The Moreno Valley Unified School District has placed a history teacher on administrative leave after he gave a profane lecture to students about Donald Trump, the day after the former president won a second term.
A Valley View High School history teacher called President Trump a “rapist draft evader coward” during an emotionally distraught lecture Wednesday, according to a recording of the lecture posted on X by a conservative commentator.
The school district has not publicly identified the teacher, but the teacher, whom X commentators identified as Maximiliano C. Perez, told students that the reason black and Latino voters don’t support Kamala Harris is because she He reportedly said that Latino voters will not support Kamala Harris because of her “vagina and uterus.” People who support Trump want to be white.
“This game is not a game,” the teacher told the students. “Will human rights go away? Yes. Will it happen to you? Probably not. That’s good, but has Donald Trump ever quoted Hitler? Yes. Does it embody some of it? Yes.
A spokesperson for the Moreno Valley Unified School District told news station KABC that the teacher has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the incident.
“We have recently learned of an incident at a high school where a staff member’s discussion of election results was unprofessional,” a spokesperson told the news station. “We do not condone this kind of behavior and have immediately launched an investigation.”
The school district did not respond to requests for comment.
A petition on Change.org calling for the reinstatement of the teacher, known as Mr. Perez, has more than 1,200 signatures in support of his return to the classroom. Maximiliano Perez is listed as the AP history teacher on the school’s website.
The teachers union representing Moreno Valley Unified School District employees did not respond to a request for comment on the teacher’s situation, and teachers were not immediately available for comment.
At least two students who spoke to KABC said they understood the teacher’s lecture was intended to falsify the election results, and that the teacher apologized to several students after the class.
“I think they’re trying to make him out to be the bad guy because of what he said,” student Michael James told the news station. She was in class during the teacher’s lecture. “I think it was a very strong tone, but that’s the way he lectures as a professor.”
“It’s really shocking to know that they are trying to get rid of him because of his opinions,” student Sarah Ghawi told the news station.
Students are planning a walkout this week to protest the district’s decision.
