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Teens Revolt Over Erika Kirk’s Visit To Their High School
Erika is turning her attention to high school students after hardly anyone at a state university bothered to show up to her event.
Students at a Phoenix high school are revolting against a planned visit from right-wing personality Erika Kirk.
After a sparsely attended Turning Point USA campus event, Erika is now turning her attention to high schoolers, with a planned event at Pinnacle High School in north Phoenix next week.But she is already not being met with open arms by students and parents.
“I don’t know why she’s coming here, to be honest,” Francisco Sanchez, a senior at Pinnacle High School, told 12 News Phoenix. “I think the topics that she talks about are too extremist for a school. I think there are better representatives we can have.”
Erika pictured at Charlie's funeral, which was held in Arizona at the Arizona Cardinals stadium.Daniel Cole/REUTERS
“It’s a little crazy because I would never have expected someone like her to show up at a high school,” high school senior Kasandra Acosta told the outlet.
“I’m pretty shocked. Honestly, I’m surprised it’s even happening,” she added.
Parents of students enrolled at the school told The Arizona Republic they were concerned about security--especially after earlier this week, Erika, who became CEO of her late husband Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA organization after his September killing, skipped an event at the University of Georgia over safety concerns.
“It’s not just your average citizen coming over to speak to the club. She brings politics with her, she brings division with her, just because everybody in America is divided,” Bobbe Noland, a parent of a Pinnacle student, told the Republic.
Vance, the second in line to the presidency, still attended the event earlier this week, despite security concerns with Erika.Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS
School officials told parents this week that students would see an increased security presence on campus during the event, prompting some parents to also demand that the school move her visit to after-school hours.
Phoenix Police told 12 News that since Erika’s visit was a private event, the responsibility for securing it rests with the event organizers and must be coordinated with the school district.
“We regularly work with community partners to support public safety during gatherings. As with any event, our officers will continue to monitor activity, review available information, and adjust deployment strategies as needed to help ensure a safe environment for students, staff, and the surrounding community,” a police spokesperson said in a statement.
Her speaking appearance has been organized with the school’s Club America chapter, a TPUSA-affiliated organization. The right-wing nonprofit is headquartered in Phoenix, and she and Charlie lived in the nearby affluent suburb of Scottsdale for many years.
The Daily Beast reached out to TPUSA for comment on the controversy.
Students at Pinnacle High School are not too enthused by Erika's visit to campus next week.Daniel Cole/REUTERS
It’s not the first time she and her late husband stirred up controversy in Arizona’s public schools.
In 2021, Erika and Charlie raged against the Scottsdale Unified School District’s mask policy during the COVID-19 pandemic at a school board meeting. At the time, the couple did not have any children yet.
During the meeting, Charlie called the mask policy a “self-righteous measure” enacted to “abuse the children.”
“There is zero evidence to show that children are at a significant risk of catching or dying from the Chinese coronavirus,” he claimed, adding, “You have awoke a sleeping giant. I hope you enjoy your masked, short-term future here while it still lasts.”
The Kirks had welcomed their first child in August 2022, a year after they complained to a school board about its COVID policies.Samuel Corum/Getty Images
Erika, who grew up in Scottsdale but attended private Catholic school, went as far as to demand a moment of silence at the board meeting for “the kids who will end up committing suicide this upcoming school year in 2021 and 2022 because of your reckless and ego-centered leadership and lack thereof.”
“As Christians, we are told to pray for our leaders and that is what I will do every day,” she said. “May God have mercy on your souls for everything you guys are doing in this leadership position.”One Scottsdale parent called them out, pointing out that they didn’t even have children who were enrolled in the city’s public schools.
“While the agitators from outside our district would have you think that masks mandates are only in place at liberal public schools, the list of private and parochial schools also enacting mask mandates is far from short,” the parent said. “I applaud SUSD’s governing board.”
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My 3-Year-Old Pointed at My Stepmom's Stomach and Said, 'Daddy's in There' - Then I Read the Tattoo She Had Hidden for 35 Years
At my daughter's third birthday pool party, she pointed at my stepmom's stomach and said, "Daddy's in there" — I laughed until I saw WHAT she was actually pointing at.
For my daughter Ariel's third birthday, my husband, Glen, and I decided to keep things simple and celebrate at home with a family pool party.
Her preschool friends came over, along with pretty much our entire family. The backyard filled up fast—kids splashing in the pool, adults talking around the food table, people moving between the water and the lawn chairs.
Even my stepmom, Clara, showed up.
That surprised me more than I wanted to admit.
Clara had married my father fifteen years earlier, back when I was still a rebellious teenager, and she had NEVER liked me. I couldn't point to one terrible thing I'd done to her. We simply never became close, and after enough awkward years, avoiding each other became easier than pretending otherwise.
Still, this was Ariel's birthday. When Clara arrived, I was genuinely glad she'd made the effort.
And for a while, everything was great.
The kids swam. Everyone ate. Ariel raced around with her friends like she had enough energy for the entire backyard.
Then Clara climbed out of the pool wearing a beautiful ONE-PIECE swimsuit.
At almost the exact same moment, Ariel came running past with a group of kids headed for ice cream.
She stopped.
She stared at Clara.
Then she pointed straight at CLARA'S STOMACH and shouted loudly enough for nearly everyone nearby to hear:
"Mommy, Daddy's in there!"
People burst out laughing.
I did too.
For about two seconds, I figured this was just one of those completely bizarre things a three-year-old says—the kind of sentence that turns into a family joke for the next ten years.
Then the embarrassment hit me.
I hurried over, gently lowered Ariel's pointing hand, and told her it wasn't polite to point at someone's stomach.
"Come on, sweetheart," I said, trying to guide her back toward the other kids.
But Ariel planted her feet.
Her little face tightened.
"But DADDY'S IN THERE! You have to save him!"
A few people laughed again, but this time the laughter sounded confused.
Glen was standing nearby, watching the whole thing with a helpless shrug.
I pointed directly at him.
"Sweetheart, Daddy is standing right here. See?"
Ariel looked at Glen.
Then she looked back at Clara.
And suddenly, she started CRYING.
Not the dramatic crying she sometimes did when she wanted another scoop of ice cream. This was different. She looked genuinely frightened and frustrated, and that was the moment the whole thing stopped feeling funny.
"Daddy's on her stomach!" she kept insisting.
I crouched beside her and tried to calm her down, but Ariel wouldn't let it go.
Clara rolled her eyes.
She muttered that Ariel was talking nonsense, walked over to her lounge chair, and lay down as though the whole thing wasn't worth another second of her attention.
I stayed beside Ariel, trying to understand what she thought she had seen.
Then she grabbed my hand.
Her small fingers locked around mine, and before I could stop her, Ariel pulled me across the poolside toward Clara's lounge chair.
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