{"id":1356001,"date":"2022-03-03T05:07:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T10:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356001"},"modified":"2022-03-03T05:07:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T10:07:53","slug":"as-a-teacher-florida-dem-senate-hopeful-slammed-student-to-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-a-teacher-florida-dem-senate-hopeful-slammed-student-to-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"As a Teacher, Florida Dem Senate Hopeful \u2018Slammed\u2019 Student to Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-a-teacher-florida-dem-senate-hopeful-slammed-student-to-ground%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356001&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Joshua Weil also tormented female colleague, who said behavior made her &#8216;very uncomfortable&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-02-at-2.20.46-PM-736x414-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-02-at-2.20.46-PM-736x414.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-02-at-2.20.46-PM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-02-at-2.20.46-PM-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-02-at-2.20.46-PM-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-02-at-2.20.46-PM-1400x788.png 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tJoshua Weil \/ YouTube\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 March 3, 2022 5:00 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As a public school teacher, a Florida Democrat received a suspension after he &#8220;slammed&#8221; a student to the ground, employment records obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> show.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Weil launched his Senate campaign against Republican Marco Rubio in December 2020, touting his status as &#8220;a proud father, a high school math teacher, and Florida&#8217;s progressive choice for U.S. Senate in 2022.&#8221; Employment records from Weil&#8217;s time at Orlando&#8217;s Orange Youth Academy, however, show that the Democrat&#8217;s teaching background may impair his quest for federal office, not strengthen it.<\/p>\n<p>According to emails obtained by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, Weil faced a three-day suspension in July 2015 after he &#8220;slammed&#8221; a student to the ground. The school&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/incident-report.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incident report<\/a> confirms the ordeal, stating Weil &#8220;grabbed student by neck, threw to ground, left bruise on student&#8217;s head.&#8221; In an <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/incident-summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with school officials<\/a>, Weil described the student as &#8220;one of the smaller kids in the class&#8221; and acknowledged that he &#8220;picked him up by his collar&#8221; and &#8220;brought him to the ground.&#8221; While Weil claimed he only engaged because the student was &#8220;slapping and hitting&#8221; him, the student said he merely &#8220;grabbed Mr. Weil&#8217;s arm to speak to him,&#8221; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/victim-testimony.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">school records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Weil campaign spokeswoman Angelize Colon said Weil &#8220;continues to have great regret to this day&#8221; over the incident. She said the school&#8217;s &#8220;staff and security&#8221; were &#8220;unable to respond&#8221; after the student began &#8220;striking&#8221; Weil, who then &#8220;attempted to restrain the student to the best of his abilities.&#8221; Colon also noted Weil&#8217;s suspension was &#8220;retroactively reduced&#8221; to one day.<\/p>\n<p>But the incident was not the first time Weil was subject to a complaint as an Orange Youth Academy teacher. According to a March 2015 email, Weil repeatedly tormented a female colleague, who said the behavior made her &#8220;very uncomfortable&#8221; and negatively impacted her work. On multiple occasions, the colleague said, Weil used a &#8220;stick&#8221; to physically &#8220;prod&#8221; her. Weil would also block the teacher&#8217;s &#8220;doorway with his body&#8221; to prevent her from leaving her classroom\u2014during one incident, records show, Weil told his colleague she &#8220;couldn&#8217;t leave&#8221; and physically &#8220;poked&#8221; her as she tried to unlock her door. On another occasion, Weil accessed his colleague&#8217;s computer to change her screensaver to a picture of himself, which she called an &#8220;invasion of my privacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very uncomfortable with him touching me and I am also very uncomfortable having to put my hands on him to push out of doorways,&#8221; the female employee <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/female-colleague-email.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;Last night \u2026 I was too excited to sleep because I knew he wasn&#8217;t going to be at work today. \u2026 I should be happy to come to work every day, not just on days he&#8217;s not going to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colon described the issue as &#8220;the type of workplace tension that happens from time to time, particularly in stressful\u00a0environments, and was documented for posterity as it was quickly reconciled.&#8221; She added that Weil &#8220;respects and appreciates&#8221; the colleague in question &#8220;for voicing the discomfort she was experiencing so that air could be cleared, and she would no longer have to feel that way.&#8221; Orange\u00a0County Public Schools, which includes Orange Youth Academy, did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Following his suspension, Weil continued working at Orange Youth Academy for two years, his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joshua-weil-04a49929\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> states. In September 2018, he secured a new teaching job in the Osceola County School District.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly two years later, Weil <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Weil4USSenate\/status\/1334603853027794949?s=20&#038;t=hXBKUcS9zaJ_gcD45cMZ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> his campaign to unseat Rubio. In a video that he appeared to film in his classroom, Weil said he decided to run because he is a &#8220;deeply concerned father&#8221; who sees &#8220;so much that is wrong in our country,&#8221; including &#8220;the walls we build to divide and control people&#8221; and &#8220;the obstacles we set up to maintain an ever-widening caste system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weil&#8217;s platform consists of a number of left-wing policy positions. His <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Weil4USSenate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter account<\/a> boasts that he supports Medicare for All and a universal basic income, and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshweil.org\/platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign site<\/a> calls for a &#8220;reparations program&#8221; that would cost &#8220;a minimum of $20 trillion.&#8221; Weil also wants to eliminate student debt, decriminalize sex work and &#8220;all drug-related offenses,&#8221; ensure &#8220;access to puberty blockers for trans kids,&#8221; and lift &#8220;all current sanctions and embargoes currently in effect on other nations, chief among them our neighboring nation of Cuba.&#8221; In a June 2021 tweet, meanwhile, Weil <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Weil4USSenate\/status\/1404967909441654785?s=20&#038;t=hXBKUcS9zaJ_gcD45cMZ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> Israel of &#8220;genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weil faces an uphill battle in his bid to challenge Rubio in November 2021. He will first have to emerge from a crowded Democratic primary, which is led by congresswoman Val Demings. As of Dec. 31, Demings has raised more than $20 million to Weil&#8217;s $27,000.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Joshua Weil also tormented female colleague, who said behavior made her &#8216;very uncomfortable&#8217;  Joshua Weil \/ YouTube  Collin Anderson \u2022 March 3, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}