California parents rally in defense of teacher recorded berating students over push for in-person learning

EXCLUSIVE: California parents rallied Saturday morning in defense of a San Marcos High School teacher who appeared on movies slamming students whose parents need to reopen in-person learning starting final fall.

Meanwhile, critics of the identical teacher have blasted the varsity principal Adam Dawson as “Do Nothing Dawson” after they mentioned they reported the teacher’s habits weeks in the past and haven’t seen any motion taken till the video went viral after Fox News obtained it. 

Neither Dawson nor a district spokesperson instantly responded to a number of requests for touch upon that characterization of occasions.

Alissa Piro, an English teacher, appeared miffed over a lawsuit {that a} totally different group of parents leveled in opposition to Gov. Gavin Newsom and a half dozen North County college districts searching for to reopen faculties shuttered in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“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,” she says. “Because I am so sick to my stomach of parents trying to tell educators how to do their job.”

She went on to liken her experience to that of a physician.

“I have never once gone to a doctor’s appointment and tried to tell me medical health provider how to treat me,” she mentioned. “You know why? ‘Cause I know nothing about that.”

She did issue a quick apology at the end of her rant, which took place in the fall but became public last week.

A family member of a student in the class recorded the video, then shared it to a private Facebook group aimed at reopening schools in the district, before being obtained by Fox News along with another recording of Piro yelling at a student who questioned why there wasn’t a “White student union.”

Dawson, in a letter students and parents Wednesday, expressed disappointment over the divisive nature of the battle and mentioned the movies “do not represent us as a school community.”

“We are a No Place for Hate school site that will not stop working for equity, inclusion, and safety for ALL of our students,” he wrote.

But the decision for unity might not have assuaged the variations between opposing mother or father teams.

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A flyer for the pro-Piro rally, obtained by Fox News Friday night, known as on parents to rally in protest of “inaction from admin when it comes to racism on campus at SMHS & show support for Mrs. Piro.”

According to district parents, Piro had as soon as been fired from a special college for related divisive conduct round students.

But her supporters at Saturday’s rally mentioned she was “wrongfully depicted” in the video and argued that distance learning has been arduous on students, lecturers and parents alike.

Neither Piro nor her husband, one other teacher in the district, instantly responded to Fox News requests for remark.

Tiffany Campbell, the district’s interim superintendent, mentioned in a press release earlier this week that educators there have been tasked with difficult students however that “excellence” is barely obtained “when we accept only the best from every individual.”

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“We are deeply concerned about the recent videos that have surfaced regarding one of our employees,” she mentioned. “This is a matter that we take very seriously and it is receiving our highest scrutiny.”

Campbell confirmed {that a} teacher had been positioned on administrative go away following the video’s launch however didn’t affirm his or her id, citing the open investigation, due course of and privateness.