{"id":248348,"date":"2025-09-23T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248348\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:32:21","slug":"florida-education-commissioner-looking-to-revoke-clay-teachers-license-over-charlie-kirk-comments-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248348\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Education Commissioner looking to revoke Clay teacher\u2019s license over Charlie Kirk comments \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Florida\u2019s Education Commissioner said Monday he wants to revoke the license of a Clay County teacher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/clay-county-teacher-suspended-over-social-media-posts-appearing-celebrate-charlie-kirks-death\/P6RS3E3YDNFZVIKPCLI52NAKOA\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/clay-county-teacher-suspended-over-social-media-posts-appearing-celebrate-charlie-kirks-death\/P6RS3E3YDNFZVIKPCLI52NAKOA\/\"><b>over social media posts<\/b><\/a> following conservative activist Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Action News Jax <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/education-commissioner-investigate-educators-posting-despicable-comments-about-charlie-kirk\/5J6DDDDFEZHB3ECEOSK5Q3R3DM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/education-commissioner-investigate-educators-posting-despicable-comments-about-charlie-kirk\/5J6DDDDFEZHB3ECEOSK5Q3R3DM\/\"><b>told you earlier this month<\/b><\/a> when Ridgeview Elementary School teacher Kelly Brock-Sanchez was suspended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Now, Commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/about-us\/commissioner.stml\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/about-us\/commissioner.stml\"><b>Anastasios Kamoutsas<\/b><\/a> said he wants to charge that teacher for her comments and stop her from teaching in Florida again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">This all comes following posts she made online following Kirk\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">She posted on her personal Facebook saying, \u201cThis may not be the obituary. We were all hoping to wake up to, but this is a close second for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">On Monday, we learned from Kamoutsas that Clay County District Schools received more than 500 complaints in the aftermath of those posts and it had to increase security measures to ensure the safety of students and teachers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Following a review of evidence and an investigation by the Office of Professional Practices Services in the Department of Education, Kamoutsas said probable cause was found to charge Brock-Sanchez with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gross immorality<\/li>\n<li>Failure to protect the health, safety, and welfare of students <\/li>\n<li>Reduced effectiveness as an educator<\/li>\n<li>Failing to distinguish personal views from a public educational institution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[SIGN UP: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>] <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cHolding educators accountable for speech that celebrates violence in schools is not a violation of free speech; it is a necessary step to uphold the standards of the teaching profession and the safety of our schools,\u201d Kamoutsas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Kamoutsas is warning educators across the state to think twice before posting something politically charged online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">We reached out to Brock-Sanchez via email to ask her about those charges and we have not received a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s Education Commissioner said Monday he wants to revoke the license of a Clay County teacher over social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":248349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[13030,103688,13826,5229,131879,127685,131880,119908,32135,64445,121082,31586,3059,101229,1066,3188,723,7310,130424,131881,121084,425,6063,121079,28496,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-248348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action_news_jacks","9":"tag-ag","10":"tag-alexis_clevinger","11":"tag-america","12":"tag-anastasios_kumas","13":"tag-attorney_general","14":"tag-brock_sanchez","15":"tag-charlie_kirk","16":"tag-clay","17":"tag-clay_county","18":"tag-clay_county_school_district","19":"tag-commissioner","20":"tag-county","21":"tag-emily_turner","22":"tag-facebook","23":"tag-fl","24":"tag-florida","25":"tag-jacksonville","26":"tag-jacques_alexis_clevinger","27":"tag-james_uthmeyer","28":"tag-kelly_brock_sanchez","29":"tag-local","30":"tag-orlando","31":"tag-ridgeview_elementary_school","32":"tag-tanika_hughes","33":"tag-united-states","34":"tag-united-states-of-america","35":"tag-unitedstates","36":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","37":"tag-us","38":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248348","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=248348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}