{"id":331043,"date":"2026-07-06T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331043\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:54:08","slug":"martin-county-school-board-objects-to-judge-rec-that-teacher-be-reinstated-newsradio-wfla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331043\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin County School Board Objects To Judge Rec That Teacher Be Reinstated | NewsRadio WFLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida school board is challenging a recommendation from a judge to reinstate a suspended teacher.  <\/p>\n<p>Matthew Theobald was removed from his Martin County classroom after posting disparaging comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk soon after his death.  <\/p>\n<p>Administrative Law Judge Jodi-Ann Livingstone recommended Theobald be back to work at Spectrum Academy and receive back pay.  <\/p>\n<p>But the School Board&#8217;s objection filing argues that she incorrectly found the teacher&#8217;s comments were unrelated to his role.  <\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for the school district claim the comments concerned Turning Point USA chapters that exist in county schools.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida school board is challenging a recommendation from a judge to reinstate a suspended teacher. Matthew Theobald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23644,749,23647,23645,171,173,172,23646,862,23643,23642,23641],"class_list":["post-331043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-am-tampa-bay","tag-breaking-news","tag-fox-news-radio","tag-jack-harris","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sean-hannity","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-bay-news","tag-tampa-bay-traffic","tag-tampa-bay-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331043","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=331043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}