A Chula Vista teacher has been disciplined after showing a video of the Charlie Kirk assassination in class.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred in a senior AP government class at the Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School not long after Kirk was killed.<\/p>\n
The talk around Chula Vista Learning Community Charter High School is not so much that conservative debater Charlie Kirk was shot and killed but what one teacher showed and what was discussed in a classroom. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone in that position who teaches kids \u2014 especially my kid \u2014 should not be a teacher no more,” parent Manuel Pena said.<\/p>\n
Pena has an 11th-grade daughter at the school.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone who is around kids or children, educating them or making comments, it can influence these kids so easily, \u201c Pena said.<\/p>\n
The school communications director said at least one student recorded what was said in the government teacher\u2019s classroom, but such details are now a personnel matter.<\/p>\n
NBC 7 spoke with one student who was in the class at the time but wished not to be identified. She said her teacher showed the video of Kirk\u2019s assassination at the request of the students.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was just like, ‘If I play the video, will you guys take your seats?’ ” the student said. “They sat down and he asked for consent, and everyone said yes.”<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for CVLCC turned down an on-camera interview with NBC 7, but she did speak off-camera at the elementary school. We asked about the Kirk assassination video; she didn\u2019t seem to know anything about that. She also couldn\u2019t say what, exactly, the teacher said to the students.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe district cannot discuss the details of the disciplinary actions Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School has taken, as this is a personnel matter,”: Director for Communications Giovanna Castro said. “We can further express that the CVLCC employee\u2019s position is not the official position of the school or district.”<\/p>\n
School districts typically deal with personnel matters in closed session before board meetings. In many cases, only the outcome of such disciplinary proceedings is made public. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Beatrice is the mother of the student NBC 7 spoke with who was in the classroom. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe is a very nice guy,” Beatrice said. ‘I don\u2019t have a problem with any of the teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beatrice knows the teacher and has seen the video herself. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not have a problem with them seeing what happened \u2014 just, you know, what\u2019s going on in the world,” Beatrice said.<\/p>\n
Charter schools, while an alternative to public schools, are still paid for, in large part, by federal and state tax dollars.<\/p>\n
Later in the day, NBC 7 went to the teacher\u2019s home in Fallbrook. The man at the door said the teacher wasn\u2019t home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chula Vista teacher has been disciplined after showing a video of the Charlie Kirk assassination in class.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":233140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,16214,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-233139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-chula-vista","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115218166869751358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}