Pro-Antifa California Teacher Who Vowed to Turn Students Into ‘Revolutionaries’ Got Paid to Resign

A California teacher who bragged about using his position to radicalize students into far-left “revolutionaries,” has been given three years of pay by his school district to resign, according to a report.

Gabriel Gipe, an AP government teacher at Inderkum High School of Natomas Unified School District, in January agreed to leave his post with $190,000, reported Sacramento Bee, citing district records.

Gipe, whose annual base salary is about $60,000, was able to get a final paycheck of $100,000 after tax, according to Bee.

The teacher drew outrage from the school district community last year after he was featured in a video by undercover news organization Project Veritas.

In the undercover footage, Gipe said he gave students extra credits for them to attend left-wing events, including counter-protests to the “right-wing rallies.” He also allegedly kept track of his students’ political inclinations to make sure they drifted further left as time went on.

“So, they take an ideology quiz and I put [the results] on the [classroom] wall. Every year, they get further and further left,” he told the undercover journalist, who was posing as a left-wing sympathizer. “I’m like, ‘These ideologies are considered extreme, right? Extreme times breed extreme ideologies.’ Right? There is a reason why Generation Z, these kids, are becoming further and further left.”

Gipe said he displayed on his classroom wall an Antifa flag, which he claimed was “meant to make fascists feel uncomfortable.” The video also showed a poster of Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong in the teacher’s classroom.

When asked about his views on the Chinese Communist Party, Gipe said Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which took place after a disastrous economic campaign that triggered mass starvation and famine, provides lessons for how socialism can take root in the United States.

“You need propaganda of the deed—your economics—and cultural propaganda as well. You need to retrain the way people think,” he said. “We have to hit both fronts. We have to convince people that this [socialism] is what we actually need.”

Later, when a Project Veritas reporter confronted Gipe on the street, the teacher was wearing a T-shirt with a hammer and sickle on the front. He didn’t respond to any of the reporter’s questions regarding him persuading students to adopt far-left ideologies.

Following parents’ outrage, Natomas Unified placed Gipe on unpaid leave pending an investigation, acknowledging that Gipe’s “educational approach” is “disturbing and undermines the public’s trust.” An administrative judge later ordered that he be put on paid leave as the district’s investigation continued.

The report of the investigation revealed more details about Gipe’s problematic conduct, including replacing typical AP Government curriculum with lectures about communism and pinning photos of students who expressed conservative ideas on the wall next to a swastika.

“You used your position of authority with a captive audience of impressionable teenagers to promote your own political ideology, including advocating or teaching communism with the intent to indoctrinate or inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism,” the report says, according to Bee.

In response to a request for additional information, Natomas Unified said in a statement that they have put the matter behind them.

“We have put this behind us and have moved forward,” the statement reads. “What’s most important right now is welcoming our students back to the start of a new school year.”