Colorado Springs School District 11 Superintendent Michael Gaal recommended termination of McAuliffe Elementary School teacher Angelica Givler-Viers during last night’s board of education meeting.
“I’m recommending to the Board of Education that Angelica Givler-Viers, a teacher at McAuliffe Elementary School, be dismissed from her employment with the district on the statutory grounds of insubordination, neglect of duty and/or other good and just cause,” said Gaal. “No action is required by the Board of Education this time.”
Givler-Viers, a literacy teacher, has been on administrative leave since October, which she says is retaliation over her support of the Oct. 8 strike. “This all started when I was posting on my public, personal social media leading up to our strike,” she said. “I was removed from my classroom on Oct. 6, and in that meeting they told me that it was so that they could investigate whether my social media violated any school board policies or laws. But they could not tell me which social medias or which policies or laws were violated, and when I asked multiple times in multiple meetings and emails, they have yet to provide me with that.”…