BY JENNIFER CABRERA
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has sent a letter to the School Board of Alachua County, asking for an investigation into an incident described by Crystal Marull at yesterday’s State Board of Education meeting and calling for the termination of a teacher if the investigation finds that the allegations are true.
During public comment on a recommendation from Commissioner of Education Stasi Kamoutsas to require training for school board members on the First Amendment and monitor the district for a year, Marull said, “My older son’s history teacher let students label him a ‘Naziphile,’ simply for his interest in history and his participation in ROTC. She later nominated my son as the ‘Most Likely to Become a Dictator’ and had his classmates vote on it and tried to force him to the front of the class to receive the certificate, which he rightly refused, all because of his conservative values and our perspectives.” The incident occurred in May 2023 in a history class at Gainesville High School…