A Columbia High School teacher’s resignation sparked a flurry of public comments at a school board meeting Thursday night. The story the speakers told — that the teacher faced backlash after allegedly posting on social media about Charlie Kirk — parallels those cropping up across the nation.

The majority of people who spoke during the public comment portion of Thursday’s school board meeting spoke in support of of Columbia High School English teacher Mary Adams. They said she was harassed online and unjustly suspended for sharing a post of a partial quote from Trump-ally Charlie Kirk , who was killed earlier this month, on her personal Facebook account.

The school board accepted Adams’ resignation during their meeting.

“We lost Ms. Adams because of what I can only call a group

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