FIRED! Texas teacher let go after saying McKinney pool party 'almost' shows need for racial segregation

A Texas elementary school teacher has been fired after posting on Facebook that she wanted to see black Americans segregated and that she was “ANGRY” that the McKinney officer seen on video manhandling a 15-year-old African American girl “had to resign.”

Karen Fitzgibbons, a fourth grade teacher at Frenship Independent School District in Lubbock, wrote that she wanted black people to be "segregated on one side of town so they can hurt each other and leave the innocent people alone. Maybe the 50s and 60s were really on to something."

Her comments resulted in a widespread backlash against her and calls for her to be fired.

According to local station KCBD, the district sent this statement out in response:

On Wednesday afternoon, Frenship Independent School District was made aware of a statement posted on a Facebook page by a Frenship ISD employee earlier this week.

Frenship ISD is deeply disappointed in the thoughtlessness conveyed by this employee's post. We find these statements to be extremely offensive, insensitive, and disrespectful to our Frenship community and citizens everywhere. These comments in no way represent the educational environment we have created for our students.

The employee whose account is responsible for the post will be relieved of her teaching duties at Frenship ISD.

We hold our employees responsible for their public conduct even when they are not on active duty as district employees. Employees are held to the same professional standards in their public use of electronic media as they are for any other public conduct. This recent conduct was unacceptable.

Frenship ISD hopes communities, parents and students understand that these remarks do not reflect the views of our district, teachers and staff.