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Local teacher’s D.C. trip on insurrection day leads to calls for firing, and some defenders
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
Posted Feb 12, 2021
With the Washington Monument in the background, people attend a rally in support of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.AP File Photo/Jose Luis Magana
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The facts aren’t yet in as far as the Allentown School District is concerned, but community members had a message Thursday night for the school board: Fire Jason Moorehead.
Moorehead is the Raub Middle School teacher who was in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, and whose presence there was enough for the district to announce without naming him that he’d been suspended Jan. 7.