools into arenas for political activity. Activities that substantially disrupt or materially interfere with school activities are prohibited. Prohibited activities include the distribution of any cards, fliers, pamphlets, brochures, signs, pins, badges or any other political paraphernalia espousing any political party or candidate at any time on any district property during regular school hours.

WLTX has more:

Humphrey teaches social studies and this is the first disciplinary action she has received in her fifteen years of teaching, according to The State. She has been at the Lexington-Richland 5 school district for 11 of those years.

Though Bounds added that “this was an example of extremely poor judgment on her part” and “in clear violation” of the school’s directives, there is apparently some question over whether or not the sign was part of a larger lesson on political campaigns.

However, this would hardly be the first time politics have seeped into the classroom. Earlier this month a Richmond teacher reportedly likened a student’s clothing to KKK apparel, and who can forget North Carolina’s Tonya Dixon-Neely, who told a boy he could be “arrested” for speaking badly about Obama? The “Mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama” children’s song has become something of a Republican catchphrase, and a new pro-Obama ad features children singing about what they consider to be Romney’s America, where “sick people just die” and “oil fills the sea” (though that technically didn’t happen in a classroom).

Bounds was unable to say whether Humphrey is being paid during the investigation, but remarked: “Being a teacher doesn’t take away your rights as a citizen. So, after hours on your own time we encourage teachers, we want them to be politically active, but they shouldn’t do it in a way that makes any student feel uncomfortable.”

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FEMALL
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:53am
Indeed. Succinctly genius.

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- HMNSC
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 9:05am
  Regardless of affiliation the classroom is no place for politics.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 9:26am
  What’s funny is she is conservative but she teaches social studies and that was probably the first subject injected into our schools for the purpose of indoctrinating children with socialism. Think about it.
  
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- drakk2010
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 10:00am
  The class room is no place for politics?…Are you kidding??? Try telling that to a UNION teacher…Liberal Teachers can teach about abortion and contraceptives, gay and lesbian sex positions, how wonderful communist countries are, hang photo’s of Karl Marx, excoriate the evils of the free market and evil capitalism, denounce the founding fathers and their principles, sing praises to obozo like he’s some kind of God….BUT hang a sign saying ‘The road to hell is paved with democrats’…THAT’S TOO POLITICAL??? Maybe the liberal school board is on a witch hunt for Conservative Teachers….
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 10:12am
  It is true, but like others have said, “leave the kids alone”. Just teach the kids reading, writing and arithmetic like you are supposed to. Our kids are stupid compared to those in many other countries.
  
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- edcoil
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 10:24am
  I like it. My SS teacher in the 70′s had a huge anti-Nixon poster on the wall.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 10:44am
  The sign itself is great..no question.
  But let’s get serious here…it’s time for teachers to get politics out of the classroom. Enough already! We didn’t like it when we saw videos of teachers making children sing “mm mm mm Barack Hussein Obama” and the numerous other propaganda exercises we saw them conduct using our children. We shouldn’t like this either, regardless of the sentiment expressed.
  Get the effing politics out of our classrooms and get them back on track to competing with their Indian and Chinese counterparts who are destroying them academically.
  Get the politics and the “social justice” idiocies out of our effing classrooms!
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 10:49am
  If she had said Obama Democrats, then she would have been factual. All she had to do was give them proof of his love for the teachings of Alinsky: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/obama-alinsky-love-song
  
  For those of you who do not know, in an interview with “Playboy”Alinsky praised hell:
  ALINSKY: … if there is an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to hell.
  PLAYBOY: Why?
  ALINSKY: Hell would be heaven for me. All my life I’ve been with the have-nots. Over here, if you’re a have-not, you’re short of dough. If you’re a have-not in hell, you’re short of virtue. Once I get into hell, I’ll start organizing the have-nots over there.
  PLAYBOY: Why them?
  ALINSKY: They’re my kind of people.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky
  
  IMO, there’s nothing wrong with teaching facts about a current POTUS in a high school SS class. Just don’t make it into a sign. I would have found that lesson fascinating.
  
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- dirigo
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 11:12am
  Are they kidding? No politics in the classroom! Obama is using children (child labor?) in his latest ads! I applaud this lady for standing up with her sign. Maybe she can teach parents how to home school their children for her next job:)
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 12:28pm
  It’s tough. I agree with her politics, but think she should be removed for putting the sign up. She’d be fine to discuss the differences, but not to push her politics.
  
