Peabody Teacher Will Not Return After Charlie Kirk Death Social Media Posts: Reports

PEABODY, MA — One Peabody teacher is off the job and another remains on leave pending an investigation into potential district social media policy violations following posts about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this month.

Superintendent Josh Vadala told Patch this week one teacher remained on leave amid "reports of inappropriate social media posts that may violate the district policies and procedures."

Vadala said that was all he could share about the pending investigation.

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That investigation is ongoing as CBS Boston reported that a second teacher would not be returning to the school. The station reported that teacher decided to resign and was not fired, and that the school was in the process of finding a full-time replacement for the teacher who left the district.

A Salem Public Schools employee also came under fire for social media posts related to Kirk's death, but school officials there said that "reprehensible" post was a case of "mistaken Identity."

"The male individual who made the post appears to have the same name as one of our female staff but is not affiliated with SPS," officials said earlier this month. "It is mistaken identity."

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton said his family and staff have received "violent and graphic threats" following his own comments on Kirk's shooting death — as the intense political reverberations of the
Utah shooting reached the North Shore in recent weeks.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza).