Georgia Clark is the Fort Worth, Texas woman who lost her teaching job after a series of tweets about immigration.
Georgia Clark is the Fort Worth, Texas woman who lost her teaching job after a series of tweets about immigration. Clark tweeted at President Trump, urging him to do something about what she called the “illegal students” who, she said, had “taken over” the school where she worked. One of the tweets said, “Mr. President, Fort Worth Independent School District is loaded with illegal students from Mexico. Carter-Riverside High School has been taken over by them. Drug dealers are on our campus and nothing was done to them.”
On Tuesday night, the Fort Worth ISD board of trustees voted unanimously to end Georgia Clark’s contract. Here’s what you need to know:
This teacher works at a school that is over 80% Latino. https://t.co/DR8MJbDPULpic.twitter.com/kSObAr9tjB
Emily M. Farris (@emayfarris) May 29,2019
Clark tweeted out a series of messages to President Trump in May. “Mr President, Fort Worth Independent School District is loaded with illegal students from Mexico,” one of the tweets from May 17 said. Another tweet read, “Anything you can do to remove the illegals from Fort Worth would be greatly appreciated.” Clark has since deleted her Twitter account, @Rebecca1939.
She said afterward that she had thought she was sending private messages to the president and that she never meant to broadcast her immigration views to the world. Her tweets angered parents and students at the school, with parents calling her “cruel” and asking why she had been allowed to stay in her job for so long.
Fort Worth ISD school board has voted to terminate Georgia Clark. She has the right to appeal to TEA commissioner. Has to make that decision within 15 days.
