Teacher forced out after January 6 photo wins seat on school board in Massachusetts

A Braintree, Mass. trainer has gained a seat on the town’s school board, months after resigning from his excessive school educating place over images that surfaced of him on the Capitol on January 6.

Matthew Lynch gained one in all three open seats for Braintree’s school committee, alongside Lisa Fiske-Heger and Kathleen Tuffy.

Lynch was beforehand a trainer at Braintree High School, the place he taught for almost 10 years earlier than resigning. Lynch advised Patch that the FBI had questioned him twice in regards to January 6, the place a photo of him on the Capitol constructing surfaced.

That image was shared on social media, and members of a number of group Facebook teams, together with A Better Braintree and the South Braintree/Highlands Civic Community, took screenshots and shared the photo round.

That photo was shared alongside the FBI tip line used for investigating leads into January 6 offenders. Lynch claimed that the FBI go to stemmed from ideas known as into that hotline.

Lynch accused those that shared the image and FBI data of “slandering [him] as a domestic terrorist.” He known as the group a “digital lynch mob” who “decided they would take ‘justice’ into their own hands,” in line with Patch.

Lynch resigned from his place in February, writing in his resignation letter that he may not work as a trainer as a consequence of his private beliefs.

“Unfortunately as the times change and situations evolve, I can no longer be true to myself while service the role as a Braintree Public School Teacher,” Lynch wrote in his resignation letter, obtained by Patch.

“My military experience as an Intelligence Analyst has given me unique perspective on what is currently going on in both our country and our town and I fear we are heading on a real collision course,” Lynch continued in the letter.

“I feel I need to make my voice heard in the town of Braintree but in doing so will have unintended side effects which will be completely unfair to my students,” he stated.

Lynch stated forward of the election that “kid’s mental health” was essentially the most urgent problem dealing with the school board, and giving as a lot of the choice making course of again to the dad and mom as potential, in line with a candidate profile by Patch.

“The state locked our kids out of school, put them in a losing posture with remote learning and caused trauma at levels we don’t even know about yet,” stated Lynch.

“What did our school board do? Ignored parents, got rid of the mascot, changed the color of graduation gowns and renamed ‘house master’ to ‘vice principal.’ What’s the old saying ‘Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.’ Well not hard to see where we are at.”

“There is a revolution in education going on right now. More and more kids will be leaving public schools for private, Catholic or homeschooling, which will have a negative effect on Braintree’s schools,” he continued.

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