Texas teacher said she thought her tweets were private messages to President Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Last edited Tue Jun 4, 2019, 08:48 PM - Edit history (2)

Teacher Georgia Clark told Fort Worth school district officials she didn’t realize her comments about illegal immigration were public when she reached out to President Donald Trump on Twitter.

Clark, an English teacher at Carter-Riverside High School, was placed on administrative leave with pay last week after a series of posts caused a backlash on social media. She urged Trump to pay attention to illegal immigration and specifically called out her campus.

“Mr. President, Fort Worth Independent School District is loaded with illegal students from Mexico,” read one of the posts linked to her account. “Carter-Riverside High School has been taken over by them.”

Clark was investigated by the district for inappropriate behavior and violating the social media policy, according to a summary filed by the district’s Office of Professional Standards. The summary states instances of inappropriate behavior by Clark have been substantiated and she faces possible termination.

The school board is set to review the case Tuesday during a meeting.

Clark’s attorney, Brandon Y. Brim, declined to comment on the case.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-teacher-said-she-thought-her-tweets-were-private-messages-to-president-trump/ar-AACldmd?li=BBnb7Kz

Sounds like she's rather inept when it comes to technology.

[madinmaryland]

1. Heh! Probably a science or tech teacher. It is Texas.

I work for an engineering firm and the ignorance is stunning.

[onetexan]

6. Hey dont stoop to that level of ignorance yourself by generalizing

[tblue37]

11. Per the article:

Clark, an English teacher at Carter-Riverside High School. . . .

[TwilightZone]

13. Texas has some of the best schools in the country.

As another poster noted, generalizing is rarely accurate. Despite the best efforts of the State Board of Education, Texas has some of the highest-rated schools in the US.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2019/05/03/best-high-schools-america-2019-u-s-news-world-report-rankings/3660700002/

[Dennis Donovan]

2. This one's a pip, and she should've been removed / fired yrs ago:

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article231117988.html

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Clark was suspended without pay and reassigned in 2013 after referring to students at Western Hills High School as “Little Mexico” and “white bread.”

During the 2013-14 school year, Clark worked at Western Hills High School as a reading teacher, but was recommended for termination by a review committee after she was accused of using racist language toward students. She was kept by the district after the United Educators Association helped her find a resolution with the district, the records state.

Eighteen student witnesses made statements in that case. A co-worker on campus also told the district Clark used racist language when referring to students. That internal review began Nov. 7, 2013, and closed on Jan. 3, 2014.

In November 2013, Clark was accused of calling a group of Hispanic students “Little Mexico.” She also reportedly called a Caucasian student “white bread,” and separated the class by race, according to the reports.

“The Mexicans on one side and the white and black people on another side,” one student told the district’s Office of Professional Standards in 2013. “She had told the Mexicans that (they’re) Mexico and that the white and blacks are America.”
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[VOX]

20. One can sense the acceleration of her delusional thinking.

She comes across as being somewhat psychotic.

[ProudLib72]

3. The thing that gets me is she is on leave pending investigation

Ok, let's suppose, for some really weird reason, the board decides she was not being racist. I mean, just suppose. Don't they still need to decide on whether or not she is intelligent and sane enough to teach anything other than, say, garden snails? SHE BELIEVED TWITTER WAS A PRIVATE LINE TO THE RUMP!!!!

[TruckFump]

4. Bigoted and dumb.

She's an English teacher. At least she can spell the big words like illegal immigrant.

[dalton99a]

5. They should have fired her years ago

Last month, when one student asked to go to the bathroom, Clark told the student to “show me your papers that are saying you are legal,” a student told investigators, which was corroborated by another student. She denied to investigators that she made the comment, which the report claims occurred on May 17 — the same day Clark tweeted at Trump multiple times about what she perceived as illegal immigration in Fort Worth and in the school district.

In 2007, Clark kicked a student, the review said, though an investigation determined it was “without malice.” In 2013, she was disciplined for referring to a group of students as “little Mexico” and called another student “white bread.” Those allegations proved to be true, according to the review.

Clark’s former Twitter account was filled with invective salvos directed to Trump in January and May, according to the report.

“Do you have someone who has looked at the crime statistics across our great nation and documented the number of time [sic] an illegal immigrant has committed an act of robbery or murder on American citizens?” she wrote to Trump.

The president has inaccurately linked violence to unlawful immigrants, whom commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born Americans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/06/04/fort-worth-teacher-georgia-clark-asked-trump-tweets-round-up-illegal-students/

[Anon-C]

7. Saw this Stamford Advocate article...she's a real treat.

https://m.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Texas-teacher-asked-Trump-to-round-up-illegal-13935135.php#item-85307-tbla-5

[BigmanPigman]

8. Man, if I did any of the offenses she has been accused of

while I was teaching I would have been fired. The union would have told me that I was on my own with this one, and they all would have been correct. She should have her credential revoked.

[walkingman]

9. Totally agree. She has no business in the classroom.

[tblue37]

10. It says she's an English teacher. nt

[Karadeniz]

12. I hope she's fired. Picking on children is unacceptable.

[badhair77]

14. Totally unacceptable. As a teacher she is supposed to be their advocate.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. I want to see how big the rock is that she's been living under.

Seems like the only possible explanation that she thought her tweets were private messages.

It doesn't matter what subject she teaches, if she's younger than 85 she really ought to understand what Twitter is.

[47of74]

16. The school board voted to fire her

An update

A Texas school board voted that a teacher who tried to report undocumented students in her school district to Donald Trump through a series of public tweets — that she thought were private messages to the president — should be fired.

The Fort Worth Independent School District unanimously voted 8-0 to terminate the employment of Georgia Clark at a special meeting Tuesday. She still has an opportunity to appeal the vote with the state, NBC Dallas-Fort worth reports.

Clark,an English teacher at Carter-Riverside High School, tweeted that the school she worked at had been “taken over” by “illegal students from Mexico,” that Trump was elected “on the promise that a wall would be built to protect our borders” and tweeted multiple statements referencing "illegals."

According to district documents, Clark told an investigator she thought the tweets were direct messages to President Trump and didn't know they were public.

[live love laugh]

17. Then she should not have been teaching. nt

[RoadMan]

18. Send her to some remote village in Mexico

and compel her to teach ESL there.

[cwydro]

19. Huh?

Um, you can’t just “send” someone to another country.

[RoadMan]

21. Well . . . no shit

but if I was dictator, I'd choose a fitting punishment like that.

[DFW]

22. The only thing this woman should be doing in a school

She could clean the toilets of the children after hours, when the last child has long left for home.