A California high school teacher was caught on camera admitting that his goal isn’t simply to educate kids.
It was to indoctrinate them, he said — and now he’s looking for a new job.
Maybe his socialist friends will help him?
“I have 180 days to turn [students] into revolutionaries,” Gabriel Gipe, who teaches advanced placement government at a Sacramento high school, says in the footage captured by the watchdog group Project Veritas.
He also admits he’s “as far left as you can go,” and he said his prime means of pushing kids to the left with him is to “scare the f—-k out of them!”
Project Veritas in the past has been accused of selectively editing videos. The organization has not yet released an unedited video in this case.
But there’s more. Some information, already publicly known, has been disturbing enough for parents to demand action. It was also disturbing enough for Gipe’s employer, the Natomas Unified School District, to place him on leave and release a statement saying the comment in the video is “disturbing and undermines the public’s trust.”
The district indicated it would seek to fire Gipe for multiple violations of school policy including political activity, campaign activity and more.
“They are coming for my job and what I love doing in the classroom,” Gipe complained in a second video posted by Project Veritas. He predicted the district would cave to pressure and force him out.
Indeed, parents were livid.
“I’m all for freedom of speech,” concerned parent Paizly Gomez told KCRA 3. “I’m not going to deny that, but, when you are a teacher, your job is academics. You are not here for morals, values, political views — anything like that is not welcome in the school unless it’s a private school.”
But many online pointed out that the problem isn’t just that the teacher was pushing his students into left-wing political activity.
It’s that he pushed them so openly – and that no action was taken until the Project Veritas video went viral online and received nationwide attention.
“This does not begin and end with him,” one parent, Richard Gilbert, told Good Day Sacramento. “He was enabled for years. Complaints were filed and nothing was done.”
To anyone visiting his class, the warning signs should’ve been obvious.
Even he seemed to admit to how open it was.
He told the Project Veritas interviewer, “I have an Antifa flag on my [classroom] wall and a student complained about that — he said it made him feel uncomfortable. Well, this [Antifa flag] is meant to make fascists feel uncomfortable, so if you feel uncomfortable, I don’t really know what to tell you. Maybe you shouldn’t be aligning with the values that this [Antifa flag] is antithetical to.”
The district admits that an inspection of his classroom revealed “inappropriate” materials on the wall.
They also found that he had been using rubber stamps to mark class work which “include an inappropriate image of Joseph Stalin with an insensitive phrase, as well as other stamps with Fidel Castro, Kim Jung Un and others.”
What’s more, the district said it has spoken to former students who say the teacher told them “he believes students will move to the left as a result of his class.”
The district has apologized and reportedly will let him go.
But parents worry he’s not alone – and he even admitted as much.
“There are three other teachers in my department that I did my credential program with — and they’re rad. They’re great people,” Gipe said in one of the videos. “They’re definitely on the same page.”
Now, however, they’ll have to make do with one less radical in school as O’Keefe claimed credit for getting Gipe out of the classroom.
“A lot of people say nothing ever happens to these people,” Project Veritas president James O’Keefe told the Washington Times. “Well, something just did happen, in the state of California no less, where it’s very difficult for a teacher to be fired, and effectively that’s what this unified school district is announcing they’re going to do.”
— Walter W. Murray is a reporter for The Horn News. He is an outspoken conservative and a survival expert.