DESPICABLE: Teacher bullies 9-year-old girl for deer hunting: “Killing animals is not what we do!”
The problem of left-wing public school teachers and administrators bullying school children for thinking and acting like normal Americans seems to be a continuing one.
Two years ago Wisconsin talk-radio host Vicki McKenna, in a story which quickly went national, outed Wisconsin school principal Melissa A. Horn for bullying an 11-year-old boy, threatening to expel him for bringing a “virtual gun” to his virtual (i.e., home) school. His offense? Displaying a tiny picture of a gun, with an American flag, on the computer which he used only at home — an image viewable by no other student. See blog posts here, here, and here.
Melissa A. Horn
About a month ago, Vicki’s colleague Mark Belling (the godfather of Wisconsin conservative talk radio) outed a Wisconsin public school teacher, Courtney Hiers, for bullying her entire class, via a public Facebook post in which she called her students “racist” for rejecting her liberal whitewash of Islam.
Now Vicki has outed a Ohio public school teacher for bullying a nine-year-old girl, Domonique Yatsko. Domonique’s offense? Proudly displaying a photo (containing no gore), on her sweatshirt, of her posing with a buck she had shot on her first day of deer hunting. Specifically, this photo:
Domonique Yatsko
As Vicki has previously urged, to have any hope of combating the malignant leftism which is entrenched in much of the public educational system, and to have any success in deterring public school employees from bullying children who are raised in conservative households, conservatives need to “name names” — to publicly identify, and castigate, the offenders.
The name of the bullying teacher at Hinkley Elementary in Hinkley Township, Ohio, is Hanna Copa.
Hannah Copa
Ms. Copa is in her first year of teaching, on a one-year contract. In 2011 she graduated from Elyria Catholic High School, an elite institution in rural Ohio. She obtained a B.S. degree in early childhood education from Ashland University, having apparently completed most of her college credits at Lorain County Community College.
When Domonique showed up at school wearing her sweatshirt, proud of bagging a buck in her very first day of deer hunting, Ms. Copa reportedly shamed the girl, causing students at the school to ridicule her, telling the girl: “killing animals is not what we do.” After being ridiculed for her sweatshirt, Domonique threw it in the trash when she returned home.
Neither Ms. Copa nor the principal, James Carpenter, apologized for this bullying of a young girl for having engaged in a legal recreational activity, even after Domonique’s mother, Heidi, pressed the matter. The principal’s defense? “We don’t have dead animals in school.”
James Carpenter
For those interested in Vicki’s take on this story, here’s a clip of her entire discussion (under six minutes) in her Madison show yesterday afternoon:
As Vicki mentioned, her segment was based on an excellent article in Outdoor News written by Mike Moore (@ScribeMoore).
The Medina Gazette has a followup article by Halee Heironimus (@haleeautumn) who reports that the school superintendent, Catherine Aukerman, concedes that Domonique’s sweatshirt did not violate the school’s dress code.
Catherine Aukerman
It appears that neither the teacher nor the school principal has apologized to Domonique, even though her mother Heather has made clear: “I was looking for an apology for my child, that’s all.”
For those interested in contacting the teacher, the principal, and/or the superintendent to urge that the teacher and principal issue a public, written apology to Domonique, here is their contact information (of course, if you write or call them, you should be as professional and respectful in tone as you would expect them to be in dealing with you or your child):
Teacher: Hannah Copa: [email protected]
Principal: James Carpenter: [email protected];
(330) 239-1901.
Superintendent: Catherine Aukerman:
[email protected]; (330) 239-1901, ext. 1217.
Also, contact information for the Board of Education is here. The contact information for its president, Dr. Norman Christopher, is here.