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Freedom of Speech for Teachers in the U.S.? — Not if You’re a White Nationalist!<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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Florida Middle School Teacher Who Hosted White Supremacist Podcast Resigns<\/a><\/h1>\n

April 3, 2018<\/span> By JTA<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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(JTA<\/a>) \u2014 A Florida middle school teacher who hosted a white supremacist podcast and shared anti-Semitic and Islamophobic content on social media has resigned.<\/p>\n

Dayanna Volitich, a teacher at Crystal River Middle School, in the western part of the state, was removed<\/a> from her classroom early last month when the\u00a0Citrus County School District began investigating the podcast she hosted under a pseudonym.<\/p>\n

The probe started after the Huffington Post\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that using the name Tiana Dalichov, the teacher bragged about secretly injecting her beliefs into the classroom. She reportedly bashed diversity, said Muslims should be eradicated \u201cfrom the face of the Earth\u201d and praised the work of Kevin MacDonald, a retired psychology professor who holds anti-Semitic views. MacDonald has said Jews are genetically programmed to destroy Western societies,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to the Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/p>\n

Assistant Superintendent Mike Mullen said on Monday that the district received Volitich\u2019s resignation, CNN reported. The resignation is not final until the letter is accepted by the school board. Mullen said approval of the resignation will be on the agenda at the April 10 school board meeting.<\/p>\n

Volitich has claimed that her statements during the podcast, called \u201cUnapologetic,\u201d were \u201cpolitical satire and exaggeration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of the statements released about my being a white nationalist or white supremacist have any truth to them, nor are my political beliefs injected into my teaching of social studies curriculum,\u201d she said in a statement released last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This story “Florida Teacher With White Supremacist Podcast Resigns” was written by JTA.<\/p>\n

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