Former Walled Lake Western High School teacher Justin Kucera tells his story and defends his tweets on 'Fox & Friends.'
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Ainsley, a Michigan High School
Ainsley, a Michigan High school
teacher out of a job after
tweeting in support of president
Trump
earlier this month, social
studies, teacher and baseball
coach at this high school Justin
Kuera, im tired of being silent.
Donald Trump is our President
dont at me.
He was told he either could
resign or be fired
a former teacher at Wild Lake
Western High School and he joins
us. Now.
Am I pro nowptioning your last
name right, Justin?
Yes,
thanks for having me
Ainsley, you are welcome.
So what happened?
Tell us the story.
I sent out a tweet, a couple
tweets on. It was Monday, the sixth,
in support of President Trump
one was a retweet of President
Trump saying that school should
open in the fall followed by the
tweet that you just read as well
as a comment and a reply to one
of my followers who had said a
comment that kind of sucks how
liberals try to divide us, and I
commented back-
I was questioned about those
three tweets in a zoom meeting
with district administrators
where they, let me kind of
explain my reasoning behind them,
and I just you know I said I
had think schools we need to
open and I think we need to
support our president
and thats what the tweets were
about
a couple days later. They
followed up with another meeting
and thats where they gave me
the choice to resign, where I
told them no
and the option was to be
terminated.
Ainsley the school district
sent this statement to us.
No disciplinary action was taken
as a result of any support of
president Trump, and we are
unable to comment on specific
staff discipline personnel
matters.
So if you werent fired because
you support the president and
because you are conservative,
why were you fired
so I think they are going
with the anticipated reaction
from students and parents.
So if you see all the comments
that my tweet got, it got a lot
of positive comments and got
some negative comments as well.
I think the school district
officials were using that, as
you know, complaints that
students might not be in my
class that it would impede the
operation of the school
Ainsley. Looking back, do you
regret it?
Not at all
I apologize to the school
district for the negative
attention it brought them buff.
Not for what I said.
Nothing in the tweets are
inappropriate.
I wanted to union fight and
meant to be a unifying tweet to
support the president, regardless
of if you agree with him or not,
we should be supporting
Ainsley. You said other teachers
have posted negative comments
about the president.
Is that a double standard if
they are not fired
it has to be?
I dont know what else you would
call it.
What I did is no different than
what other teachers do on social
media.
The only difference was mine was
in support of president Trump
and theirs are not
Ainsley wish you all the best,
its all nice to see a young man
in the classroom influencing our
kids and my mom is a teacher, and
so is my sister.
God bless you.
I know how hard you work for.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-29.