A Dallas, Texas high school art teacher was watching the
inauguration of Donald Trump on a whiteboard in her classroom when she jumped
up and lunged at the image of President Trump, repeatedly fired a squirt gun at
it, and yelled “die!”
The
school district wouldn’t say if- or how many- students witnessed the ersatz
assassination attempt, but voices can be heard in the background of the video the teacher posted to her Instagram account.
Yes, the savvy educator actually posted the faux assassination video along
with the message: “Watching the #inauguration in my classroom like…#no #stop
#denial #squirtgun #hypocrisy #powerless #saveusall #teachthembetter
#atleastitsfriday.”
“#Teach
them better?” Like you just did? Talk about “#hypocrisy?” This brilliant
instructor just committed the Mother of All Hypocrisies. School kids routinely
get sent home for wearing a shirt with a picture
of a firearm on it, or for even pointing their fingers at a classmate in an
aggressive manner and saying “bang.” What is she doing with a squirt gun in
class? Clearly this was a hate crime. Maybe she’ll claim it was “performance
art.”
I’m
sure she has sadly reflected on the events that occurred shortly after noon on
November 22nd, 1963, as she should have. Yet, here she is, a teacher
in Dallas, staging a fake- but
apparently desired- assassination shortly after noon in a classroom on the day
a president is inaugurated? And, to top it all off, she thinks the inauguration reeks of “hypocrisy,”
and that she is by definition a better teacher than those whose students
somehow grew up to vote for Trump?
Mind-boggling, but tragically no longer surprising.
The
school district has placed the teacher on administrative leave, and said in a
statement: “This is a personnel matter and as such we cannot comment.”
Fortunately,
I can: “#fireherass.”
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