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America’s far-left public school teachers just can’t seem to help themselves. Even in this day-and-age, when nearly every child comes to class equipped with a Chromebook and smartphone, the vitriol of these educators is so extreme that it trumps professional discipline and restraint. It needs an outlet and an audience to achieve its apotheosis.
In the most recent instance, that audience consisted of a class of Ohio high school social studies students who were treated to a highly inappropriate and venomous rant targeting President Trump and his military campaign against the Muslim dictatorship of Iran.
The perpetrator has been identified as Scott Lane, a social studies teacher at Steubenville High School in Steubenville, Ohio. In his blatantly partisan and egregiously inappropriate rant, an audio recording of which was apparently captured by a student and later released by the X account LibsofTikTok, Lane managed to insult and defame not only President Trump but also the military heroes putting their lives on the line to defend America and overthrow the repressive and dictatorial Iranian regime.
The audio recording begins mid-sentence with Lane referencing “The war with Iran over the weekend.” The teacher continues: “And the first thing the United States government slash military did was bomb a school, an all-girls primary school—that would be elementary level—killing more than 50 young girls and injuring hundreds more. That’s the United States military, ladies and gentlemen, at the behest of Donald Trump.”
But Lane isn’t done. No, he’s just getting started. His rant to the captive audience of high school students continues:
“By the way, this would be a good time to remind all of you that fifteen United States veterans kill themselves every single day. Why? Let me repeat the last thing I just said. The first thing the United States did when bombing Iran was, during school hours, bomb a school with elementary aged girls there, killing at least 50. ‘Peace President,’ ‘No New Wars President,’ or ‘Pedophile Liar’ is actually more like it, right? Right?”
At this juncture, Lane segues without pause into the ‘Epstein Files’ portion of his tirade:
“Cause let me ask you something,” the teacher continues. “If you’re named 38,000 times in a book, would you be the secondary or a main character of that story? The main character. That’s how many times he’s mentioned in the Epstein files ladies and gentlemen. And as a matter of fact, Epstein himself in an email in 2019 said that if Donald Trump felt cornered, he would bomb Iran. You can look that up yourself. You can look that up yourself. If he felt cornered, he would bomb Iran. ‘It’s unwise to trap a rat in a corner,’ is what he said. Epstein said that about Donald Trump. Huh? Wow! Okay!”
From there, Lane finally drops the issue of Iran and begins discussing Black History Month and the film “Selma.”
Both the content and the context of Lane’s rant are wildly inaccurate and inappropriate. For starters, no one save the most bonkers left-wing conspiracy nuts could possibly think that the American military deliberately targeted a girls’ elementary school. What’s more, it’s far from clear that the strike was caused by the United States at all.
According to The New York Times—hardly a pro-Trump outlet—video “shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a naval base beside the school in the town of Minab on Feb. 28.” They note that only the U.S. uses Tomahawk missiles, strongly confirming that the U.S. did strike the naval base. The article adds, “The base is operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps”—that is, by the most powerful branch of the Iranian military that is accountable only to its Supreme Leader.
The Times notes that other footage “indicates the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on the naval base” and therefore suggests that U.S. may also be responsible for that incident. But the case has not been proven. If a U.S. missile did unfortunately hit the elementary school, it should be obvious that it was a tragic case of collateral damage that occurred while targeting the nearby naval base.
When asked directly about the incident, President Trump replied that he didn’t believe the American military was responsible for the strike on the girls’ school. “No. In my opinion and based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran,” he said. “They’re very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that the Pentagon was investigating, “but the only side that targets civilians is Iran.”
For Lane to suggest that the United States military not only bombed a girls’ elementary school—a case that has not been proven—but that it was done deliberately as the first act of war with Iran “at the behest of President Trump” is blatantly false and slanderous conspiracy theorizing. It is also deeply offensive to U.S. military personnel who have repeatedly put their lives on the line to protect our nation from the devastating possibility of a nuclear Iran.
In continuing his rant, Lane made his personal disdain for America’s soldiers even more apparent when he cited suicide figures for military veterans and suggested that the despicable acts they were forced to commit in the course of their duties led them to self-immolation. In truth, the reasons why veterans are at an increased risk of suicide are highly complex and often related to PTSD and other medical issues.
A recent article on the topic in Mission Roll Call, a veterans’ publication, cites “a growing sense of moral injury and disillusionment among some post-9/11 veterans” as a contributing factor and notes that “Recent data found that 73% of veterans polled felt the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan negatively impacted the way they view America’s legacy in the Global War on Terror.” That catastrophic withdrawal was of course orchestrated by the Biden administration.
While Lane’s entire tirade was egregiously inappropriate in the context of a classroom, his references to President Trump as a “Pedophile Liar” are especially beyond the pale. His further insinuation that the military strikes on Iran are merely a distraction from the Epstein Files—which implicate more prominent Democrats than Republicans—is equally absurd.
Scott Lane is entitled to his personal opinions—even if they consist of half-formed conspiracy theories crowdsourced from Bluesky and Reddit. But that is where his personal freedom ends. He is not entitled to inflict these unpatriotic and baseless rantings on a captive audience of minors under his charge.
