Multiple Teachers Suspended Over Charlie Kirk Comments

School districts across the U.S. have suspended, reassigned, or investigated multiple educators for derogatory or inflammatory remarks, including racial slurs and social‑media posts about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death. In Greenville, N.C., D.H. Conley High School P.E. teacher and coach Matt Taylor was suspended Sept. 30 after a video surfaced showing him using profane, racially derogatory language about Black female students, Pitt County Schools said. In Peabody, Massachusetts, one of two high‑school teachers placed on leave over social‑media comments about Kirk will return to the classroom on Oct. 1 after a joint review by the district and teachers’ union, while the other resigned. In Martin County, a 17‑year veteran and teachers’ union president, Matt Theobald, was reassigned and faces possible firing amid a district investigation into alleged posts about Kirk. In Gaston County, teacher Holly Ackerman was suspended—initially with pay, later without pay—after a viral Facebook comment questioning why people were mourning Kirk prompted a district review.