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Community says one ‘couldn’t be trusted to work with the children of immigrants,’ should lose her job
Many teachers and administrators across the country are allowing students to participate in anti-ICE walkout protests … which just happens to align with the official stance of some teachers’ union affiliates.
If you’re an educator with the opposite view on the subject, however, you might want to be careful.
As noted the end of last month by The College Fix, a teacher who simply wrote “Go ICE” on a social media page about immigration activities was ripped by the town’s mayor, who then encouraged the community to protest the teacher.
That teacher, identified as a 14-year veteran elementary phys. ed. instructor, had been placed on leave pending an investigation. ABC-7 reports he officially resigned last week due to the backlash over his comment.
According to a GoFundMe set up for the teacher, “a misleading portrayal” and “false narrative” fomented in part by Mayor Daniel Bovey and State Senator Karina Villa led to a characterization “that could not be further from who [the teacher] truly is.”
🚨 A dedicated PE teacher with 14 years at Gary Elementary in West Chicago was forced to resign after a single social media comment supporting ICE sparked massive backlash & unfair pressure.
— Shannon Adcock 🇺🇸 (@Shannon_A_IL) February 11, 2026
He lost his career, his calling, and the chance to say goodbye to his students; all…
Another elementary school teacher is in hot water for a similar social media remark — “Yay!!! We need ICE in Watsonville!! It’s been getting out of hand” — over in Watsonville, California.
Lookout Santa Cruz reports special ed teacher Sarai Jimenez’s comment caused the local “majority Latino” community to “erupt in outrage.” The Pajaro Valley Unified School District is over 80 percent Latino and “serves an unknown number of undocumented students and families.”
“Multiple” social media posts and comments stated Jimenez “couldn’t be trusted to work with the children of immigrants, should lose her job, or shouldn’t live in Watsonville.”
Parent Jorge Guerrero said “You can’t just tell the world how you feel and not expect repercussions from people because of how they feel about ICE.” The Mexican-American activist group Watsonville Brown Berets said Jimenez’s comment created a “hostile unsafe environment.”
Jimenez’s principal, Sara Pearman, sent an email to families noting the teacher’s comments did “not reflect the values” of the school or the district. Pearman also indicated a long-term substitute was sought “to take over” Jimenez’s class.
Jimenez told Lookout she was put on “paid administrative leave” last month and had received “hostile” messages including a threat to “pop her car tires” and one calling her a “shameful disgraceful disgusting woman.”
Parent Isaac Serrano said Jimenez being on leave “is not enough,” and claimed her comments were “pure racism” (despite Jimenez being a Latino surname).
The district teachers’ union head, Brandon Diniz, noted he was unaware of a teacher being fired for a personal social media remark, but added he had not seen one “that rise[s] to this level of concern and blatant disrespect for our local community.”
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