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Wisconsin teacher placed on leave after social media post advocating to 'make Americans great assassins again'
A Wisconsin teacher was placed on leave following controversial comments in which he said he was "not impressed with recent presidential assassins."
Kaukauna High School social studies teacher Patrick Meyer suggested that the four men who successfully assassinated a U.S. president — John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz and Lee Harvey Oswald — must be rolling over in their graves after recent failed attempts to kill a president.
"I am not impressed with recent presidential assassins. It's f---ing embarrassing! Booth, Guiteau, Czolgosz, Oswald must all be spinning in their graves! MAGAA (make Americans great assassins again)! Sad!" Meyer said in a since-deleted post on X, appearing to mock President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again, or MAGA, slogan.
The Kaukauna Area School District released a statement on Monday saying it had been made aware of the post and that Meyer, who has worked as a teacher in the district for more than 20 years, had been placed on administrative leave....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/wisconsin-teacher-placed-leave-social-022157556.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Kaukauna High School social studies teacher Patrick Meyer suggested that the four men who successfully assassinated a U.S. president — John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz and Lee Harvey Oswald — must be rolling over in their graves after recent failed attempts to kill a president.
"I am not impressed with recent presidential assassins. It's f---ing embarrassing! Booth, Guiteau, Czolgosz, Oswald must all be spinning in their graves! MAGAA (make Americans great assassins again)! Sad!" Meyer said in a since-deleted post on X, appearing to mock President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again, or MAGA, slogan.
The Kaukauna Area School District released a statement on Monday saying it had been made aware of the post and that Meyer, who has worked as a teacher in the district for more than 20 years, had been placed on administrative leave....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/wisconsin-teacher-placed-leave-social-022157556.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
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