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A Mariposa County High School staff member is under investigation, while a part-time faculty member at College of Sequoias is on administrative leave.
Parents and students up and down the Valley are blasting comments that seem to celebrate the death of Kirk. They say they’re inappropriate, no matter what your political beliefs are. “I don’t know if those teachers should be fired, but I want us all to agree that no authority figure should be condoning political violence,” said community member Stacy Potter.
Multiple Mariposa County parents angrily addressed the school board during its monthly meeting on Thursday. “A teacher who allegedly stated they were glad Charlie Kirk is dead and told “MAGA kids to go home and cry,” shared Jenni Kiser.
Parents say there’s no room for these comments in the classroom. “These comments sent a harmful message that individuals who share Charlie Kirk’s opinions or beliefs are somehow deserving of violence or death,” added Brittany Arrington.
The Mariposa County Unified School District sent parents a statement this week.
It reads in part:
“… we are currently investigating a complaint involving alleged comments made by a Mariposa County High School staff member.”
Over in Tulare County, a College of Sequoias student took a video of her biology teacher saying, “And I hope all of his family dies and their children and their grandchildren children and their grandchildren children, and their grandchildren children to eternity.”
The student who wants to remain anonymous says prior to pulling out her phone, the teacher told the class that he watched the assassination of Kirk on loop for an hour. “I just was very disgusted. I couldn’t even stay in the class. I walked out, and I was just brought to tears because as someone that watched the video and saw how terrible it was, it just made me so uncomfortable to see that someone could say something like that,” the student expressed.
She says this isn’t the first time he has shared his political views in class.
The College of Sequoias sent us a statement saying the part-time faculty member was placed on administrative leave, and a full-time employee has taken over the course.
“The school districts are going to have to take a look at the contract and see if the contract was violated in some way,” said Fresno-based Legal Analyst David Mugridge. He says whether these educators can be fired depends on multiple factors.
If their contracts don’t outline what they can or can’t say in an educational setting, he says the school could relieve a teacher for disrupting the classroom. But he says there’s little defense for encouraging violence.
“For me as a teacher, to go into a classroom and suggest that somebody deserves to die and his family should likewise die, all the way down to his dogs and his 10th generation. That’s inciting violence. And I don’t think any contract would protect somebody from saying that,” Mugridge explained.
YourCentralValley.com will continue to monitor these situations and whether these actions lead to termination.
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