A Colleyville Middle School teacher has been placed on administrative leave after a video captured an educator in the school hallway saying conservative Christians needed "to get COVID and die."
The description of a video posted by an account called CriticalRaceTheory to the Canadian video platform Rumble claims it was taken at Colleyville Middle School in Texas.
In the video, a woman is seen chatting with two other women in a hallway about vaccines and her frustration with how they've become political.
The woman said COVID vaccines were being given out the same way flu vaccines are, and said that if they had been given out immediately, the virus would be gone.
"The rest of my life is impacted because of politics?" she said. "Because of conservative Christian crap?
"I'm telling you, those conservative Christian people, they need to die, they need to get COVID and die."
In a note to parents Wednesday, the Grapevine-Colleyville school district said the teacher's statements don't reflect the views of the school district or middle school. The district said it will continue to investigate what happened.
School board president Jorge Rodriguez said in a statement sent by the school district that the board rejected the teacher's statements and that they supported the decision to place her on administrative leave until the investigation is complete.
In November, former Colleyville Heritage High School principal James Whitfield came under criticism after he was accused of teaching and promoting Critical Race Theory. Whitfield, hired in 2020, was the school's first Black principal and left the school district in November after reaching a settlement with the school district.
