Former President Donald Trump waves to cheering fans as he prepares to provide commentary for a boxing event headlined by a bout between former heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield and former MMA star Vitor Belfort, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, in Hollywood, Fla. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell
A middle school in California removed a history teacher who said Donald Trump is still president.
The teacher also claimed President Joe Biden's son Hunter "was having sexual intercourse with his own niece."
The teacher has expressed "deep remorse" for the remarks she made in class, the VC Star reported.
A history teacher in California has been removed from her job after she told her students that Donald Trump is still president.
The teacher, who has not been identified by name, also made claims about President Joe Biden's son Hunter and the COVID-19 vaccine.
"Hunter Biden, for example, is doing deals with China and Ukraine where he was funneling money illegally. He also had child pornography on his laptop. He was having sexual intercourse with his own niece," the teacher, who worked for Anacapa Middle School, said on the recording, according to CBS New York.
"If you have a baby in the hospital, they don't want to give it back if you're not vaccinated," the teacher said on the recording. "This is a complete power control threat."
It's unclear whether the teacher is still employed by Ventura Unified, the district that oversees Anacapa.
An eighth-grade student told his mother after class with the history teacher that he'd never be vaccinated against the coronavirus, CBS New York reported. Then he asked her if she knew that Trump was still president of the United States.
"I mean, why? Why does that need to be said in this classroom full of children," the mother asked, according to CBS New York. "I trusted her to teach him the facts about history and she went off on this rant like a preacher on a pulpit."
Ventura Unified did not immediately return Insider's request for comment.
But in a statement to the Ventura County Star, a district spokesperson said the school launched an investigation into the incident after receiving the recording of the teacher on October 18.
Spokesperson Marieanne Quiroz told the Star that the district "does not condone the non-instructionally related discussion" in the classroom.
The teacher has expressed "deep remorse" for the remarks she made in class, the Star reported.
But parents say that's not enough. The mother of the eighth-grader who now fears getting vaccinated against the coronavirus says her child and her husband have a damaged relationship because of the teacher's comments.
His father questioned what the eighth-grader learned in school, and the son said he believed his teacher. "When he first got in the car and said, 'Dad, teachers know everything. She's right, dad. You're wrong.' He's damaged. He's hurt. He's scared. He doesn't trust his parents now. He thinks we lied to him," the mom told CBS New York.
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ayoungad on November 8th, 2021 at 04:27 UTC »
She regrets that she lost her job, not that she said it.
FenrirIII on November 8th, 2021 at 04:22 UTC »
Our society is broken. Naive people are fed a steady diet of misinformation because there is always someone profiting off it. I wish that the criminalization of purposeful misinformation wasn't a slippery slope to fascism.
Fuck Facebook.
Fuck Twitter.
Fuck Reddit.
Fuck Rupert Murdock.
And fuck the Republican party.
radiantwave on November 8th, 2021 at 04:18 UTC »
And this is why tenure sucks... My wife is a teacher and the stories I hear from her weekly blow my mind. If my employees did half the stuff the teachers at he's school get away with, I would be allowed to fire them WITH cause. ... But tenured teachers? Nope.
These are some Examples of things other teachers have done at my wife's school.
Example 1: leaves a classroom of students alone to go to IKEA to pick up some furniture.
Example 2: emails kids to tell them that they aren't doing anything in class today so attendance is optional.
Example 3: Spends a whole year teaching a foreign language to students by giving word search puzzles... Grades no homework or tests and then grades them at the end of each quarter based on whatever grade she feels the student deserves.
Example 4: was out all last year teaching remotely, even when the rest of the teachers came back. The school had to pay a sub to sit in her classroom while she taught remotely. At least this one eventually quit on her own.
Cannot fire any of them... because they are tenured.