Controversial Utah school board member draws fire for posts accusing teacher of promoting communism

Utah’s state school board distanced itself Thursday from a member after she attacked a teacher on social media — publicly posting the teacher’s name, the school where she works and accusing her, without offering evidence, of instructing students that “communism is better than our form of government.”

Board member Natalie Cline also encouraged her followers to share the information and urged them to “take action” against the middle school English teacher. Several responded by calling on social media for the teacher to be fired for indoctrinating kids and urging the teacher to leave the country.

Some also sent the teacher threats via direct messages, according to the Jordan School District, which also said Cline’s allegations about her are not true.

Cline removed the teacher’s name after some commenters raised concerns about the public reactions, but she did not take down the original comments. At that point, the posts — which appeared Monday on both Cline’s personal Facebook page and on a public page for conservative Utah parents — had already been shared hundreds of times.

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