High school kids in notoriously blue state fight back after teacher called Charlie Kirk 'garbage'

Daily Mail UK ^ | November 12, 2025 | Anna Wright

[Morgana]

A group of Rhode Island high school students are rallying in support of Charlie Kirk after a teacher mocked the conservative activist's assassination and called him 'garbage.'

Students at Barrington High School responded to the social studies teacher's callous September remarks by launching a Turning Point USA chapter to promote free speech and expression.

'What inspired me personally to start this Turning Point chapter was [what] the teacher at our school said after Charlie Kirk's death,' Brayden Ryan, vice president of the Turning Point USA chapter, told Fox News Digital.

'He made a TikTok about how he has no remorse over him and how he was a hateful person.'

The teacher, Benjamin Fillo, filmed the video shortly after Kirk's death, saying he had 'no sympathy' for the 31-year-old following his murder.

Fillo also described Kirk was a 'man who hated the LGBTQ community, women's rights, and democracy.'

'[Kirk] thought he was a big man because he went to college campuses and debated young college students and thought he proved how tough he was with his words that he studied ahead of time,' Fillo continued in the video.

He then slammed Kirk as 'garbage,' saying 'this is what happens.'

'Bye Charlie,' he concluded.

Fillo, whose LinkedIn profile says he has worked in the school district since 2010, was placed on administrative leave after the video sparked outrage in the community.

The Daily Mail reached out to Fillo and Turning Point USA for comment.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: arth; education

[Bruce Buckley]

Plato (via Socrates) – The Republic

In The Republic, Books II–III, Socrates repeatedly asks questions of this kind, including:

Who should educate the young guardians?

Who is qualified to shape their character?

What stories, poetry, and music should they be taught?

What must be censored or excluded because it forms bad character?

[SaveFerris]

These people are unbelievable 😨😯😲😯

[fuzzylogic]

IMHO - largely because most of them are women and they suffer from group-think. The NEA is notoriously leftist. All the material they hear is leftist. They “all vote Democrat because we’re teachers” mentality.

I have a sister-in-law that told me that’s how they vote. I asked why is that? You could see the gears turning, alternative opinions aren’t even considered - it was as though she’d never thought about it. She also severed the relationship with my wife, we’re pretty sure we know why - even though she didn’t even have the guts to say.

To be a teacher is to be pre-LGBTQIA+. It is to be a feminist. It is to be “pro-anything feelings driven”, regardless of facts or outcomes - especially if that is to the detriment of straight white boys. As one teacher proclaimed, “get to the back of the class, you’ve had your time”. This mentality is common, even if some don’t admit it. The only question is “to what degree” does a given teacher think this way.

Then there’s the epidemic of female teachers having sex with students - if this were reversed we’d be seeing huge sentences, but we don’t.

And we wonder why the competency levels of our kids are getting lower by the decade.

[yldstrk]

That “teacher” needs to be fired. What a demented lunatic.

[yldstrk]

Ugly and stupid is no way to go through life.

[fuzzylogic]

When you hear somebody have this opinion, they don’t seem to realize they’re just “outing their own ignorance” - speaking what they’ve heard from their bubble and are too lazy to do their own homework.

It’s like a movie that is about a dog, somebody says they watched the movie and you ask them “what was it about?” and they reply “it was about a cat”. It’s that simple, clearly you’ve not watched the movie.

Anyone that has watched any of Charlie’s videos at length knows the “LBGT/feminist/democracy hater” narrative to be the garbage. It’s impossible, and logically wrong, to say otherwise.

Maybe the quickest litmus test to see where somebody is at politically is to ask, “what do you think of Charlie Kirk?”.

[dforest]

This admin needs to really focus on the American schools. The left has turned them into a disgrace.

[Elsie]

I’m proud of these students for standing up for Charlie.

They are 'standing' for a hell of a lot more than just Charlie!

 

4 June 1940

“I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty’s Government-every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation.

The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”

 

[SaveFerris]

Yeah 😅😃😆😂😂🤣🤣😂

[SaveFerris]

[That “teacher” needs to be fired]

And IMMEDIATELY

[LGBTQ+]

TRUTH SOUNDS LIKE HATE TO
THOSE WHO HATE THE TRUTH

[mewzilla]

Because we have public sector schools.

[Clay Moore]

I notice the first thing he mentioned was poofters, my guess is because he is one.

[DeplorableTrumpSupporter]

Filo is one reason why our kids will never be in Public Indoctrination Centers. Filo needs to teach in a country he loves...

Mayor be he should teach in Venezuela or another craphole of a country.

[FlingWingFlyer]

These incidents with these communist “teachers” shows why school kids are so retarded. The “teachers” aren’t “teaching.” They are programming the kids and brainwashing them into communism. It’s time for school districts to start vetting the crap they are bringing in to their classrooms.

[packrat35]

They took over everything and still infest it today. Most churches have this infection also.

[packrat35]

Tucker and Candace both need to be removed from Turning Point.

[MayflowerMadam]

Candace was removed long ago. In her deluded mind, and trying to connect to charlie’s recent popularity, she talks and acts like she Queen Bee of Turning Point. I think she was heavily involved in the top tier of it for maybe two years. Otherwise just tangential.

Now she’s saying that the assassination was an inside job, set up by Mikey McCoy and his preacher father. What a loon.