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The Canadian Press
Posted September 14, 2025 8:52 am
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The principal of a college in Toronto’s east finish says a instructor has been quickly suspended after displaying college students a video associated to the capturing of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
In a letter despatched to oldsters on Friday, Jennifer Koptie, the principal of Corvette Junior Public Faculty in Scarborough, says college students in a Grade 5/6 class have been “proven a portion of a violent video” after being requested a few “current tragic occasion in the USA” the day earlier than.
A spokesperson for the Toronto District Faculty Board confirmed the video talked about within the letter was associated to Kirk’s dying.
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Kirk was the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth group Turning Level USA, in addition to a podcaster and ally of U.S. President Donald Trump.
He was fatally shot Wednesday whereas talking at an out of doors occasion at a Utah school campus.
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Movies which have circulated on social media present Kirk being shot within the neck, with blood gushing from the wound.
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A 22-year-old man has been arrested within the case.
In her letter to oldsters, Koptie says the person who has been suspended was not the scholars’ homeroom instructor, however a workers member supervising the category.
“Whereas an investigation should nonetheless be performed to be taught the entire particulars, the report of this incident is extraordinarily troubling and fully unacceptable,” she wrote.
Koptie says the workers member has been relieved of all instructing tasks and won’t return to the varsity till the investigation is full. A social employee was accessible to college students on Friday, she added.
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