{"id":1455513,"date":"2022-04-27T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455513"},"modified":"2022-04-27T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:22:30","slug":"the-disgraced-teacher-who-took-the-name-of-an-egyptian-god-and-radicalized-a-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-disgraced-teacher-who-took-the-name-of-an-egyptian-god-and-radicalized-a-school-district\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disgraced Teacher Who Took The Name Of An Egyptian God And Radicalized A School District"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fthe-disgraced-teacher-who-took-the-name-of-an-egyptian-god-and-radicalized-a-school-district%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=1455513&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--><p><em>This is part two of a three-part Daily Wire investigation. Read part one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/this-is-a-cult-how-wealthy-santa-barbara-foreshadowed-the-fight-against-crackpot-curriculum\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A teacher and avowed communist who named himself after an Egyptian god successfully pushed a woke curriculum on the very district that would later fire him over his conduct with a student.<\/p>\n<p>Matef Harmachis, whose original name is Leigh Barker, was convicted of battery in 2017 for an incident that occurred against a female student in his classroom, then spent years on paid disciplinary leave before finally being fired. But before he was fired, he successfully lobbied the Santa Barbara board of education to require all students to take courses in ethnic studies, a branch of Critical Race Theory (CRT). His effort to radicalize the curriculum came despite being accused of groping and biting the female student, threatening and grabbing others and preaching his toxic brand of socialism from in front of the blackboard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would hug me all the time,\u201d said the female student, who The Daily Wire is referring to as \u201cMaria\u201d in order to protect her identity. Over time, the unwelcome hugs became longer and tighter, and he asked Maria to call him \u201cdaddy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the classroom where Harmachis held court, pictures of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro dotted the walls, according to Maria, who recalled that Harmachis was \u201cvery open\u201d about his support for communism.<\/p>\n<p>Harmachis was also open about sex and birth control with his students, Maria said. He offered massages to female students, made sexual noises, and once told his history class \u201cI could have sex with any of the girls here,\u201d according to Maria.<\/p>\n<p><i>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-disgraced-teacher-who-took-the-name-of-an-egyptian-god-and-radicalized-a-school-district\">https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-disgraced-teacher-who-took-the-name-of-an-egyptian-god-and-radicalized-a-school-district<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Luke Rosiak is the author of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Race-Bottom-Uncovering-Destroying-Education\/dp\/0063056720\/\"><i>Race To the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education<\/i><\/a><i>. <\/i><em>Kenny Xu is an education journalist and the author of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Inconvenient-Minority-Admissions-American-Excellence\/dp\/1635767563\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=an+inconvenient+minority&#038;qid=1649696919&#038;sprefix=an+inconve%2Caps%2C91&#038;sr=8-1\">An Inconvenient Minority<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part two of a three-part Daily Wire investigation. Read part one here.\u00a0A teacher and avowed communist who named himself after an Egyptian god successfully pushed a woke curriculum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":724,"featured_media":1898493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"The Disgraced Teacher Who Took The Name Of An Egyptian God And Radicalized A School District","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"The Disgraced Teacher Who Took The Name Of An Egyptian God And Radicalized A School District","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455513","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\/724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}