A local woman said she received a threatening phone call after she talked publicly about a teacher accused of showing eight graders obscene Internet video clips in class.

Mandy Wilson, who talked with a Channel 48 news reporter Friday about West Limestone High School teacher Steve White, received the call at 8:11 p.m. the night her interview aired. Wilson’s daughter answered.

“Someone called and said ‘You need to stay out of Steve White’s (expletive),’”Wilson said. The caller, who Wilson said sounded like an adult male, also said either “You better watch your back,” or “watch your backyard.”

“We weren’t sure which word he used and our dogs are in the backyard, so we rushed out to check on them to see if anyone had hurt them,” Wilson said.

She reported the call to the Limestone County Sheriff’s Department, and a deputy made a two-page report on the incident, she said. Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely confirmed Wednesday a harassing communications complaint was filed.

The number that appeared on her Caller ID was the number of a pay phone at the Discount Food Mart on Salem Minor Hill Road at Alabama 99. The deputy promised to patrol the area near her home, she said.

Wilson said the threat only strengthened her resolve to speak about the case.

“I’m not going to shut up,” she said. “They’re not going to make me shut up. What he did was wrong.”

White, who is a Democratic candidate for the State District 4 House of Representatives, is under investigation by the Limestone County Board of Education following complaints from parents about e-mailed video clips shown in his eighth grade science class. White was reprimanded after he showed a clip from filmstripinternational.com, which is a slide show of images of George Bush accompanied by a song titled “A-hole.” The word is written on the video beneath images of the president and others in his administration.

Wilson said she decided to remove her daughter from West Limestone School and teach her at home because White called the students “idiots” and told them he hated teaching. She said she made Davis aware of the situation but took her daughter from school when no action was taken.

Another mother, who asked to remain anonymous because her child still attends the school, said she reported an incident to Davis during the last gubernatorial election in which White told students in his science class they would receive extra credit if they attended a rally for a Democratic candidate. The woman’s daughter thought the assignment unfair, so the woman complained to Davis, who agreed it was not appropriate to favor one political party. The student was then allowed credit for attending a Republican rally for Bob Riley.

Davis said last week that he did not remember the incident.

Wilson said she is not afraid to speak out because she no longer has children in the school system.

“I feel a lot of the parents are stuck because they do have children in the school,” she said. “They don’t want their children punished.”

White’s actions “crossed the line,” she said.

“People say with him being tenured, his job may be saved,” she said. “I still think he needs to understand they’re our children and we choose what they watch. He needs to go.”