Dear WND Reader, “You’re fired!” That’s what happened recently to Karen Siegemund, a math teacher at a private K-12 school located in southern California called the Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles.
But why? •Did she strike a child in her classroom or use vulgar language in front of her class? NO. •Did she engage in "inappropriate conduct" with one of her students? NO. •Or was it just a matter of poor performance — that her students were scoring badly on standardized tests used by colleges and universities to award enrollment to qualified candidates? Again the answer is NO.
Rather, as WND reported last week, Dr. Karen Siegemund — a highly qualified teacher who began her teaching career 10 years ago after working in the field of underwater acoustics to develop and test new sonar systems for the U.S. Navy during the Cold War — was fired for being a conservative.
More to the point, Dr. Siegemund was fired for serving as president of the American Freedom Alliance and for being an outspoken defender of Western Civilization.
As school administrators told her when they let her know they wouldn’t be renewing her contract to teach at their school in the coming year:
. . .[O]ne of your speeches as the leader of the American Freedom Alliance states: “Each of us here, believes in the unparalleled force for good that is Western Civilization, that is OUR heritage, whether we were born here or not.”
She was fired just for being an America-loving conservative and daring to talk about it.
I cite this example of vicious radical-left discrimination and persecution of conservatives in our education system because this has been happening to conservative school teachers for DECADES.
Conservative Christian teachers with seniority are being targeted for termination if they voice their conservative opinions with others even off the job or, God forbid, share their views with their students.
For new teachers, the same rule applies. If you are a principled, patriotic conservative who won’t help the socialist left force their radical agenda down the throats of your students, you need not apply.
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