The Chula Vista School Board president resigned Wednesday evening after parents condemned her offensive tweets about her sexual prowess and demanding someone bring her an 18-year-old boy.
Kate Bishop will stay on as a Board member. She joined the Chula Vista Elementary School District board in California in 2020. In response to the outcry, she called her tweets "past mistakes" and that they were supposed to be funny, according to reporting by The Daily Mail.
The main damning tweet read: "I'm pretty sure I hit my sexual peak today. Somebody bring me an 18 year old boy, STAT!" wrote Bishop in 2012, with the hashtag "hormones."
Another tweet from 2011, "Off to the park to see what hot 3-year-old girls my kid can hit on," with the hashtag "ValentinesDay" also drew parents' ire.
The school district has distanced itself from the tweets.
Katie Davidson-Brock, a Chula Vista local and mother of three children, one of whom attends Chula Vista Elementary School, told Fox News in an interview on Tuesday, "I think that someone with this type of character is unfit to serve."
Other parents, Kimberly and Matt Dickson, explicitly wanted Bishop to step down, citing the tweets as concerning and questioning why the school district is not taking action. Joe Thomas, the father who shared the old tweets posted on Facebook last week: "Her comments are appalling, disturbing and unprofessional for any educator in the public school system."
According to Thomas, Bishop switched her Twitter account to private mode 24 hours after he reached out to the superintendent's office on Thursday.
Bishop responded in a statement to Fox News on Tuesday: "As a parent involved in education, I see this as a teachable moment that things put on the internet last forever. The intent of these tweets was meant to be funny, but they weren't, and without context years later, they have actually hurt people that I care about."
"I own my past mistakes and I have been more mindful of things that I post publicly online since then," Bishop wrote.
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