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G_j

(40,367 posts) Sat Oct 5, 2019, 11:36 AM Oct 2019

IOWA Iowa Science Teacher Placed on Leave After 'Sniper Rifle' Facebook Comment Directed at Climate

https://time.com/5693356/iowa-science-teacher-greta-thunberg-facebook-comment/

(WATERLOO, Iowa) — An Iowa high school science teacher has been placed on administrative leave after he made what appeared to be a threatening social media comment about 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg.

The Waterloo Community School District said Friday in an emailed statement that the teacher, Matt Baish, has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.

Baish’s removal followed a Facebook comment he purportedly posted about Thunberg’s planned appearance Friday in Iowa City for a student-led climate strike demonstration, asking “Who’s all going?” In response, a user named Matt Baish wrote, “Dont have my sniper rifle.”

West High School’s website lists Baish as a science teacher at the school. There was no answer Friday at a phone listing for Baish.

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IOWA Iowa Science Teacher Placed on Leave After 'Sniper Rifle' Facebook Comment Directed at Climate (Original Post) G_j Oct 2019 OP

A teacher threatening a 16 year old girl Downtown Hound Oct 2019 #1

Teacher's comment receives mixed reactions struggle4progress Oct 2019 #2

tRump, Pence, Barr, McConnell, McCarthy, conservatives, republicans will have blood on their hands ffr Oct 2019 #3

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)

1. A teacher threatening a 16 year old girl

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Sat Oct 5, 2019, 11:38 AM

Oct 2019

For being concerned about the climate too, of all things. Words simply can't convey the contempt I have for these people.

struggle4progress

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2. Teacher's comment receives mixed reactions

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Sat Oct 5, 2019, 12:01 PM

Oct 2019

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... “I was honestly frightened,” said Anne Phillips, whose children went to West. She says she shared Baish’s comments online in an effort to alert the community.

“I was pretty shocked that sort of a comment would be made to someone in the same age group as the kids he was teaching,” said Phillips.

Phillips worries for any of Baish’s students who may share the same views as Thunberg /

“And to have them have to enter a classroom where they don’t feel safe, where they don’t feel they can share their opinion, where they don’t feel respected, we as parents have to stand up against that,” said Phillips ...

https://kwwl.com/news/2019/10/04/waterloo-teacher-on-leave-after-controversial-social-media-post/

ffr

(22,670 posts)

3. tRump, Pence, Barr, McConnell, McCarthy, conservatives, republicans will have blood on their hands

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Sat Oct 5, 2019, 12:10 PM

Oct 2019

Not to mention the entertainers on Fox News and right-wing radio. They condone this behavior.

Don't fool yourself. Every republican across this great land of ours wholeheartedly is okay with this kind of behavior.

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