{"id":13817,"date":"2025-10-21T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/13817\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:07:07","slug":"suspended-martin-county-teacher-requests-independent-officer-for-termination-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/13817\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended Martin County teacher requests independent officer for termination hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Martin County teacher, Matthew Theobald, who was suspended without pay for allegedly calling political activist Charlie Kirk a “racist” and “fear-mongering neo-Nazi,” is seeking a fair hearing. <\/p>\n

Theobald’s lawyer sent a letter to the Martin County School District Superintendent, requesting that school board recuse themselves from the upcoming termination hearing and appoint an independent hearing officer instead.<\/p>\n

The letter aims to ensure an impartial process for Theobald.<\/p>\n

The suspension followed comments made by Theobald on Facebook, which were discussed at the last school board meeting. <\/p>\n

Martin County teacher suspended without pay over comments on Charlie Kirk’s assassination<\/a><\/p>\n

At the last school board meeting, many people spoke saying despite differing opinions, Theobald has the right to share his comments. <\/p>\n

School leaders are set to vote on approving the termination hearing tonight.<\/p>\n

Martin County teacher removed from classroom over comments on Charlie Kirk’s death<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Martin County teacher, Matthew Theobald, who was suspended without pay for allegedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[407,11113,12213,1160,12214,171,173,172,4043,12211,12212],"class_list":{"0":"post-13817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-charlie-kirk","9":"tag-free-speech","10":"tag-independent-officer","11":"tag-martin-county","12":"tag-matthew-theobald","13":"tag-port-st-lucie","14":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","15":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","16":"tag-school-board","17":"tag-teacher-suspension","18":"tag-termination-hearing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}