Teacher placed on leave after tweeting to Trump about 'illegal students from Mexico'

‘Drug dealers are on our campus and nothing was done to them when the drug dogs found the evidence,’ teacher wrote in plea to president

A teacher in Texas has been placed on administrative leave after sending tweets to Donald Trump reporting undocumented students in her school district.

Georgia Clark, a teacher based in the Fort Worth area of Texas, sent a series of messages to the president’s Twitter account on 22 May, which complained that Fort Worth Independent School District had been “taken over” by “illegal students from Mexico.” The tweets have since been deleted.

“Carter-Riverside High School has been taken over by them,” she continued in a tweet addressed to “Mr President. “Drug dealers are on our campus and nothing was done to them when the drug dogs found the evidence.”

She added that the president was elected “on the promise that a wall would be built to protect our borders.”

The president did not appear to respond to her concerns.

NBC News reports Ms Clark is still listed as an English teacher at Carter-Riverside High School.

“Our school year ends today. The Board of Education will discuss, and possibly take action on, her case on Tuesday, June 4,” Clint Bond, executive director of external and emergency communications at the Fort Worth Independent School District, said in a statement.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that nearly 63 per cent of the students population in the district are Hispanic. According to the same numbers, 88 per cent of the student at Ms Clark’s high school are Hispanic.

In 2017, just ahead of the Trump administration’s beginning, Fort Worth school trustees voted in favour of a resolution that declares the district would “strive to create the safest possible environments for its students and employees … free of insecurity and fear.”

The resolution references Plyler v. Doe, the 1982 US Supreme Court decision that all children, including those without an immigration status, are entitled to a public education.