Update:
As this story was being published on Friday, the Flordia Department of Education released this statement about the situation at Fox Chapel Middle School:
According to local reports, the teacher did remain actively teaching in school until the state Depart of Education got involved and forced the school to take action.
But until the Daily Caller reported on the story on Thursday, making this national news, the school had kept the individual in the classroom around kids even after the violent threats.
So, for now, this teacher has been removed from duty while further investigation takes place.
Thanks to the Florida Department of Education for stepping in to protect students when the school refused to do so.
Umm, so this is absolutely TERRIFYING coming from the anti-woke state of Florida.
According to multiple parents, a transgender teacher (a man who thinks he's a woman) at a middle school in Hernando County, Florida made a threat to hurt himself as well as shoot students recently.
The school has done nothing about it.
According to the Daily Caller, Alexander Renczkowski, who now goes by "Ashlee," caused an incident at the school that required the vice principal and school counselor to call in the School Resource Officer (SRO) and file a report on the violent threats made by the trans teacher.
According to the VP and counselor, Renczkowski made violent threats toward himself and towards students, requiring intervention from the SRO. This happened back in March, one week before the "trans day of vengeance" and shortly before a transgender person shot up a school in Nashville.
The teacher... admitted to having "bad thoughts" but denied threatening to shoot students and said "she does not want to harm herself," according to the report.
According to the report, the Hernando County School District's mental health coordinator, Sandra Hurst, then conducted a threat assessment on Renczkowski, determining he did not meet the criteria of the Baker Act, a Florida law that allows for involuntary institutionalization of mentally ill individuals. A deputy later collected three firearms and ammunition from Renczkowski's home, according to the report.
The person was so dangerous that the Florida police thought it was justified to take his guns away, and he was back in the classroom the next day with no repercussions.
You can understand why parents might be upset that this episode was hidden from them.
If it wasn't for local news reporters, the school would have successfully covered the whole thing up.
"The school didn't say anything. I found out this Easter weekend when I read the article that came out," Jacqueline Gioiosa, a parent whose eighth grade child was one of Renczkowski's students, told the Caller.
Gioiosa said she confronted school principal Carmine Rufa about the incident when parents finally received a call from the school about the threat 17 days after the incident occurred.
The school sent out a recorded phone call 17 days after the incident that acknowledged it took place.
But they have taken no action against the teacher and still won't respond to concerned parents.
Although, if I was a parent, I would never let my kid back into the school until I knew this person was fired.
It's an insanely dangerous situation and this school is absolutely fumbling this entire thing by covering up for this trans teacher.
Police finally acknowledged the incident in a press release issued Wednesday, the morning after the school board meeting.
"On 03-24-23, the HCSO was notified of, and did investigate, an event at Fox Chapel Middle School," the release reads. "The investigation revealed that no criminal offense(s) occurred; therefore, no arrest(s) could be made."
The wife of this man also claims to be a "mermaid" according to the Caller, and many parents believe this coverup is because of the LGBT identities of the couple.
Florida needs to deal with this quickly.
