- The top of Oklahoma’s Board of Training celebrated an area faculty principal’s resignation.
- The previous principal resigned after they and the college obtained bomb threats.
- The bomb threats arose after the “LibsOfTikTok” account shared the principal’s time as a drag queen.
The top of Oklahoma’s Board of Training celebrated the departure of an area elementary faculty principal who resigned just lately after their faculty obtained hate-induced bomb threats.
The Western Heights Faculty District board accepted the resignation of Shane Murnan, the previous principal at John Glenn Elementary Faculty, on Monday — slightly over 5 months after starting the place.
Shortly after beginning his new position, the right-wing and anti-LGBT social media account “Libs of TikTok” posted proof of Murnan performing exterior of labor as a drag queen, tagging Western Heights Public Colleges Superintendent Brayden Savage within the course of.
As NBC Information reported, publicizing Murnan’s passion rapidly led to Murnan and the college district receiving bomb threats, resulting in Murnan’s voluntary departure.
“I am a really skilled particular person — I’ve labored actually exhausting,” Murnan informed NBC. “I’ve gone to highschool. I received my bachelor’s, my grasp’s, my doctorate — I’ve been dedicated to schooling, making an attempt to make it a greater factor. However they’ve destroyed me, and I do not know the place I am going or what I am doing now. This has been a nightmare.”
Days after NBC Information printed its report on Murnan’s resignation, Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction who’s been a robust advocate towards something associated to the LGBT neighborhood in schooling, shared the story in obvious celebration on X.
“Drag queens don’t belong in Oklahoma faculties,” Walters tweeted. “Zero tolerance.”
Walters’ celebratory tweet on Wednesday wasn’t the primary time he is weighed in on-line about Murnan’s resignation. Earlier in February, he rejoiced after studying the principal was leaving their publish.
“It is a fantastic day for Oklahoma faculties,” he stated in a video. “Massive win at this time: The drag queen is out at Western Heights. I’ve demanded it from day one. This particular person should not be in a college. You shouldn’t be working with younger youngsters.”
In January, a number of months after the Libs of TikTok account printed proof of Murnan in drag whereas imploring Walters to do one thing, Walters tapped the account’s founder, Chaya Raichik, to the state’s library advisory committee.
Responding to a publish on-line on Wednesday about Murnan’s reported resignation saying they have been “pressured to resign beneath stress”, Raichik stated, “Cry tougher.”
