Patricia Schmidt, a special education teacher based in Naples, Florida was placed on leave after a video of her terrorizing children using a walking path near her home went viral.
Schmidt has apparently been doing this consistently—terrorizing folks using the walking path near her home, specifically children, while also working as an Experimental Education Specialist, who helps identifies the needs of special needs students and provides experimental working environments for them.
MAGA can't turn off their racism for a single day.https://www.rawstory.com/florida-karen-terrorizes-nei/\u00a0\u2026— Tea Pain (@Tea Pain) 1629228961
I'm a teacher. Going into year 29. I don't own a Mercedes. Must be nice. Oh, and I would be fired in a heartbeat if I behaved like this. Lose my pension. I guarantee she's not vaccinated. People like her give all educators a bad rep.— Magpie (@Magpie) 1629229388
Sorry, I am taking the wrong things from this. Florida pays their teachers extremely low salaries even after several years and multiple degrees. How can this teacher afford a Mercedes and to live in that neighborhood? She\u2019s a monster regardless, I am just curious.— La Habichuela (@La Habichuela) 1629244205
Is she a FORMER teacher yet?— D Villella \u2744\ufe0f (@D Villella \u2744\ufe0f) 1629232605
The woman who recorded the rant and her children received several choice words from Schmidt, including the woman being called "White trash" and her children being called "half-breeds."
The expletive laiden beginning of the rant is difficult to decipher because of the amount of bleeping out done.
Wonder who she voted for— Cal Meacham (\ud83d\udc89\ud83d\udc89and \ud83d\ude37) (@Cal Meacham (\ud83d\udc89\ud83d\udc89and \ud83d\ude37)) 1629229293
I hope she is a \u201cformer\u201d teacher by tomorrow.— WB (@WB) 1629229426
I sense someone is going to have to do wee career pivot after this one.— Nick 'Nefertiti's Fjord' White (@Nick 'Nefertiti's Fjord' White) 1629230072
This thing must be removed from teaching.— Diana (@Diana) 1629254012
What a nightmare! I feel for the poor kids in her classroom.— Memphis is Blue \ud83d\ude37\ud83d\udc89 (@Memphis is Blue \ud83d\ude37\ud83d\udc89) 1629229637
Neighbors say Schmidt has been doing this for years—acting as the de facto and extremely hostile guardian of the walking path in their neighborhood.
If unfamiliar faces cross the path, Schmidt takes a similar approach to talking to them as she did on this video, earning her the nickname "King's Lake Karen," after the neighborhood's name (King's Lake).
Special Ed teacher? Imagine how many children she damaged in her years of service? She needs to be SUED into oblivion by parent's whose children she damaged for life. Kids lookup to teachers, seeking their approval & praise. Disgusting animal. #PatriciaSchmidt #LilyElementaryFlahttps://twitter.com/candlefocus/status/1428021844154662915\u00a0\u2026— Lynn (@Lynn) 1629302208
Here we go again with these people. #PatriciaSchmidthttps://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1427981703885295621\u00a0\u2026— Takia Brown (@Takia Brown) 1629298804
Kings Lake Karen is a despicable human being! Those in the MAGA cult want to go back to total segregation with a white's only path to her precious community! It's scary to know that she's a teacher & I feel so sorry for the kids in her class. Her kind of hate is evil.https://twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1427715861373128715\u00a0\u2026— Sharlie Mello (@Sharlie Mello) 1629229904
So Kings Lake Karen, the school teacher I tweeted about yesterday, calling people white trash, half breeds, and mulattos has been placed on leave\u2026 that\u2019s a good start now kindly send her to unemployment \n#DemVoice1\n #wtpBlue\n #wtpEARTH \n#OneV1https://www.rawstory.com/patricia-schmidt-viral-video/\u00a0\u2026— Prez \ud83c\udf3b\ud83c\udf39\ud83c\udf0d\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\u2744\ufe0f\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf7a (@Prez \ud83c\udf3b\ud83c\udf39\ud83c\udf0d\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\u2744\ufe0f\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf7a) 1629298890
Why so silent regarding your employee Patricia Schmidt?\n\nAre you not concerned about the likely abuse she doled out to children with mixed racial backgrounds in your school?\n\nAnd how did someone so racist towards non-white children not get noticed?— Justin James (@Justin James) 1629294952
The Collier County School District, who employs Schmidt, placed her on temporary leave while they make a decision but have not yet commented on the situation.
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