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Controversial Utah school board member draws fire for posts accusing teacher of promoting communism
Jordan School District says the allegations are not true.
Natalie Cline | Updated: Feb. 19, 2021, 1:07 a.m.
Utah’s state school board distanced itself Thursday from a member after she attacked a teacher on social media publicly posting the teacher’s name, the school where she works and accusing her, without offering evidence
, of instructing students that “communism is better than our form of government.”
Board member Natalie Cline also encouraged her followers to share the information and urged them to “take action” against the middle school English teacher. Several responded by calling on social media for the teacher to be fired for indoctrinating kids and urging the teacher to leave the country.
Utah school board member faces backlash for online comments
February 2, 2021 GMT
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Some Utah parents and teachers have called for the removal of a conservative state school board member for posting comments they consider racist, homophobic and uniformed.
Natalie Cline, who represents District 11 on the Utah State Board of Education, was sworn into office Jan. 6 after election to the board in November.
A MoveOn.org petition, which had more than 4,000 signatures Monday, says Cline “promotes discriminatory and unethical rhetoric to the public” while promoting her views on the board.
Beyond the petition seeking Cline’s ouster, LGBTQ and racial justice advocacy groups including the Utah Pride Center, Equality Utah, the Utah state chapter of Black Lives Matter and the Salt Lake City branch of the NAACP condemned her comments.