After over a year of Zoom classes, and debates between parents and teachers, a San Diego-area high school teacher let her feelings about race and remote learning be known to her students.
A San Marcos High School teacher, Alissa Piro, was captured on video denouncing the idea of a “white student union” after one of her students asked her why there couldn't be one at their school.
"You don't need a White student union, Jake. You get everything," Piro can be heard saying vehemently.
Piro, who teaches English, was also heard on video discussing distance learning versus in-person teaching.
She appears to be talking about an ongoing lawsuit against Gov. Gavin Newsom and six North County school districts demanding schools return to in-classroom learning, despite advocacy from the local teachers union to maintain current COVID restrictions, voting to keep a hybrid model for the until the end of the school year
"If your parent wants to talk to me about their profession and their opinion on their profession, I would love to hear that...," she says.
"However, if your parent wants to come talk to me about how I'm not doing a good enough job in distance learning based on what you need as an individual? Just dare them to come at me. Because I am so sick to my stomach of parents trying to tell educators how to do their job."
Video of the Zoom meeting was shared in a private Facebook group, according to Fox News.
The video was shown to the school’s principal, Adam Dawson.
"She's a bully," the mother wrote in the "Open SM Schools" private Facebook group. "These rants were so often my child said he 'tuned her out' and was just trying to get thru the class...this is exactly what's wrong with education and if the school district sweeps this then they are just as responsible."
One mother at the school reportedly claimed that Piro had been fired from another local school.
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