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A California teacher has been placed on "home assignment" after publicly claiming one of President Trump's senior aides ate glue in elementary school.
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District teacher, Nikki Fiske, claimed that as a child, Stephen Miller ate glue in school and that he was "a strange dude." Officials with the school district said they are taking time to decide how to handle the recent comments.
The transcript of the 72-year-old teacher's remarks are below:
"I can still picture him sitting in my classroom. Do you remember that character in Peanuts, the one called Pig Pen, with the dust cloud and crumbs flying all around him? That was Stephen Miller at 8.
I was always trying to get him to clean up his desk — he always had stuff mashed up in there. He was a strange dude.
I remember he would take a bottle of glue — we didn't have glue sticks in those days — and he would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off and then eat it. I remember being concerned about him — not academically. He was OK with that, though I could never read his handwriting.
But he had such strange personal habits. He was a loner and isolated and off by himself all the time. At the end of the year, I wrote all my concerns — and I had a lot of them — in his school record.
When the school principal had a conference with Stephen's parents, the parents were horrified. So the principal took some white-out and blanked out all my comments. I wish I could remember what I wrote, but this was 25 years ago. I've taught a lot of third-graders since then.
Of course, Stephen wasn't political then — it wasn't until later that he started to make waves."
The school district's spokeswoman Gail Pinsker said their main concern and reason for putting the teacher on 'home assignment' was mostly “about her release of student information, including allegations that the release may not have complied with applicable laws and district policies.”
Fiske is a registered Democrat in California and is known to support progressive causes on her Facebook page.
Read more at the Los Angeles Times.