by Emma Colton at Fox News
A Utah chemistry teacher is out of a job following a viral video showing her telling a high school class, “I hate Donald Trump” at the start of the new school year.
“I hate Donald Trump. I’m gonna say it. I don’t care what y’all think. Trump sucks,” the former Lehi High School teacher told her class on Tuesday, according to a video that has been viewed more than 700,000 times.
The teacher was identified as Leah Kinyon, according to Fox 13, which spoke to a mother of one of the students in the class.
At least one student pushed back on Kinyon in the video, asking her why she hates the former president.
“He’s a sexual predator,” she responded. “He’s a literal moron.”
Another student is also heard saying, “This is a chemistry class.”
“Go tattle on me to the freakin’ admin. They don’t give a crap,” she responded to that student.
“This is my classroom and if you guys are going to put me at risk, you’re going to hear about it,” Kinyon continued in the video, referring to the coronavirus, “Because I have to be here, I don’t have to be happy about the fact that there’s kids coming in here with their variants that could possibly get me or my family sick, that’s rude.”
“I would be super proud of you if you chose to get the vaccine,” Kinyon added. “We’ll just keep getting variants over and over until people get vaccinated … It could end in five seconds if people would get vaccinated.”
Kinyon was immediately placed on administrative leave after the video surfaced, and the Alpine School District launched an investigation. The district said in a later statement that the teacher is no longer an employee of the district…
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