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Florida AG Demands Firing of History Teacher After She Targeted Conservative 8th Grader, Tried to Get Him 'Cancelled'
The Gateway Pundit ^ | September 24, 2026 | Cassandra MacDonald

Posted on 09/24/2026 1:16:56 PM PDT by Red Badger

Pine View is the public magnet for gifted students in Osprey.

Uthmeier’s Office of Parental Rights wrote in a letter on Monday that Ballard “routinely discusses political topics” and that the student told her his parents “expressly forbid” him from those debates.

The letter states Ballard "harassed, disparaged and deliberately tried to ‘cancel’ an eighth-grade student for his conservative views."

I sent a letter to Sarasota Schools after a Pine View teacher allegedly labeled an 8th grader a “misogynist” based on his political affiliation, ignored his parents’ wishes, and disparaged the child’s father.

If true, she should be fired and never teach in Florida again. pic.twitter.com/2yRnlA6k7i

— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) September 21, 2026

Despite the parents' request, Ballard allegedly kept putting him up as “the conservative perspective in the classroom,” the letter says, and “pressured him to defend political positions on demand in front of his classmates.”

Uthmeier says that Ballard called the boy a misogynist, “spread this label around the school, and openly questioned the suitability and influence of the student’s father.”

He called the targeted harassment “the reputational destruction of a child” and said it would violate Florida law, board policy, and at least six principles of professional conduct.

Multiple parents had already opened HR files on her, Uthmeier wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: florida; leftistlunatics; pineview

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To: MtnClimber

Yep.


21 posted on 09/24/2026 2:02:32 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: V_TWIN

Yup.


22 posted on 09/24/2026 2:02:39 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Ken H

Never attribute to stupidity, what can be explained by leftist malice.


23 posted on 09/24/2026 2:09:27 PM PDT by dennisw ("If they make something really good, they will inevitably stop making it." - Robert Quine)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
> ...the first guy, obviously a democrat, was presented as the normal opinion and the Conservative man was presented as the ‘odd’ opinion.

It's subtle in how each instance is done, but the effect is enormous over time. They've indoctrinated the entire country this way for decades. It's no wonder things are as screwed up as they are.

24 posted on 09/24/2026 2:14:24 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: Red Badger

If my nephew had an a-hole like THAT as his teacher Id go to the school right now and rip her a new ass, PERIOD


25 posted on 09/24/2026 2:22:51 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Red Badger

Prosecute her!


26 posted on 09/24/2026 2:36:43 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: Da Coyote

“A leftist “eddikator” has nothing to do whatsoever with “education”.
Fire them.
Kick them out.
Forbid them to come within 1,000 feet of any school.
Under penalty of death.
Really, they are that vile.”

Sort of treating them like they are a GUN !!


27 posted on 09/24/2026 2:41:39 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: Red Badger

The key here is that he is running for re-election; and that the teacher is in a union.
2 diametrically opposed positions.


28 posted on 09/24/2026 2:42:25 PM PDT by vpintheak (The left is violence.)
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To: All

Despite the parents' request, teacher Ballard allegedly kept putting the student up as “the conservative perspective in the classroom,” and “pressured him to defend political positions on demand in front of his classmates.”

Ballard called the boy a misogynist, “spread this label around the school, and openly questioned the suitability and influence of the student’s father.”

29 posted on 09/24/2026 3:09:51 PM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands. " (Psalm 19:1))
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Message: Despite the parents’ request, teacher Liz Ballard allegedly kept profiling the student as “the conservative perspective in the classroom,” and “pressured him to defend political positions on demand in front of his classmates.”

Ballard called the boy a misogynist, “spread this label around the school, and openly questioned the suitability and influence of the student’s father.”


30 posted on 09/24/2026 3:19:40 PM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands. " (Psalm 19:1))
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To: dayglored

“They’ve indoctrinated the entire country this way for decades”

On top of three generations of leftist indoctrination of kids in public schools.


31 posted on 09/24/2026 3:34:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Red Badger

Florida history teacher Liz Ballard ‘deliberately tried to cancel’ 8th grader ‘for his conservative views’

09/24/2026 4:03:08 AM PDT · by DFG · 36 replies
NY Post ^ | 09/24/2026 | Chris Bradford

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4396699/posts


32 posted on 09/24/2026 3:34:38 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

That reminds me of a 5-minute CBS radio news report I heard years ago. It was during the Clinton impeachment fiasco, a court had ruled in Clinton’s favor (later to be overturned by the Supreme Court). The report was factual, but they added just one word that made it into an editorial...

The word was “fortunately”.


33 posted on 09/24/2026 3:58:16 PM PDT by Fresh Wind
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To: V_TWIN

Sure sounds like it!


34 posted on 09/24/2026 4:29:23 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: Fiji Hill

I knew Hank....he was FABULOUS!


35 posted on 09/24/2026 4:35:21 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: dennisw

“Never attribute to stupidity, what can be explained by leftist malice.”


Quite so.


36 posted on 09/24/2026 4:38:49 PM PDT by Ken H (FReeper #240 - Dec 05, 1997)
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To: LouAvul
Among numerous personality disorders, that teacher is, plain and simple, very stupid. “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.”

Leftism is narcissism.

37 posted on 09/24/2026 5:04:44 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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