Teachers’ Assassination Cheers Prove Education Rot Runs Deep
The article discusses the widespread and disturbing reaction from many American public school teachers on social media celebrating the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. These responses, coming from teachers across multiple states and districts, included calls for further violence against Christians and conservatives. The Charlie Kirk Data Foundation has collected data revealing tens of thousands of educators and other professionals who publicly supported the act. Some teachers have faced suspensions, firings, or investigations, with state officials like Oklahoma’s Superintendent Ryan Walters and Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath vowing to take action against educators who glorify political violence. However, some teachers’ unions have condemned these efforts as political witch hunts, and certain districts have refused to dismiss those involved. The article argues that public schools have long been influenced by leftist ideology, indoctrinating children with divisive beliefs, and that Kirk’s murder has exposed the extent of the problem. It calls for continued and intensified efforts to address what it describes as deep-rooted moral decay within the education system.
If you’re looking for evidence that the country is controlled by large swaths of morally bankrupt Americans, scroll no further than your town’s teachers’ social media accounts, which were inundated this past week with celebrations of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and calls for more violence against Christians and conservatives.
The outpouring of support for the act of extremism did not come from teachers of one particular state, school district, or even subject. In fact, the incendiary response was so widespread that the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation, which claims to “lawfully collect publicly-available data to analyze the prominence of support for political violence in the interest of public education,” promises to release a directory of the tens of thousands of Americans — teachers, doctors, and others — who celebrated the death of Kirk online.
Comments such as “1 Nazi down,” from a public school art instructor in Iowa and “1 down. Now get the rest of these fools” from a biology teacher in Texas will now have a permanent place on the internet.
No one should be blind to the fact that public schools have become cesspools of leftism, controlled by greedy teachers unions and staffed by people stupid enough to post their call for more terrorism where it can be screenshotted. One glance at Libs of TikTok over the last few years would make any Christian conservative parent’s stomach squirm.
For years now, we’ve seen kids as young as five years old be indoctrinated by their teachers with hate for each other and hate for their country. Now, after a Christian husband and father was martyred for his beliefs in broad daylight, more Americans are realizing a significant chunk of those tasked with teaching the next generation are evil enough to dance on the graves of their political enemies online and even in the classroom.
Teachers across several school districts in several states were suspended, “disciplined,” fired, or resigned after their morally reprehensible responses to the assassination. Others will likely follow as bureaucrats like Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters vowed to strip any public school employee reveling in Kirk’s murder of their state teaching license.
“We are investigating. We will not allow any teacher in charge of our kids to celebrate the assassination of anyone. Charlie Kirk’s death is a tragedy for our entire country. Any teacher celebrating his death will be banned from teaching,” Walters wrote on X in response to a report that a high school teacher attempted to justify Kirk’s murder by claiming he was “a racist, misogynist, piece of sh-t.”
In Texas, Education Commissioner Mike Morath warned that government school employees who “have proliferated such vile content” will be investigated by the education agency’s investigations division.
Morath also encouraged those who come across “additional instances of inappropriate content being shared” to report it through the agency’s misconduct portal.
“While the exercise of free speech is a fundamental right we are all blessed to share, it does not give carte blanche authority to celebrate or sow violence against those that share differing beliefs and perspectives,” Morath emphasized.
The second-largest teachers union in the U.S. wasted no time painting the quest to hold those celebrating political violence accountable as a “political witch hunt.”
Other states and districts, however, have refused to remove school employees who not only glorified Kirk’s death but also, in some cases, called for the deaths of other conservatives.
Even if those teachers were held accountable for their despicable actions, however, there’s no denying that an unconscionable number of taxpayer-paid teachers are using their time and influence to foment physical harm against their political opponents. The rot that has long plagued our education system runs deep and requires much more than a few firing sprees every once in an assassination.
That fight against the wickedness that has permeated public schools (not to mention higher education institutions) started long before Kirk’s murder, but it can’t stop there. The shocking and overwhelmingly awful response to his death should only invigorate those who have pledged to root out the rot to dig deeper.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
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