In a story that just keeps getting more unbelievable, except that it’s 2018, the teacher who accused White House adviser Stephen Miller of eating glue in 3rd grade (yes, you read that right) has been suspended.
In a brief update about the glue-eating accusation about Trump’s “controversial” aide, The Daily Beast notes that veteran teacher Nikki Fiske has been forced to take a little break after bad-mouthing her former 3rd grade student:
The teacher who claimed this week that controversial White House aide Stephen Miller ate glue as a kid has been suspended from her job. Miller—now the mastermind behind Donald Trump’s most hardline immigration policies—was an odd kid, according to comments from veteran teacher Nikki Fiske. She recounted this week to The Hollywood Reporter: “He would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off, and then eat it. He was a strange dude.” The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District has placed her on “home assignment” while it decides what to do about the matter. A school-district spokesperson said they were concerned about “her release of student information.” Fiske also said of Miller, then aged 8: “I was always trying to get him to clean up his desk—he always had stuff mashed up in there.”
Here’s an excerpt from Fiske’s op-ed bashing her former student that The Hollywood Reporter decided for some reason to publish:
In 1993, Donald Trump’s senior political adviser attended Santa Monica’s Franklin Elementary, where he was “off by himself all the time.”
I can still picture him sitting in my classroom.
Do you remember that character in Peanuts, the one called Pig Pen, with the dust cloud and crumbs flying all around him? That was Stephen Miller at 8. I was always trying to get him to clean up his desk — he always had stuff mashed up in there. He was a strange dude. I remember he would take a bottle of glue — we didn’t have glue sticks in those days — and he would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off and then eat it.
I remember being concerned about him — not academically. He was OK with that, though I could never read his handwriting. But he had such strange personal habits. He was a loner and isolated and off by himself all the time.
So, which student in her current class will Fiske be writing brutal op-eds about in the future? Keep checking with THR to find out!