She was fired, but only after years of complaints.
In a case of queer overreach so extreme that even the far-left Denver Public Schools board was forced to act, a lesbian-identifying Colorado teacher was fired this spring after repeatedly pressuring students to kiss same-sex classmates during supposedly instructional classroom skits.
Teacher Jennifer Honka was employed for the past eight years to teach French Language and Culture at Northeast Early College (NEC), a high school which is part of the Denver Public Schools district.
Tales of Honka’s inappropriate kissing assignments were a topic of gossip at the school going back several years. They were part of classroom skits engineered by the teacher to allegedly teach students about French language and culture. The skits were given titles such as “The Neighbors Saw Everything” and “The Boring Kiss,” and focused on characters who were dating. “The script for ‘The Boring Kiss’ includes three different moments when the characters are directed to kiss each other,” CBS News reported, making kissing a central feature of the assignment.
It was only after receiving repeated complaints from students over the course of several years that school administrators acted, submitting a report to the Denver Police and commissioning an independent report to ascertain the facts of the situation.
Alarms were first raised during the 2023-2024 academic year when a student in Honka’s French class told her chemistry teacher at NEC about the kissing skits and expressed great discomfort with being forced to participate.
“The student was very uncomfortable and did not know what to do,” the independent report stated. “She went ahead and kissed another student at (Honka)’s direction. The student then shared a digital meme with (the chemistry teacher) that included a picture of (Honka) and the caption ‘she makes girls kiss.’ The meme had circulated among the students. After this incident, the student’s attendance decreased dramatically.”
“One student interviewed directly in the independent review also testified that Honka always selected girls to act in the skits,” CBS News reported. “Despite a nearly 50/50 split among boys and girls in the class, the student ‘could not recall Honka choosing a boy actor.’ This student refused to participate and testified that she received a zero score for a grade on this assignment.”
That student was far from alone in feeling targeted and humiliated by the teacher’s forced lesbian kissing. An English teacher at the school “testified that several students approached her as well,” noted CBS News. “One of the students ‘appeared upset and defeated,’ as stated in the independent review. ‘The student told (the English teacher) that she had been asked to kiss three other girls in one of (Honka)’s skits.’” --->READ MORE HERE
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A Colorado teacher has been fired after an investigation found students were allegedly asked to kiss classmates during classroom skits, with some reporting they felt pressured to participate because the performances counted toward their grades.
CBS News reported Monday that the Denver Public Schools board voted 7-0 on May 20 to terminate French language and culture teacher Jennifer Honka at Northeast Early College for “incompetence and neglect of duty,” finding she had at times allegedly suggested that students kiss during in-class skits.
The outlet reported that an April 30 independent review, a copy of which was obtained by CBS Colorado, found that the students who were allegedly encouraged to kiss were always the same sex.
“One student told an NEC chemistry teacher about the skits in April 2024,” CBS News reported. “The student was very uncomfortable and did not know what to do,” the report said. “She went ahead and kissed another student at (Honka)’s direction. The student then shared a digital meme with (the chemistry teacher) that included a picture of (Honka) and the caption ‘she makes girls kiss.’ The meme had circulated among the students.”
Per the report, following this incident, “the student’s attendance decreased dramatically.”
Additionally, CBS News reported that “One student interviewed directly in the independent review also testified that Honka always selected girls to act in the skits. Despite a nearly 50/50 split among boys and girls in the class, the student ‘could not recall Honka choosing a boy actor.’ This student refused to participate and testified that she received a zero score for a grade on this assignment.”
Another student reportedly walked out of the class, and an English teacher at the school “testified that several students approached her as well. One of the students ‘appeared upset and defeated,’ as stated in the independent review. ‘The student told (the English teacher) that she had been asked to kiss three other girls in one of (Honka)’s skits.’”
According to the report, the skits where Honka asked students to kiss were titled “The Neighbors Saw Everything” and “The Boring Kiss,” which were about characters who were dating. --->READ MORE HERE
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