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Teens Revolt Over Erika Kirk’s Visit To Their High School
Erika is turning her attention to high school students after hardly anyone at a state university bothered to show up to her event.
Students at a Phoenix high school are revolting against a planned visit from right-wing personality Erika Kirk.
After a sparsely attended Turning Point USA campus event, Erika is now turning her attention to high schoolers, with a planned event at Pinnacle High School in north Phoenix next week.But she is already not being met with open arms by students and parents.
“I don’t know why she’s coming here, to be honest,” Francisco Sanchez, a senior at Pinnacle High School, told 12 News Phoenix. “I think the topics that she talks about are too extremist for a school. I think there are better representatives we can have.”
Erika pictured at Charlie's funeral, which was held in Arizona at the Arizona Cardinals stadium.Daniel Cole/REUTERS
“It’s a little crazy because I would never have expected someone like her to show up at a high school,” high school senior Kasandra Acosta told the outlet.
“I’m pretty shocked. Honestly, I’m surprised it’s even happening,” she added.
Parents of students enrolled at the school told The Arizona Republic they were concerned about security--especially after earlier this week, Erika, who became CEO of her late husband Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA organization after his September killing, skipped an event at the University of Georgia over safety concerns.
“It’s not just your average citizen coming over to speak to the club. She brings politics with her, she brings division with her, just because everybody in America is divided,” Bobbe Noland, a parent of a Pinnacle student, told the Republic.
Vance, the second in line to the presidency, still attended the event earlier this week, despite security concerns with Erika.Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS
School officials told parents this week that students would see an increased security presence on campus during the event, prompting some parents to also demand that the school move her visit to after-school hours.
Phoenix Police told 12 News that since Erika’s visit was a private event, the responsibility for securing it rests with the event organizers and must be coordinated with the school district.
“We regularly work with community partners to support public safety during gatherings. As with any event, our officers will continue to monitor activity, review available information, and adjust deployment strategies as needed to help ensure a safe environment for students, staff, and the surrounding community,” a police spokesperson said in a statement.
Her speaking appearance has been organized with the school’s Club America chapter, a TPUSA-affiliated organization. The right-wing nonprofit is headquartered in Phoenix, and she and Charlie lived in the nearby affluent suburb of Scottsdale for many years.
The Daily Beast reached out to TPUSA for comment on the controversy.
Students at Pinnacle High School are not too enthused by Erika's visit to campus next week.Daniel Cole/REUTERS
It’s not the first time she and her late husband stirred up controversy in Arizona’s public schools.
In 2021, Erika and Charlie raged against the Scottsdale Unified School District’s mask policy during the COVID-19 pandemic at a school board meeting. At the time, the couple did not have any children yet.
During the meeting, Charlie called the mask policy a “self-righteous measure” enacted to “abuse the children.”
“There is zero evidence to show that children are at a significant risk of catching or dying from the Chinese coronavirus,” he claimed, adding, “You have awoke a sleeping giant. I hope you enjoy your masked, short-term future here while it still lasts.”
The Kirks had welcomed their first child in August 2022, a year after they complained to a school board about its COVID policies.Samuel Corum/Getty Images
Erika, who grew up in Scottsdale but attended private Catholic school, went as far as to demand a moment of silence at the board meeting for “the kids who will end up committing suicide this upcoming school year in 2021 and 2022 because of your reckless and ego-centered leadership and lack thereof.”
“As Christians, we are told to pray for our leaders and that is what I will do every day,” she said. “May God have mercy on your souls for everything you guys are doing in this leadership position.”One Scottsdale parent called them out, pointing out that they didn’t even have children who were enrolled in the city’s public schools.
“While the agitators from outside our district would have you think that masks mandates are only in place at liberal public schools, the list of private and parochial schools also enacting mask mandates is far from short,” the parent said. “I applaud SUSD’s governing board.”
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**My Husband Stabbed Me Twice to Protect His First Love, Then the Doctor Revealed What He Had Just Killed**
THE WOMAN HE CHOSE OVER OUR TWINS
“If you ever put your hands on Selina again, I swear to God, I’ll kill you.”
Those were the last words my husband said before he stabbed me.
Twice.
My name is Mabel Vance. I was twenty-eight, and I had been married to Flynn Vance for three years.
Flynn was the powerful CEO of Vance Global.
And Selina Cole was the woman he had never stopped loving.
That afternoon, Selina appeared at our front door in tears.
There was barely a scratch on her arm.
“I didn’t want to come here,” she sobbed. “Mabel pushed me. She tried to hurt me.”
I stared at her.
“I never touched you.”
Flynn was beside me, holding a small kitchen knife.
He looked at me.
“Did you hurt her?”
“No. Flynn, listen to me—”
“I asked you a question!”
Selina lowered her eyes.
“Please, Flynn. Don’t fight with her because of me.”
That was enough.
Flynn stepped toward me.
The first stab tore through my abdomen.
The second sent me crashing to the floor.
I looked up, waiting for the man I loved to realize what he had done.
He didn't.
He dropped beside Selina instead, wrapping his suit jacket around her shoulders.
“It’s over,” he whispered. “She’ll never touch you again.”
Selina looked at me lying in my own blood.
Then she smiled.
I woke up three days later in intensive care.
The doctors told me I had nearly died.
Flynn arrived carrying a massive bouquet of white roses.
“Mabel…”
Before he could approach, Dr. Marcus Reed stepped between us.
“Mr. Vance, there’s something you need to know.”
He placed an ultrasound image on the bedside table.
Two tiny figures appeared on the screen.
Flynn froze.
“Your wife was eight weeks pregnant when she was admitted.”
His face drained of color.
“Pregnant?”
“Twins.”
The roses slipped from his hand.
Dr. Reed's voice hardened.
“Both babies lost their heartbeats during emergency surgery.”
Flynn stared at the ultrasound.
“No…”
“I didn’t know,” he whispered.
But I did.
A month earlier, I had held a positive pregnancy test outside his office.
I had planned to surprise him.
Then I heard his voice through the closed door.
“Selina, you’ll always be the most important woman in my life.”
I put the pregnancy test back in my bag.
I never told him.
And now our babies were dead.
Because of him.
Flynn came toward my bed, tears running down his face.
“Mabel, please. If I had known—”
I looked straight into his eyes.
“I want a divorce.”
He froze.
“No. Please, Mabel.”
“I’m not asking.”
He reached for my hand.
I pulled away.
“You killed our children to protect a woman who came here with a scratch.”
“It was an accident!”
I stared at him.
“You stabbed me twice.”
His lips trembled.
“I made a mistake.”
“No, Flynn.”
My voice was barely above a whisper.
“You made a choice.”
And for the first time, he understood.
He hadn't just destroyed his marriage.
He had destroyed the only family that had ever truly belonged to him.
