A California school district was blasted for not firing the high school teacher who went viral for his profanity-laced, post-election rant against Donald Trump, calling the president-elect a rapist and comparing him to Hitler.
The Moreno Valley Unified School District board meeting on Tuesday turned chaotic when multiple parents called for the firing of AP history educator Maximiliano Perez because of his mid-class meltdown on Nov. 6.
Furious parents of all backgrounds took turns during Tuesday’s board meeting to call out Perez’s racist remarks and the school district that has yet to fire the problematic teacher.
Perez, who also called the 45th and future 47th president a “rapist, draft dodging coward,” was placed on administrative leave as the school district investigated his rant.
“It is time that the school district stops tolerating hate speech in class, there should be zero tolerance for hate speech,” one mother argued according to video shared online by education activist Corey DeAngelis.
“To say that a Hispanic man wants to be White .. I’m offended. Yo soy Mexicana. I am Chicana. I am Indigenous, and my family voted for Trump .. [the teacher] should be FIRED .. You are put on notice,” she said.
One father called out the students who gave their support for Perez after the teacher aimed his comments towards the Hispanic population, which makes up 75% of the school district’s student population.
“What [Mr. Perez] just did is make the most racist comment, to tell them that their fathers, that if they voted for Trump, that they only did it because they wish they were White. That is the worst of it all. Shame on him,” the father said.
“He said things that should have never been said. He used profane language .. He has a right to say those things, but not at our schools. That was just crossing the line .. there needs to be some major consequences.”
The disturbing rant, recorded by one of the students in class and viewed over two million times, captured Perez calling out his students’ families saying they were the reason Trump was elected.
“This s–t is not a f–king game!” the teacher said to the classroom full of students.
“Can you end up with no human rights? Yes. Will it happen to you? Most likely not. Which is a good thing, but has Donald Trump quoted Hitler? Yes. Does he embody some of Hitler’s ideas? Yes,” Perez said in lecture-style questions to his students.
The embattled teacher went on to claim Vice President Kamala Harris lost to Trump because she has a “vagina and a uterus” and “melanin,” and admitted to crying for a week when she replaced Joe Biden on the ballot in July.
“Donald Trump won.. because Black men and Brown men didn’t show up to vote for Kamala Harris,” Perez allegedly said. “I know a lot of Latino men on this campus that love Donald Trump and he has called their mothers rapists. He has called their fathers rapists.. and they did vote for him.”
“I know a lot of Latino men who wish they were White, and they’d never admit it to you,” he added. “A lot of your fathers. A lot of your uncles. A lot of your grandfathers. God they wanna be White so bad but they never will be. I hate that s–t. I hate Latino men that oppress the women in their family, their own daughters”
Students backing Perez shared the positive experiences they had of the educator, with one claiming her life was saved by the teacher during a battle with mental health issues, while another asked if her teacher was going to be fired over his one rant.
“I believe that the way he approached it was a little unprofessional,” student Ezell Moreno said before the board meeting according to the LA Times. “I believe that he had good faith, but is he going to be fired for one incident when he’s done so many good things throughout his time as a teacher?”
Another student claimed Perez never forced his beliefs on the students with others urging the school board to keep the teacher working as he is an “essential figure.”
“(He is an) essential figure for many students here, not just as an educator, but as a mentor, a supporter and a guide through some of the most challenging moments of our lives,” student Damian Ayonn said.
