Posted on 04/02/2018 3:40:53 PM PDT by rarestia
Dayanna Volitich, the Crystal River Middle School history teacher who is under investigation for allegedly expressing white nationalist and alt-right views on a podcast she hosted under a pseudonym, has resigned, according to Citrus County Schools.
In March 2018, a report of Volitich hosting a podcast called "Unapologetic" under the name "Tiana Dalichov" surfaced on the Huffington Post website. At the time, Volitich was a Social Studies teacher at the school.
In a clip from the podcast — Volitich allegedly talks about hiding her political beliefs from administrators and agreed with a guest she was interviewing that people who share white nationalist opinions need to infiltrate schools and "take them back."
Upon learning of the report, Citrus County Schools issued a statement saying they'd removed Volitich from the classroom and initiated an investigation.
Volitich later issued a statement through her attorney stating that she was not, in fact, a white nationalist, and that in the podcast she "employed political satire and exaggeration, mainly to the end of attracting listeners and followers."
According to the school district, Volitich's resignation will not be final until it is reviewed by the school board, pursuant to School Board policy, and that the investigation into Volitich's case is still ongoing.
Some parents and grandparents of children who attend or will be attending Crystal River Middle expressed relief and guarded optimism about Volitich's departure.
"Very happy about it, very happy," said Deborah McNeil, whose grandson attends the school. "Just fearful she will go to another school with other children."
"We'll definitely be monitoring this a whole bunch," said Doug Nicholson, whose grandson will be entering middle school at Crystal River soon. "Get a fresh start somewhere else and maybe use her head this next time."
The review of her resignation is scheduled for the next school board meeting on April 10.
I find it funny they have to review her resignation before they can accept it.
Ah yes, the litmus test.
This, I too, have failed.
TOWTSSITKS
I really dislike the term “white nationalist”. There’s nothing wrong with being white of course and there’s nothing wrong with being a nationalist (loving one’s country).
It sounds like a dog whistle term for the alt-leftist communists. Red meat.
From Wikipedia, with respect to the Stasi:
One of its main tasks was spying on the population, mainly through a vast network of citizens turned informants, and fighting any opposition by overt and covert measures, including hidden psychological destruction of dissidents (Zersetzung, literally meaning decomposition).
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