Nevada teacher says white teachers are the problem, promotes riots in videos 

Another teacher is under fire after a series of TikTok videos appeared online promoting far left views and containing controversial comments on race.

Jennifer Leja, a teacher at Hyde Park Middle School in Clark County, Nevada, posted a series of videos relating to Critical Race Theory, which contends that most of society suffers due to white supremacy.

Leja made comments that include a call to “start a riot,” calling dress codes “sexist,” saying “education is inherently racist,” saying “history is white-washed,” and that “white teachers are problematic,” according to Fox News.

“I say this as someone who is a white teacher. I have to be aware of the problem if there’s any chance of me helping to fix it,” she said in the TikTok video made available by Fox. 

This is not the first time that she has drawn attention to herself by taking controversial political stands.  

In 2020, Leja was mired in controversy while teaching at Washoe County Schools, in Reno Nevada, when she refused to follow board of education policy, which prohibited displaying overt political symbols, including those promoting LGBTQ issues and Black Lives Matter.  

Leja, who claimed in an interview with a BuzzFeed News that she was the first openly bisexual teacher in the county public school system, displayed gay pride flags, even after a board trustee advised her that it was against the law and board policy.   

Leja contacted the trustee seeking an opinion after reading the district’s policy.  

“The courts have held LGBTQ+ issues to be political speech and thus, the rainbow flag [is considered] to be political speech, so it cannot be expressed through clothing and other means, such as displaying a flag in your class,” the trustee told her, according to BuzzFeed.  

In the recently disclosed TikTok videos, “systemic racism” bolstered by the “white majority” in education, is the political issue that she tackles, said Fox.  

“And while, yes, myself and other White educators, we can improve this and do the best that we can to try to fix this in education, the more long-lasting solution would be to hire more minority educators and to encourage students who are BIPOC to try to go into more higher education fields,” Leja said, according to Fox. “And until we do that, all White teachers that are currently in the position are going to be considered problematic.” 

Leja is one of dozens of teachers who have taken heat for sharing radical views on social media in the past couple of years.