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14th January 2018, 08:54 AM
https://www.theroot.com/substitute-teacher-fired-after-private-high-school-disc-1821870016/amp
An all-girls Catholic high school in Maryland has taken out the trash fired a substitute teacher and field hockey coach after discovering his white supremacist ties, including the fact that he works for Richard Spencer’s think tank, which was originally reported by our sister site Splinter.
Gregory Conte was fired from his positions at Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, Md. According to a letter that school President and CEO Kathleen Ryan Prebble sent home to parents Thursday, Conte was fired “immediately,” BuzzFeed reports. The letter noted that students had discovered through social media that Conte was “a member of the ‘alt-right’ movement” under an “alternate identity.”
“Prior to his firing, he was successfully using an alternate identity in his work with his atrocious group,” Prebble said in the letter, Fox 5 DC reports. “As for his potential impact on our girls, I conducted an investigation at the time of his firing and determined there was no reason to think that he negatively influenced any of our girls with his philosophy.”
Conte appeared to use the alias Gregory Ritter on Twitter, using his account to send out several problematic tweets, including remarks such as “Hitler did not commit any crime.”
Students also discovered footage of Conte attending the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., back in August.
An all-girls Catholic high school in Maryland has taken out the trash fired a substitute teacher and field hockey coach after discovering his white supremacist ties, including the fact that he works for Richard Spencer’s think tank, which was originally reported by our sister site Splinter.
Gregory Conte was fired from his positions at Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, Md. According to a letter that school President and CEO Kathleen Ryan Prebble sent home to parents Thursday, Conte was fired “immediately,” BuzzFeed reports. The letter noted that students had discovered through social media that Conte was “a member of the ‘alt-right’ movement” under an “alternate identity.”
“Prior to his firing, he was successfully using an alternate identity in his work with his atrocious group,” Prebble said in the letter, Fox 5 DC reports. “As for his potential impact on our girls, I conducted an investigation at the time of his firing and determined there was no reason to think that he negatively influenced any of our girls with his philosophy.”
Conte appeared to use the alias Gregory Ritter on Twitter, using his account to send out several problematic tweets, including remarks such as “Hitler did not commit any crime.”
Students also discovered footage of Conte attending the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., back in August.