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MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Two educators are nether scrutiny aft they made comments successful their classrooms, allegedly supporting the decease of governmental activistic Charlie Kirk.
A Mariposa County High School staff member is nether investigation, portion a part-time module subordinate astatine College of Sequoias is connected administrative leave.
Parents and students up and down the Valley are blasting comments that look to observe the decease of Kirk. They accidental they're inappropriate, nary substance what your governmental beliefs are. "I don't cognize if those teachers should beryllium fired, but I privation america each to hold that nary authorization fig should beryllium condoning governmental violence," said assemblage subordinate Stacy Potter.
Multiple Mariposa County parents angrily addressed the schoolhouse committee during its monthly gathering connected Thursday. "A teacher who allegedly stated they were gladsome Charlie Kirk is dormant and told "MAGA kids to go location and cry," shared Jenni Kiser.
Parents accidental there's nary country for these comments successful the classroom. "These comments sent a harmful connection that individuals who stock Charlie Kirk's opinions oregon beliefs are someway deserving of unit oregon death," added Brittany Arrington.
The Mariposa County Unified School District sent parents a connection this week.
It reads successful part:
"... we are presently investigating a ailment involving alleged comments made by a Mariposa County High School unit member."
Over successful Tulare County, a College of Sequoias student took a video of her biology teacher saying, "And I anticipation each of his household dies and their children and their grandchildren children and their grandchildren children, and their grandchildren children to eternity."
The pupil who wants to stay anonymous says anterior to pulling retired her phone, the teacher told the class that helium watched the assassination of Kirk connected loop for an hour. "I conscionable was precise disgusted. I couldn't adjacent enactment successful the class. I walked out, and I was conscionable brought to tears due to the fact that arsenic idiosyncratic that watched the video and saw however unspeakable it was, it conscionable made maine truthful uncomfortable to spot that idiosyncratic could accidental thing similar that," the pupil expressed.
She says this isn't the archetypal clip helium has shared his governmental views successful class.
The College of Sequoias sent america a connection saying the part-time module subordinate was placed connected administrative leave, and a full-time worker has taken implicit the course.
"The schoolhouse districts are going to person to instrumentality a look astatine the declaration and spot if the declaration was violated successful immoderate way," said Fresno-based Legal Analyst David Mugridge. He says whether these educators tin beryllium fired depends connected aggregate factors.
If their contracts don't outline what they tin oregon can't accidental successful an acquisition setting, helium says the schoolhouse could relieve a teacher for disrupting the classroom. But helium says there's small defence for encouraging violence.
"For maine arsenic a teacher, to spell into a schoolroom and suggest that idiosyncratic deserves to dice and his household should likewise die, each the mode down to his dogs and his 10th generation. That's inciting violence. And I don't deliberation immoderate declaration would support idiosyncratic from saying that," Mugridge explained.
YourCentralValley.com will proceed to show these situations and whether these actions pb to termination.
