A decidedly left-wing teacher at a Utah public high school was caught on video during class blasting former President Donald Trump, unvaccinated individuals, climate deniers, “dumb” parents — and even threatening to make life “a living hell” for students who speak against LBGTQ students.
And now the teacher is on administrative leave, KSTU-TV reported.
The clip — which appeared to be a Q&A session on a variety of topics — began with Lehi High School chemistry teacher Leah Kinyon speaking about COVID-19 vaccines, the station said.
“I would be super proud of you if you chose to get the vaccine,” the unmasked Kinyon told her students before adding, “We’ll just keep getting variants over and over and over until people get vaccinated. It’s never going to end. … It could end in five seconds if people would get vaccinated.”
Her attention was then turned toward Trump.
“I hate Donald Trump,” an animated Kinyon told her students. “I’m going to say it. I don’t care what y’all think — Trump sucks. He’s a sexual predator. He’s a literal moron.” She soon appeared to dare a student to “tattle on me to the freakin’ admin; they don’t give a crap.”
Seconds later, Kinyon told students to “turn off the Fox News” before pivoting back to vaccines.
“This is my classroom, and if you guys are gonna put me at risk, you’re gonna hear about it,” she said. “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! And I’m not gonna pretend like it’s not. So don’t ask me to.”
Kinyon then told her students that “most of y’all parents are dumber than you. I’m gonna say that out loud. My parents are freakin’ dumb, OK? And the minute I figured that out, the world opens up. You don’t have to do everything your parents say, and you don’t have to believe everything your parents believe. Because most likely you’re smarter than them.”
One student was heard asking Kinyon, “Can I believe what I want to believe?” And she replied, “You can believe what you want to believe, but keep it quiet in here because I’m probably gonna make fun of ya.”
After Kinyon began to note “topics that you probably want to avoid in this class” — one of them being “politics, which you went into, you asked me” — she then told her students, “If you don’t believe in climate change, get the hell out.”
And when one student appeared to take issue with her climate change stance, Kinyon shot back, “That’s pathetic that you think that. You’re the problem with the world.”
She then told her students, “If you’re a homophobe, get out! ‘Cuz I’m the [Gay-Straight Alliance] faculty adviser! I love gay people. All LGBTQIA+ motherf***ers. If you don’t like it, get out! If I hear you say a damn word against any of ’em, I will open a can, and I will make your life a living hell. And they know it! If you say shizz to any LGBTQ kid in this school, I will hear about it, and you will be in trouble.”
The video ends with one student telling Kinyon, “I think I love you even more.”
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This is an excerpt from TheBlaze.
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