Teacher placed on leave after allegedly telling students she wants to bring back slavery.

[RandySF]

A California middle school history teacher has reportedly been placed on leave after students said she made racist comments, including calling for the return of slavery.

According to a report from The Los Angeles Times, this marks the second time in two months that the teacher, whose name has not been made public, has been disciplined for such remarks. She was previously put on leave in late October.

The unnamed teacher works at the Space and Aeronautics Gateway to Exploration Magnet Academy in Palmdale, Calif., where the L.A. Times says about 70 percent of the school population is composed of Latino students followed by black students.

Students say the teacher is a supporter of President Trump, displaying Trump memorabilia in the classroom and praising his proposed border wall with Mexico. Students also allege she said she would "bring back slavery" and gave them assignments having to do with immigration and Trump.

Palmdale School District's assistant superintendent of human resources said the teacher has been placed on leave and an independent investigator has been hired to probe the allegations. Mental health resources have also been offered to students.




https://thehill.com/homenews/news/475573-teacher-placed-on-leave-after-allegedly-telling-students-she-wants-to-bring

[CaptYossarian]

1. It's nice that mental health resources have been offered to students.

Did they miss someone?

[CurtEastPoint]

8. BINGO! My VERY first thought, too!

[Blue_true]

10. The teacher does appear to have some sort of mental illness.

Even if she is a hate filled asshole, no rational person does what she did.

[lpbk2713]

2. Where do they find these people?

Obviously people with the same beliefs must be in the decision
making process when it comes to hiring new employees.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The original article in the LA Times offers even more detail -

this teacher is a sick, terrible person who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near children.

The teacher, who has not been identified, also said she would torture students and made comments about eating human flesh, classmates told school officials...

At a news conference Thursday, students said the teacher’s classroom is covered in Trump memorabilia, including posters and mugs. Her assignments veer into political views, the students say, citing one example in which the teacher asked the class to underline all phrases having to do with Mexicans, immigration and Donald Trump in a news article about the U.S.-Mexico border...

Another student, Miguel Gonzales, said the teacher failed him because of his race, even though he completed all class assignments. His mother requested a change in his class schedule. He said the history teacher would give him “the death stare” while walking down the hallways at school.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-20/teacher-accused-of-saying-she-wants-to-bring-back-slavery-placed-on-leave-again

[Hekate]

16. Absolutely sick. She belongs nowhere near any child, ever.

I hope they yank her license permanently.

[Karadeniz]

4. She must be smart, but not where it counts.

[brush]

5. Wonder if she'd volunteer to be a slave?

[EndlessWire]

6. What is wrong with such people??

Honestly, what is it about Trump that causes people to lose their minds? Does she not like having a job? Does she presume that Trump followers are going to stand up for her? I wouldn't have my kid in her classroom.

Has she found some magic way of getting paid leave? Surely she can figure out that this will not end well for her? Oh, wait, it already did work out for her once.

Boy, these people are stupid. Everyone knows, "First they came for the Jews..." She's a teacher, she's female, and she'd be one of the first to go.

What in bloody hell is wrong with her?? Parents, time to permanently fire this teacher, who is teaching your children to hate.

[UniteFightBack]

7. This lady needs to be emptying garbage pails somewhere instead of being around children in any

capacity.

[Afromania]

9. It's good honest work, she doesn't deserve to empty garbage pails.

She deserves to be thrown out on the curb next to them wondering what her next career is going to be.

[jberryhill]

21. Actually, my first job was doing both

My first job in high school was working after school as a janitor in a private elementary school.

It was challenging, but rewarding work, to sometimes walk into chaos and set it all straight.

[jpak]

11. Dump her on the other side the Wall with a MAGAT hat on

See how she likes it.

[stopdiggin]

12. IF the allegations made by students are accurate

this lands at least partially on the school and administrators. WHAT administrator thinks it's just just peachy that a classroom be sporting all sorts of Trump paraphernalia? (quite apart from the heavily ethnic student population) Warning bells anyone?

[jberryhill]

13. Why are 70% of the Latino students followed by black students?

That part sounds pretty weird all by itself.

The unnamed teacher works at the Space and Aeronautics Gateway to Exploration Magnet Academy in Palmdale, Calif., where the L.A. Times says about 70 percent of the school population is composed of Latino students followed by black students.

Does it have something to do with the magnets?

[Hekate]

15. California has a massive Latino population, that's all.

Unless you're making a comment about the sentence structure -- I wasn't sure.

[jberryhill]

17. On first read

...I found the sentence disturbing.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. have you no one following you?

You're making me nervous.

[jberryhill]

19. Well... there is this one DUer...

But I haven't heard from my little rain cloud lately.

[Codeine]

20. Ha!

That took me a minute.

[jberryhill]

22. Well, I saw it right away

Makes you wonder about the other 30%

Are the other 30% non-Latino, or what?

But how is it even possible for 70% of students to be followed by other students of any race? Because unless there are a few conga lines, then you couldn't possible have more than 50% of the students followed by the other half of the students.

This kind of thing happens to me frequently.

[Hekate]

23. Well, if you're talking conga lines! Doing a quick check, the Los Angeles conga line would lead off

...with 47.5% Latino, 29.4% white, 10.7% Asian, and 9.8% African American. "Other" is 25%.

I don't have time just now to nail down more recent figures, except that for the state as a whole, Latino and white appear to be almost exactly equal by now, at about 38% each.

I love California in some regards. This is one of them. That teacher needs to leave her profession and leave the state.

[rockfordfile]

14. How come the teacher wasn't fired sooner? With that un-American trump crap?