A furious Southern California high school teacher who freaked out in a classroom over a student wearing a hat in support of President-elect Donald Trump has been placed on leave.
The Chino Valley Unified School District placed the English teacher on leave after a recording of his rant surfaced, KCAL-TV reported Wednesday.
KTTV-TV said the outbursts from the “popular teacher” at Chino High School came the day after last week’s presidential election.
Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow at the American Culture Project, posted snippets of the teacher’s outbursts on X.
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The teacher said in another clip, “I’m pissed, people voting for a freaking rapist, and I’m pissed off” before adding, “I don’t care, fire the hell out of me. I’m fighting for my daughter, my nieces, their rights.”
The teacher is heard in another clip hollering to “turn it off and … go back to your freaking seat now! Go!” Immediately afterward, the teacher is heard speaking — presumably on a phone or intercom, “Can you send security up, please? … I have a boy who has a Trump hat on, and I’m not gonna tolerate it today, bye bye.”
In that same clip, the teacher then appears to speak to a student: “I don’t care if you have a Harris hat or a Trump hat, you’re outta here. You know better. Tell [Principal John] Miller, ‘I should have the right to vote for a rapist and a child molester,’ go for it, go for it. I don’t give a F!”
In another clip — in which he seems to be out of breath — the teacher snaps at another student, “Excuse me! What’s wrong with me?”
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Students stage a walkout
KCAL said dozens of Chino High School students left their classrooms Wednesday during their second and third periods to support their teacher, whom they hadn’t seen since the incident.
“The district policy is that you are not allowed to wear hats in class, and it is required of a student to remove them in class,” one of the protesting students, Bridget Moore, told KCAL. “The student refused to do so.”
KCAL said the school district confirmed that hats aren’t permitted in classrooms.
However, Chino Valley Unified School District board president Sonja Shaw told KTTV previously that while the school has a dress code, it refers to indecent exposure and hate language — and that a Trump hat “is not out of code.”
“We had many students wearing T-shirts supporting both sides of the political debate in several schools without issue,” Shaw added to KTTV.
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“He deserves to know everybody cares about him and shouldn’t lose his job over something a student caused,” another protesting student Katrina Munoz told KCAL.
The students who took part in the walkout were marked not present for class, KCAL added.
“This has made a lot of students very sad because it makes the school look bad,” Moore also told KCAL. “Because it makes it look like we have crazy teachers here when we don’t.”
You can view a video report here about the controversy.
We have a trifecta
With the Chino High School teacher getting placed on leave, that means all of the anti-Trump teachers Blaze News has covered this week — so far, at least — have seen their meltdowns ending badly.
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Also, a teacher at a different Southern California public high school who went on a profane rant in his Advanced Placement world history class against Trump the day after the election was placed on administrative leave.
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/furious-teacher-who-freaked-out-in-class-over-student-wearing-trump-hat-gets-placed-on-leave