  I know the other side does it, and it’s a culture war, but I still want to be the side that takes the high road.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 1:52pm
  As has been pointed out here often. Even ignorant individuals can get a teaching degree and certificate. Probably an individual who believes schools should be segregated again.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 1:54pm
  so erica you attempt at a fair presentation of this occurrence is to reference all the incidences on the other side. hows about just reporting one accurately and honestly
  
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- HuFlungDung
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 11:23pm
  A shame. Here a teacher is trying to teach the truth in school and it’s not welcome. God help us (because He isn’t going to help Dems).
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:53am
  WETHEPEOPLE have the right of expression…….WETHEPEOPLE also, have the right NOT to LISTEN or READ-IT or WATCH-IT!! Only the DEMOCRAT-COMMIES-SHARIA-COMPLIANT’S wanna CUT YOUR HEAD OFF when you don’t agree with them!
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:53am
Thanks much Laurie Humphrey for standing up and telling IT like it is!

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:57am
  Agreed.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:57pm
  Obama fixed the roads and now he is going to fix the bridges. There is going to be plenty of liberal traffic.
  
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mikenleeds
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:52am
it s true , if your a democrat and support democrat views , you will burn in hell i promise you that ,, democrats are very anti-god , they support homosexuals etc. etc.

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clinker
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:49am
Teach, this is wrong and you know it.

It’s ‘The Road to Hell is paved BY democrats’.

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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:56am
  ROFL. Thumbs up dude.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:58am
  Jesus Christ sits on the right hand of the Father, leaving only the left wing for Satan to approach the Throne of God to accuse Christians. Right wing conservative= on the side of Jesus. Left wing liberal =on the side of Satan.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 9:04am
  Clinker, ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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- DZ-015
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 9:31am
  The road to Hell is paved by Democrats with our tax money so as to credit Obama with creating more shovel ready jobs.
  
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- Sy Kosys
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 9:48am
  Almost forgot about The Road To Hell bill (HB 666) that Congress recently passed….
  
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- Female
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 9:49am
  Union employees of course!
  
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rl
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:47am
The biggest problem is the word DEMOCRATS…. Had it said republicans there would be NO PROBLEMS…

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- The_Knower
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:53am
  How do you know this?
  
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- watashbuddyfriend
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:55am
  Amen, RL!
  
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- jettson
  Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:14am
  That’s not right The road to hell is paved with DEMORATS They don’t care if they kil people to get there. NOBAMA in2012
  
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CWPrequired
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:40am
You go Girl!! Welcome to SC. Come on down and visit folks. We have concealed weapon permits too. Great beach, it’s rare we vote democrat. A right to work state. What else could you ask for.

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- Do Not Panic All is Well
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 9:06am
  Wonderful state, good people. Y’all hang in there, we got your back in Texas. Obama won’t be ripping jobs away from your great state after January.
  
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Zipit
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:37am
Poor judgement? Yeah, most definitely!!!! The truth……HELL YES!!!

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Seth Patriot
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:35am
The school should make sure that the left leaning classrooms ( most of them) are not doing similar things. The sign has no place in the classroom, but maybe the teacher was just trying to even things out. By the way, I am a former conservative teacher.

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- johnjamison
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:42am
  Maybe the teacher is trying to point out that Democrats are supposedly well intented in their destruction of our economy.
  
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- Capt_Gregg
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:48am
  Bingo!
  The teacher showed poor judgement in placing the sign in her classroom. Political discourse, posters, etc. unrelated to the curriculum have no place in classrooms. We complain about this when it favors the left, and should be equally upset when it favors the right.
  
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- mikem1969
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:49am
  You are correct, but we all know, and have all seen democrat, libeal progressive signs, chants, and songs all over left leaning schools with little or nothing at all bing done about it. So I can say that if the word democrat in this sign would have been republican instead, nothing would have happened to her. This is truely a double standard that needs to end. Politics needs to be takn out of schools or at least overed equaly from both sides in a class on politics.
  
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- R.A. Bullseye
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:56am
  Are you a former conservative or former teacher?
  
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- Common Sense 24
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 10:11am
  You sir, are a rarity.
  
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TwoLazy
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:34am
Lemme see here, a teacher, obviously leaning to the right, has a sign slighting the left side and is in trouble now. But a teacher or teachers can have a classroom full of mush brained 2nd graders singing the tributes to O and that’s OK … ahhh yes balance is everything.

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blanco5
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:33am
No wonder—b/c it’s not “democrats”–it’s “demonrats”. Geesh, get it right!

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- Mr. Smarty
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 9:52am
  Yes, it’s not Democrats, it’s Demonic Demoncrats, paving the road to hell with good intentions. In fact, it appears that they have just about finished their road building project. The chief engineer of the “Road To Hell” project, The Great Obamasiah, just needs four more years to finish the job.
  
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baho54
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:33am
I think this teacher should be commended for speaking the truth! I’d like to nominate her as “teacher of the year”. Makes me kind of proud to be from the state of South Carolina.

