The 1819 News posted an article on Monday reporting that Lauren Ogen, a Capitol Heights Middle School teacher, who posted a video on TikTok video celebrating the killing of Charlie Kirk, has been placed on administrative leave. I can understand celebrating the death of someone like Adolph Hitler or Osama Bin-Laden, although I wouldn’t necessarily post a video of it, but Charlie Kirk never killed anyone, or as far as I can see, never ever raised his voice against anyone. Why, in the mind of this schoolteacher, did he deserve to die? Charlie Kirk believed in dialogue and debate. Isn’t that something this teacher should have been teacher her students?

The article reports:

Lauren Ogen, a Capitol Heights Middle School teacher, reportedly posted on TikTok that she told her daughter, “down with the bigots,” after learning of Kirk’s assassination while speaking at a college campus in Utah on Wednesday.

If she had bothered to do her own research, she would have discovered that Charlie Kirk was not a bigot.

The article notes:

We need this right now. We really need this right now. As a community, we need this. We need this win,” Ogen reportedly said on the video. “When we get home and (my daughter) does in fact confirm that he died, I said, ‘I hope it was traumatic and I hope he suffered, the way that we’re suffering because of the bigoted bullshit he spoke.’ Again, down with the dirty big heads and the bigots.”

Montgomery Public Schools superintendent Zickeyous Byrd said in an email obtained by 1819 News to MPS officials on Friday that the video by the Capitol Heights teacher “sparked community concern” and “violated district policy.”

“Out of an abundance of caution for both the safety of the teacher and the school community, I am placing the employee on administrative leave effective immediately. Furthermore, I will be recommending this teacher for termination at our next Board meeting,” Byrd said. “Please know that this decision was not taken lightly, but the seriousness of the policy violation combined with the safety concerns requires swift action. Our priority must remain on maintaining a professional, respectful, and safe environment for our students, staff, and community.”

My concern is also for the daughter she is raising–is she being taught to think or indoctrinated?