ACSB member tells state board her Kirk comments are protected speech

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Alachua County School Board Vice Chair Tina Certain appeared before the State Board of Education for a social media post about the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Certain defended her post as constitutionally protected free speech, though she acknowledged it was "poorly worded."

State education officials criticized Certain's comments as unprofessional and unbecoming of a public official.

Alachua County School Board Vice Chair Tina Certain appeared in front of the State Board of Education on Nov. 13 to answer for comments she made on social media about the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas invited Certain to attend the meeting in Crawfordville after she called Kirk a “31yr old uneducated white boy,” on her