John Stanton, 65, was suspended by Arlington Public Schools due to comments he made during an eighth-grade Spanish class at Swanson Middle School.
A substitute teacher in Virginia is out of the classroom after saying he supported Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, district officials confirmed Thursday.
Arlington Public Schools spokesman Frank Bellavia, who declined to discuss Stanton’s employment status Tuesday, confirmed to The Post Thursday that Stanton will no longer work as a substitute for the district. According to the school district, John Stanton went on a rant — which was filmed by a student– about how he understood why Russia invaded Ukraine.Stanton said he suggested students read outlets like Sputnik News, where he worked as a reporter in the nation’s capital from 2016 to 2018, the Washington Post reported.
“Who to believe?” Stanton wrote on Feb. 28. “It is getting tougher as alternate news sites like Sputnik News and RT News are being censored by the West. Any support aired by anyone on the West for the Russian position gets mauled and derided by pro-West pundits.”
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