The Steubenville City School District initially declined to respond to media inquiries about Lane’s conduct, only later releasing a statement noting that the teacher had tendered his resignation, and refusing any further comment due to it being a “personnel matter.” The student who recorded and shared Lane’s unhinged monologue has a great deal more moral courage than his school and former teacher.
Weak-kneed parents without backbones are a major part of the problem. They have the power to put pressure on teachers who alter education into indoctrination.
That damn Teachers’ Union is another one at fault. You can hardly get rid of these rotten teachers because the union fights the local school boards. However, even most school boards are useless too.
I remember when, as a boy growing up in the late ’50s and the first half of the Sixties, public school teachers were justifiably respected and admired as “low pay but high-prestige” dedicated professionals, and their superb dedication to their chosen lifetime profession of teaching and forming the character of children.
And in the Needham (Mass.) public schools my brother and I attended from first grade through graduation at Needham High School, all of them deserved it.
Then I recall the snarled reply by Albert Chancre, then head of the teachers’ union, several years afterwards, when asked why the union didn’t seem to do much for the educational needs and character formation of the pupils and students:
“I’ll represent the interests of the students when the students start paying union dues!”
Today, the teachers’ unions don’t even “represent” or give a hoot about, the teachers themselves, and public school teaching is now a well-paid but low-respect job.
The unions continue to demand ever higher pay and more time off, but don’t give a damn about their own members’ physical safety or authority to maintain order and discipline in the classroom as teenaged “students” threaten them with weapons in the hallways and tell them to “Eff-off!” when a teacher tells a punk to shut off his G.-d. “smartphone” in class and LISTEN to the lesson the teacher is trying to teach!
In my day, chewing gum or “passing notes,” or whispering to the kid at the desk next to mine was cause for the dreaded Visit to the Principal’s Office, and then a Note Home to Mom and Dad, requesting a conference about my “misbehavior.”
As every boy of my generation feared (and still remembers, to this day), it was “Wait till your father gets home!” …a Death Sentence!
Today, there’d be a guaranteed lawsuit–AGAINST THE TEACHER, THE PRINCIPAL, AND THE SCHOOL!–for administering such wholesome, necessary, incredibly mild discipline and correction.
And yet so many, now, “wonder” or “can’t understand” why so many of our young are now out of control–even murderously– and commit such hideous crimes now, it seems several times every week?
You are SO spot on!!!!
Especially the teachers who want to post this Christian theology in the classroom, And worse yet are the school boards that want to limit any books or writings that cast less than a shining light on America and White people.
In 2016 as substitute Special Ed (co) teacher in a un-named state (wv), I listened to a teacher go after Obama as if he were the anti-Christ. 20 years experience teacher, of history. The students had no choice but to listen to it. This was a history class, and the lesson was about Slavery.
It’s always tough to comment on remarks made by people from a different planet. Where do you start? Where do you go? Nowhere. Best to just ignore alien orders.
Sounds like the rotten teacher that abused me as a six old during the 60s Anti-Vietnam War Era, she was demoted to the rank of teachers aid and transferred to another school at the end of the year.
This guy should be demoted to assist janitor.
So this was a left leaning teacher, which you understood, as a 6 year old?
Or it doesn’t sound like your teacher at all. Your teacher sounds like a pedofile,,,,hmmm.
A complaint here is useless venting. The leukemia of the leftist mind set is already 60 years coursing the body politic of our country.
Yes, 50 years ago in 1976, women could not be admitted to a US military academy.
The Supreme Court said that sexual harassment was illegal. In 1975 is was not.
In 1975, banks were allowed to demand that a man co-sign for a loan until ECOA was passed in 1976 to make that illegal.
Now, do you want to go back 60 years? for more of that lefty stuff.
Get the help you need. This is not the place for it. Good Luck to you
The teacher is a coward and a fool. He was given an ultimatum for his actions, fire or resign so he can keep some of his benefits. Parents pushing back on these woke agendas are working. But more pushback is required to get back to pure professional teaching and not indoctrinating to the woke agenda of race shaming, antisemitisms, sexual grooming to confuse young minds they are not the gender they were born and other sexual grooming.
The lying scumbag is as bad and poisonous to a child’s mind as the pedophile pushing teachers who want to teach your kids about masturbation and anal sex. Time to retire all of these creeps from “education” and remove their credentials.
I also remember the PTA.
There were PTAs all over America, waaaaaay back in the day.
I’m at the point of solely blaming parents for the sorry state of public “education”. They continue to blindly send their kids off to these propaganda centers. Public schools are child abuse.
Thank you Sara Dogan for this informative article.
We had much better school teachers in 1960s in the Soviet Union.
I can never forget my history teacher.
A social studies teacher? Really? Scott Lane, obviously an embittered leftist, is the embodiment of why there shouldn’t be a teachers union anywhere.
That’s not a teacher. H is an islamic terrorist propagandist.
Now is a good time to charge these sell-outs with treason. Aiding and supporting the enemy at the time of war.
There is no way around it. The islamic terrorist supporters should be rounded up.
Education was one of the chosen transmission belts of communism to capture and destroy the minds of the youth.