{"id":255235,"date":"2025-09-26T03:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255235\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T03:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:58:11","slug":"floridas-education-commissioner-promises-to-remove-teachers-who-he-says-are-celebrating-violence-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255235\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s Education Commissioner promises to remove teachers who he says are celebrating violence \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">CLAY COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Action News Jax is talking one-on-one with the state\u2019s education commissioner following his announcement to revoke the license of a Clay County teacher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cUltimately, you are governed by professional standards as an educator, so that\u2019s why we took action on her certificate,\u201d said Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The state is going after Kelly Brock-Sanchez for her comments made online about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"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\">She posted to her personal Facebook and said, \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\">\u201cThat educator made a vile, sanctionable comment that celebrated the violence that took place on a school campus, which is really appalling to me,\u201d said Kamoutsas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The Florida Department of Education found probable cause to charge her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">On Monday, Action News Jax learned 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\">The district will determine whether or not she will lose her job, but the state could take away her ability to teach before that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Action News Jax is working to learn what her current status is at this time. We have also been trying to get in contact with her since we learned she was suspended. We went to her house and tried to speak with her on Thursday, but no one answered the door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">But it\u2019s not just happening in Clay.<\/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=\"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\">In Duval County, the school district is also investigating an unspecified number of employees for comments about Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">And Thursday, we learned Hope McMath, Duval teacher, was reassigned while the district conducts an investigation after social media posts. Not about Charlie Kirk, but about a Jacksonville city councilman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The president of the Florida Education Association acknowledged that educators are held to high standards, but also says everyone makes mistakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cWe are human; everyone gets into that situation,\u201d said Andrew Spar. \u201cAnd the question is, is the mistake a career-ending mistake. Under this commissioner, he seems to be taking the tone of anything that educators say that he personally disagrees with will be career-ending, and that\u2019s not how we operate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The education commissioner was not able to confirm or deny that they are investigating McMath.<\/p>\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=\"noopener\"><b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>] <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLAY COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Action News Jax is talking one-on-one with the state\u2019s education commissioner following his announcement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":255236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[12189,13822,13826,5229,134577,15621,119908,32135,64445,134579,121082,17998,12187,1066,3188,723,134578,121085,134580,11561,7310,134581,121084,425,134582,26770,57513,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-255235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action_news","9":"tag-alexis","10":"tag-alexis_clevinger","11":"tag-america","12":"tag-becker","13":"tag-ben","14":"tag-charlie_kirk","15":"tag-clay","16":"tag-clay_county","17":"tag-clay_county_district","18":"tag-clay_county_school_district","19":"tag-duval","20":"tag-duval_county","21":"tag-facebook","22":"tag-fl","23":"tag-florida","24":"tag-florida_department_of_education","25":"tag-florida_education_association","26":"tag-hope_mcmath","27":"tag-jack","28":"tag-jacksonville","29":"tag-jacksonville_city","30":"tag-kelly_brock_sanchez","31":"tag-local","32":"tag-mcmath","33":"tag-taneka_hughes","34":"tag-tanika","35":"tag-united-states","36":"tag-united-states-of-america","37":"tag-unitedstates","38":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","39":"tag-us","40":"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\/255235","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=255235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}