Middle School Teacher Bullies Student For Citing Fox News, Then It Got Worse
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It is common practice in this day and age for teachers to bring their politics into the classroom. It started in colleges with professors indoctrinating their adult students to support the liberal agenda, but it has seeped into high schools. Now, even middle school and grade school students are not safe from the barrage of the progressive agenda being pushed by their teachers.
An Indiana man said that his son’s 8th-grade Spanish teacher, Sarah Ford, bullied his son because he used Fox News as a source in a paper he wrote. Todd Hein told WOWO that the teacher berated his son in front of his classmates and gave him an extra credit assignment to do about “President Donald Trump’s lies.”
“She decided to walk up to him and in front of everybody, told him Fox News is fake news, it’s full of lies… and gave him a new assignment, to look up any of the ‘many lies’ Donald Trump has told as President of the United States, and do a full page report on that,” Hein said.
“They don’t need to listen to that in a Spanish class, of all things. I mean there’s no other word to describe it. She bullied our son over Fox News,” he said. Hein said that he had a meeting with school officials in which Ford admitted to doing what his son said she did. The school, Blackhawk Middle School, told him that it had finished its investigation but would not tell him what the decision was.
“They said she’d be the only person who knew the outcome unless she was terminated, then it would be presented to the board and it would become a public record,” he said. Hein and his son Jacob, not satisfied with that answer, took the story to Fox News to bring more attention to it.
“She came up to him in class in front of everybody and said, ‘I noticed that you cited Fox News on your last article, and I want you to know that Fox News is fake news. It’s full of lies, and you’re no longer to use Fox News as a source for any of these assignments,’” Hein told “Fox & Friends.” He said that his son was “embarrassed” and “scared.”
Hein said that Ford pulled his son aside the day after the meeting with the school administrators and apologized to him. Jacob said he felt “pretty bad about the situation — because she singled me out in class and was talking bad about this, and the whole situation, it was completely random and it was shocking to me.”
Hein said he made it public because “this is something that, nationally, we’re hearing almost on a daily basis now. It used to be college level, high school, now we’re getting into middle and grade school even,” he said. He said that “even after this incident, she gave an assignment three days after our meeting to go ahead and figure out why (President) Donald Trump has not done enough to help the people of Puerto Rico since the hurricanes.”
The school district issued a statement disavowing what Sarah Ford did, but it did not say what repercussions she faced for bullying the student. “Fort Wayne Community Schools does not condone the kind of behavior detailed by this parent,” FWCS public information officer Krista Stockman said in the statement.
“When we were notified, we immediately investigated and took appropriate action,” it read. “Because this is a personnel matter, we cannot provide details of the outcome of the investigation.”
One part of the outcome that we do know is that Ford continues to teach at the school. There has been no suspension and nothing that has appeared to deter the teacher’s rhetoric as she gave her students an anti-President Trump assignment three days after the incident with Hein. It sounds like the outcome was giving her a pat on the back and telling her to keep indoctrinating students.