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A Chicago-area teacher has been forced to resign from his position over a post he made on Facebook indicating support for ICE. James Heidorn’s two-word post simply read, “Go ICE,” but it drew massive blowback from community members and elected officials.
Even the mayor of West Chicago, Daniel Bovey, posted a video about Heidorn’s comment on Facebook and blasted it as “hurtful” and “offensive.” This is now being pointed to as an example of anti-conservative bias in education.
Jonathan Butcher, acting director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, said: “When you have teachers leading students out of school and protesting and interrupting instructional time, those teachers don’t seem to be facing the same levels of scrutiny.”
Butcher went on to call out the politicians who attacked Heidorn, saying: “This is an opportunistic chance for those on the left to sort of garner approval from their constituents. It’s not taking the law seriously, and it’s not taking education seriously.”
He added that at the end of the day, it’s going to be Heidorn’s students who end up paying the price for all of this and called the whole issue a distraction from the serious issue of falling education quality.
