A Spanish teacher at a California high school reportedly stormed out of class and accused a student of a “hate crime” for wearing a Make America Great Again shirt.
The unnamed teacher at Cerritos High School sent students a lengthy email complaining about open support for President-elect Donald Trump.
The teacher claimed that the shirt was “meant to intimidate both students and teachers” and called Trump a “fascist.”
“Given the current political climate and ABC USD’s policy of neutrality NOT being neutral in the sense that students are allowed to express their political views by wearing their preferred political party attire and teachers are NOT allowed to express their political views by wearing their preferred political party attire, I am having a disagreement with administration regarding this double standard,” the teacher wrote in a November 7 email which was shared on social media.
@elonmusk A student in Cerritos High-school wore a MAGA shirt to class. Their teacher left school immediately and sent all her students this email. Imagine having your classmates read this, knowing it is directed at you. How can you feel safe or fairly treated moving forward? pic.twitter.com/DBgNA3RKKg
— S Bob (@SBob7349) November 8, 2024
The teacher was outraged that students are allowed to express their political views and faculty is not.
“It is not a neutral stance when one group is allowed to express their political views (even if those views are racist, misogynistic, antisemi[tic] and homophobic) and the other side is silenced under threat of losing their job and/or being seriously reprimanded,” the rant continued.
The teacher claimed the student who wore the shirt had expressed “a deep hatred of minorities, women, non-Christian religion and LGBTQ+ and in my opinion are a HATE crime when worn at school.”
“As a Latina woman, who is agnostic at best but leans towards atheism and a mother of an LGBTQ+ daughter and supporter of ALL my LGBTQ+ students, I do not feel safe at work, and I fear for the safety of my daughter and my students when administration allows students to wear clothing that expresses their utter disdain and hatred of women, minorities, non-Christian religions and the LGBTQ+ community,” the unhinged teacher continued.
She claimed that President Trump is a “fascist put into office by people who fear the changing demographics of a country, never mind that this country was founded by people immigrating to this great country as they fled dictators and tyrants (my dad from Cuba) or impoverished countries (my grandmother from Mexico) and have come to this country to give their children a better life and opportunity at an education.”
The insanity did not stop there.
The teacher told her students that she would be taking a few days off for her mental health “while trying to come up with a better definition of what political neutrality looks like in the classroom so that we can all feel safe coming to school, rather than being intimidated by MAGA attire which has promised to end social services, including education as we know them.”
She also asked students to “keep the politics at home, not in the classroom.”
The ABC Unified School District told the Daily Mail “it is aware of the situation, and is investigating the teacher’s actions.”
The district added, “we encourage students to exercise their freedom of speech within the policies set by our Board of Education and California Education Code.”
