A Sacramento high-school teacher who bragged to an undercover operative that it was his goal to turn his students into left-wing “revolutionaries” is facing the loss of his teaching job largely due to furious backlash after the release of a Project Veritas video. Gabriel Gipe was placed on paid leave Wednesday until the district can take the next steps to have him fired.
In the Project Veritas video, Gipe boasts, “I have 180 days to turn them [students] into revolutionaries.” When asked by the operative how he intended to do that, Gipe exclaimed, “Scare the f*ck out of them.”
The Natomas Unified School District of Sacramento sent a letter to the community informing them of the actions being taken.
“Yesterday, a group released an undercover video that has been covered extensively. In this video, a teacher at Inderkum High School was recorded sharing his educational approach that is disturbing and undermines the public’s trust,” the letter said.
“As of today, this teacher was placed on paid leave because of his actions and choices in the classroom. Natomas Unified will be taking the legally required next steps to place the teacher on unpaid leave and fire the teacher.”
The letter went on to blandly list Gipe’s infractions of school district policy, which included restrictions against distributing materials that advocated for ballot measures, using district funds for political campaign activities, and encouraging or discouraging political activities of others.
The school sanitized Gipe’s classroom, removing an Antifa flag that the teacher had hung up as well as a picture of the infamous Chairman Mao, who was responsible for tens of millions of deaths in China.
The district did not mention those items by name, only that the classroom could benefit from a “total fresh start”: “This morning, the walls of the classroom were cleared of all posters and signage. Not all of the material was inappropriate. However, the district believes the physical learning environment can best be rebuilt from a total fresh start.”
The letter also mentioned that Gipe had purchased, with his own money, several rubber stamps with which he marked work as complete. The stamps included “an inappropriate image of Josef Stalin with an insensitive phrase, as well as other stamps with Fidel Castro, Kim Jung Un and others.”
As luck would have it, September 1 was a regularly scheduled board meeting of the Natomas Unified School District. The regularly scheduled meeting largely gave way to a raucous chorus of community members complaining loudly about Gipe and the district’s seeming indifference to the situation until Project Veritas made the situation public.
The public anger was palpable in the chamber. Several speakers were not satisfied with the district’s response and called for a criminal investigation to be done, with some believing that Gipe engaged in a form of child abuse with his indoctrination methods and his pledge to “scare the f*ck out of them.”
Many were also concerned about Gipe’s claim that there were three other teachers at the school pushing the same ideology. “There are three other teachers in my department that I did my credential program with — and they’re rad. They’re great people. They’re definitely on the same page,” Gipe admitted.
Superintendent Chris Evans was asked by a Project Veritas reporter whether he was glad that the video outed Gipe, but Evans said he was prevented by committee rules to answer at that time. The superintendent did promise to speak with Project Veritas at a later time.
Many were angry that Gipe had been allowed to teach at the school for so long. “You guys fired Gabriel Gipe today … because y’all got caught yesterday,” said citizen Christopher Orr. “This guy had an Antifa flag on his wall, he had Chairman Mao on his wall — he was indoctrinating these kids every single day. He was abusing them, scaring them.”
Another common theme of the school-board meeting was that Gipe’s outlandish teaching was only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to left-wing indoctrination in the school district.
“Gabriel Gipe is a symptom, not the sickness,” Orr declared.
Gipe himself responded to the controversy in a brief video message in which he thanked supporters and played the victim. “My personal safety and security is obviously my top concern at this moment,” Gipe said, before lamenting the probable loss of his job.
“They are going to run this campaign and get public pressure behind them, and it’s very likely that the district will cave in regards to this,” Gipe complained.
It’s obvious that nothing would have been done about Gipe had it not been for the Project Veritas video. And it goes much further than a lone school district in California. Similar stories can be told from all over America about the left-wing indoctrination centers that public schools have become.
It’s far past time for Americans to take back their public schools from the dominant and pervasive left-wing ideology that controls them. The parents of the Natomas Unified School District showed us on Wednesday evening how that process begins.
