Virginia teacher suspended after reportedly making pro-Russia comments amid war with Ukraine


A substitute teacher at AN metropolis, Virginia, lycee has been suspended for reportablely creating pro-Russia comments amid the Russia-Ukraine war.

Arlington Public colleges representative Frank Bellavia confirmed to Fox News Digital that John Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 65, of Swanson lycee "has been suspended for the rest of the year." "Because it’s a personnel matter, I can’t offer the other details," Bellavia same in an email. Stanton told The Washington Post, that first reported on his suspension, that he spoke concerning the Ukraine-Russia war for the primary ten minutes of an hour-and-a-half-long Spanish lesson last Friday ANd same he was making an attempt to gift students with a special viewpoint. "I said, ‘Here’s what’s going on,’" Elizabeth Cady Stanton told the outlet, adding that the statement he thinks got him in bother was once he said, "'I in person support the logic of Putin.'" "[W]hat I meant by that is, he created a rational call from his perception," Stanton told Post. oldsters said in an email to the metropolis board of education that Stanton' comments to students expressing support for Russia and asking if anyone "hated" the country was "Russian propaganda" and "advocacy of political positions," per the Post. The substitute teacher, who same he presently writes for Russian state newspaper Pravda — the previous official newspaper of the former Soviet Union' Communist Party — additionally reportedly inspired students to browse shops like Sputnik, a Russian state news website. His resume shared with the post also said he worked as a research worker for the yankee Enterprise Institute, hosted a "political/cultural radio program" in D.C. within the Nineteen Eighties and worked as an "independent journalist." A Feb. twenty eight op-ed from Elizabeth Cady Stanton published by Pravda states that the U.S. owns "every country" in NATO, which the West' efforts to produce "anti-tank ANd anti-aircraft weapons" to Ukraine is "great news" for Western Defense Contractors. He additionally wrote that "the solely thanks to type an opinion" concerning the Russia-Ukraine conflict "is to look at the maximum amount from Russian and Western sources as is humanly possible." "Any support airy by anyone on the West for the Russian position gets mauled and derided by pro-West pundits," he wrote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton also referred to as the 2014 Ukraine-Russia conflict leading to the annexation of Crimea a "US sponsored coup in Ukraine." Elizabeth Cady Stanton told the Post that whereas he understands why his transient lesson to lycee students concerning completely different opinions on the Ukraine-Russia war is inappropriate, he same that if he may reach "one student" who wished to be told more, he "would have a go at it again."

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