Chicago teacher placed on leave after Facebook post supporting ICE sparks outrage from activists
FIRST ON FOX: A Chicago area physical education teacher is on administrative leave and facing calls to lose his job over a Facebook post last week offering support for Immigration...
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FIRST ON FOX: A Chicago area physical education teacher is on administrative leave and facing calls to lose his job over a Facebook post last week offering support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). "GO ICE," the teacher at West Chicago’s Gary Elementary School, posted on Facebook last week. Shortly after the post was made, activists in the predominantly Hispanic community quickly began sharing the post and calling for action to be taken against the teacher, who Fox News Digital is not naming due to safety concerns. "Imagine working as a teacher in an elementary school in West Chicago where the Latino community is highly populated and promoting ICE, sick AF," one social media post said. Another commenter called the teacher a "f****** piece of s***." GOT A SCOOP ON CAMPUS? SEND US A TIP HERE Activists began circulating a flyer online, with a Change.org petition , calling for the employee's job and for students to stay home from school in protest, saying, "the casual way in which he publicly promoted the actions of ICE in our area is inappropriate and unsuitable for an educator." "The best way to show our district that we need action to be taken – is to show them that keeping this teacher will disrupt the emotional welfare and therefore, the education of our students," the flyer said. Fox News Digital could not independently locate the employee's comment or the Facebook post that the employee was responding to and his account appears to have been deleted. The Change.org petition described the comment as being "in response to a community article." Local leaders also got involved, including Karina Villa, an Illinois state Senator representing the 25th District, who posted a message saying she stands in "unwavering solidarity" with families upset about the "disturbing comments reportedly made by an educator." SOCIAL MEDIA ERUPTS OVER 'DERANGED' TEACHER MOCKING CHARLIE KIRK'S DEATH IN 'NO KINGS' VIRAL VIDEO Villa went on to acknowledge that freedom of speech…