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Eastinfection
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:33am
LOL….

a bit much for the classroom, maybe?

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RepubliCorp
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:33am
“The Road to Hell Is Paved With Democrats” Good One

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LovinUSA
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:33am
She should have not created that in the school room, In stead, she should have had it pasted on a billboard over a well traveled highway.

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starman70
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:32am
WOW!!! A teacher with real sense. I bet the teachers unions come down on her like flies on doo-doo. She will be ostracised and harassed and will probably never find another teaching job again. Had it been a sign for ODUMMER, she would come off clean.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:32am
Its just funny to me at the moment. Her sign is saying the same thing that I have been saying for years. But, at the same time I feel her students would have been better served had she put the sign in her front yard. Just as I have disagreed with so many of the educators that we have read about here, and seen in the recent news, there was no need for any of them to indoctrinate their students. This has nothing to do with educations and distracts from her given mission for each working day.

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- grimmster
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:42am
  RJ,i agree, stop trying to “brainwash” our children,no matter what side you are on politically,how about educate them……..with the truth.Although i must say, this sign does speak the truth.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:51am
  In a perfect world there wouldn’t be any political statements of any kind in the class room,left or right.
  We’ve seen the left indoctrinate kids for many many years and nothing is done to stop it so the teacher shouldn’t be sanctioned for her sign either, It looks to me like she’s teaching a valuable lesson about the character of democrats in general.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 10:46am
  Agreed RJJING…it’s time to stop ALL teachers from inposing their politics and “social justice” idiocies on our children at school.
  We didn’t like “mm mm mm Barack Hussein Obama” and we shouldn’t like this attempt to indoctrinate either.
  
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Pantloadian
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:31am
Indoctrination either way is bad.

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- DIR
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 11:22am
  I might generally agree. Sometimes it is necessary to fight fire with fire. though. I believe the time has long since come. Liberalism is burning down this country. Many schools are nothing more than socialist indoctrination camps. Kids need some opposing views. School is there to teach and fortunately or unfortunately there are some hard realities that need to be taught. Debunking socialism and socialists, which has become a part of liberal/democrat programming, unfortunately needs to be done scholastically. Schools have become liberal playgounds.
  
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Southerner01
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:30am
How dare someone interject something conservative into the bastion of liberal brainwashing, the public school system.

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scrapadapolis
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:30am
If you teach islamic handsigns in school thats ok,If you instruct your students to plan a terrorist attack thats ok.If you degrade you students with racial slurs thats ok.But GOD forbid freedom of speach has zero tolerance..

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skiz
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:29am
The Left brings politics into the classroom on a daily basis. I think this teachers statement is right on the money! The democrat party has been taken over by communist, socialst radicals. It is a FACT! The PROOF is the dems platform, at the convention, taking GOD out of it. Then the exclamation point was the BOOOS when GOD was put back in. If you are a Christian and still stand with these people you need you read your bible again. GOD IS WATCHING!

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- rEt_fiELdoP
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 10:14am
  @ SKIZZ
  
  Please share specifically where does aligning oneself with a democrat go against social justice issues biblically and how that is a bad thing for republicans or independents?
  
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- Wisdom7
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 3:16pm
  @rEt_fiELdoP
  
  I don’t believe Skiz said anything about it being bad for Republicans. He said he didn’t see how anyone could remain a Democrat as a Christian, and I agree. As far as biblical issues one can simply point to the Democrat stances on homosexuality, abortion, anti-family, and so on. If you would like me to point out exactly where in the Bible these things are mentioned, let me know or you know…you could just read it yourself.
  
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commonsenseguy
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:29am
she was not the first,she is the first to be ganged up on,because she is not a commie loving democrat,how about all those teachers who have indoctrinated kids in chicago, new york and else where,o that’s right as long as you are a democrat, it is just fine, one thing is for sure,she is right,the road to hell is paved with democrats and commies.

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lunky
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:28am
As much as I agree with the teacher, I have to also be fare and state her opinion needs to remain out of the school just as it should be for the Obama supporters making the kids sing pro Obama songs. We can’t complain about them and then state its ok for her to do this just because it supports what we may believe.

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HKS
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:27am
Politics in the classroom, really. Classrooms are politics, liberals have turned them into incubators for their silly cause. The only problem here is the truth, they can’t handle it. “Remember Benghazi”

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bcope01
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:27am
Great sign, maybe not in school, but…still a great sign.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:54am
  I agree. It is a great sign & very true. It doesn’t belong in the classroom. I can’t see her being fired. Not with all the cr/p the Democrats have pulled. For example, coaching grade schoolers to sing paeons of praise to Obama
  
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jettson
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 8:26am
Well Shes right. Throw them all out. NOBAMA in 2012

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