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Outrage as NY teacher ousted after helping kids start a Turning Point USA club at high school
nypost.com ^ | February 21, 2026 | Sonya Gugliara

Posted on 02/21/2026 5:36:48 PM PST by lowbridge

An upstate New York high school teacher was allegedly sidelined after she agreed to advise a Turning Point USA chapter on campus.

Jennifer Fasulo, a Spanish teacher at Charles W. Baker High School in Baldwinsville, a Syracuse suburb, was placed on a paid leave of absence on Jan. 30, just weeks after she offered to help students establish a Club America, the high school division of the Charlie Kirk co-founded conservative group, her supporters say.

“The district can confirm that a staff member has been placed on paid administrative leave while a matter is under review. We are following established administrative and legal procedures, and we are unable to comment further or share additional details at this time,” the Baldwinsville Central School informed parents in a Feb. 10 letter.

Students rallied behind Fasulo, who they described in a petition demanding her return as a victim of spiritual and political discrimination.

“We believe no educator should be punished for their personal beliefs,” according to the appeal, which has more than 2,100 signatures as of Thursday.

“This teacher is being targeted not because of her performance, but for her political beliefs,” Club America President Jerry Dygert said at a Feb. 9 board meeting.

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But some of the students’ woke parents who think otherwise want to see Fasulo out for good.

One described Turning Point as “terrifying,” because, according to their Facebook post, “the extremist mindset tends to affect boys and young men the most.”

In her post, she called for discussion about the “potential termination” of Club America’s faculty advisor.

“Organized hate groups have no place in our public schools. Would you want a KKK chapter, a neo nazi bund?” another parent wrote.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: charleswbakerhs; libviolence; newyork; ny; tpusa; turningpoint
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1 posted on 02/21/2026 5:36:48 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
t Charles W. Baker High School in Baldwinsville, a Syracuse suburb, was placed on a paid leave of absence on Jan. 30, just weeks after she offered to help students establish a Club America

Oh the horror of students organizing a club other than approved leftist ideology.

2 posted on 02/21/2026 5:42:00 PM PST by Dan Zachary
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To: lowbridge

They have Leftist clubs, see here:

https://sites.google.com/bville.org/counseling-services/clubs

Including at least:

Acceptance Coalition
Environmental Club
Envirothon Team
Voices of Feminism


3 posted on 02/21/2026 5:45:31 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Suspending my monthly donations until it becomes clear FR is run by and for conservatives.)
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To: lowbridge

Communists.


4 posted on 02/21/2026 5:45:37 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Williams

We have to start crushing people who pull crap like suspending a teacher for doing normal things. Crush them, their families everything about them.

Eliminate their power.


5 posted on 02/21/2026 5:55:33 PM PST by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I wonder what contrary point or points causes the school to have two separate tree-hugger clubs (Environmental Club and Envirothon Team).

All isn’t as copacetic in Leftist Land as they’d like us to believe.


6 posted on 02/21/2026 5:57:28 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (simulating wisdom at discount prices.)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

Agreed. They need to be so destroyed that their lives serve as a warning to others.


7 posted on 02/21/2026 6:02:00 PM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1997 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: lowbridge
"was placed on a paid leave of absence on Jan. 30,"

TPUSA has some really good lawyers, at a minimum the school system might feel a little pain in spite of it being in far-left in the Syracuse area.
8 posted on 02/21/2026 6:05:59 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: lowbridge
This explains it. From another source:

"A teacher at C.W. Baker High School is under investigation for questioning a student who came out as bisexual, according to the student’s mother."

9 posted on 02/21/2026 6:09:19 PM PST by simpson96
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To: lowbridge

“...the extremist mindset tends to affect boys and young men the most...”. They are terrified that boys and young men will grow up to be, men. More specifically, biblical men and that is not acceptable in their emasculated world.


10 posted on 02/21/2026 6:12:26 PM PST by GMThrust
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To: GMThrust; lowbridge
“...the extremist mindset tends to affect boys and young men the most...”. They are terrified that boys and young men will grow up to be, men. More specifically, biblical men and that is not acceptable in their emasculated world.

Exactly. They are terrified of the effective leadership of conservative American boys and young men. They are our future.

11 posted on 02/21/2026 6:28:39 PM PST by thecodont
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To: SteelPSUGOP

Did any of the universities get crushed when they allowed the free Palestine BS and allowed anti-jew harrasment to go unpunished? Has all their federal funding been cut permanently?


12 posted on 02/21/2026 6:36:05 PM PST by Blue Highway ( )
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To: Theo

but nothing ever happens


13 posted on 02/21/2026 6:37:05 PM PST by Blue Highway ( )
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To: lowbridge

Our governor, Jim Pillen, is pushing for Turning Point USA chapters in all Nebraska high schools. Of course, the leftists are going nuts about how this is conservative indoctrination.....But probably also insist that there are some LGBT or whatever clubs in all of the schools......


14 posted on 02/21/2026 7:07:35 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: SteelPSUGOP

crush them
damn straight !!


15 posted on 02/21/2026 7:35:40 PM PST by A strike (GB,F,D : "Let's you and him fight" u.s,russia)
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To: lowbridge

The principal and school board administrators at Charles W. Baker High School in Baldwinsville needs to be fired and encouraged to leave the town because they are undesirables.

They should also be sued into oblivian for violating the 14th Amendment rights of the teacher.


16 posted on 02/21/2026 8:01:07 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: A strike

I want to start a Penochete club.


17 posted on 02/21/2026 8:01:25 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: lowbridge

Do something wholesome and positive for kids in a public school and you get fired? It is the Administration and the School Board who need to be fired!


18 posted on 02/21/2026 8:08:01 PM PST by drypowder
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To: lowbridge

Meanwhile in the Chicago suburbs high school kids are ditching school time with teachers encouragement to protest ICE.


19 posted on 02/21/2026 9:13:55 PM PST by ne1410s (2 Tim 4:3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.)
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