A Klein Unbiased Faculty District worker was terminated over on-line remarks he reportedly made in regards to the Wednesday assassination of Charlie Kirk, a well known conservative activist and podcaster.
The Houston-area college district confirmed the termination in a social media submit on Friday. Justin Elbert, a spokesperson for Klein ISD, stated the worker who was terminated is a person recognized as a social research instructor and coach.
A submit that circulated on social media seems to indicate a remark the instructor and coach made on Fb calling Kirk “racist, homophobic, a misogynist, transphobic nasty individual.”
A number of different Houston-area educators are going through criticism and calls for his or her dismissal over feedback they made about Kirk, 31, who was shot and killed at Utah Valley College whereas talking throughout a debate hosted by Turning Level USA, a political pupil group he led. On Friday, authorities arrested Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah man suspected of capturing Kirk.
The Houston-area educators’ feedback about Kirk’s dying — which got here within the type of social media posts which have been circulated by right-leaning politicians and pundits — prompted denouncements from native college districts.
The capturing represents an act of violence amidst heightened political tensions throughout america in current months.
Houston-area state Reps. Briscoe Cain (R-Deer Park) and Terri Leo-Wilson (R-Galveston) took to social media on Wednesday to name for the firing of a instructor at Goose Creek Consolidated Unbiased Faculty District in Baytown. It occurred after the instructor reportedly prompt Kirk’s dying may have been “the implications of his actions catching up with him,” based on screenshots posted on Cain’s Fb web page.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox referred to as Kirk’s dying a “political assassination” and stated Wednesday was “a tragic day for our nation.”
“I’ll guess if the sufferer had been Black or Brown or a Democratic influencer, [Cox would] have been singing a special tune,” the Goose Creek CISD instructor additionally wrote on social media, based on the screenshots posted by Cain, who has referred to as out different native educators for allegedly making related remarks.
In a memo to households on Thursday, Goose Creek CISD Superintendent Randal O’Brien stated the district doesn’t tolerate hateful or violent rhetoric from anybody representing the district’s colleges. He stated such language is “inconsistent with our mission and has no place in our studying group.” The instructor’s employment standing wasn’t instantly clear Thursday.
One other submit that circulated on X within the aftermath of the assassination gave the impression to be from a substitute instructor in Dickinson ISD who allegedly wrote that Kirk condoned gun violence and “died in his perception.” The district responded to a flurry of backlash on social media and claimed the submit was made by a former substitute instructor who final labored within the district in 2022.
“We share locally’s deep concern and disappointment, and we wish to guarantee our households that we don’t condone, endorse or excuse feedback of this nature,” Dickinson ISD Superintendent Rebecca Brown wrote in a assertion posted on X.
Brown added that district directors and employees are “heartbroken and disturbed by the hateful and offensive nature of the remark.”
In one other assertion on Wednesday from Pasadena ISD, additionally positioned southeast of Houston, Superintendent Toni Lopez stated the college district was made conscious of insensitive feedback about Kirk’s dying that have been made by an worker.
Lopez stated the scenario was being addressed administratively.
Editor’s be aware: This story was up to date Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, with details about the termination of a Klein ISD worker.
