BARRINGTON, R.I. (WLNE) — Barrington High School teacher Benjamin Fillo will return to work December 1 following a period of paid administrative leave after his controversial TikTok post in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death.

Fillo was notified of Interim Superintendent Robert Mitchell’s decision on November 20, according to a statement from the Barrington School Committee.

Fillo was placed on administrative leave on September 15 following his September 11 post in which he called the recently deceased Kirk “a piece of garbage.”

In the third party investigative report into the post, Fillo was noted to have said that his comments were a “visceral reaction” and a “lapse in judgment.”

In the opening of his report, attorney Matthew T. Oliverio said in part:

My charge is to determine whethe

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