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by WILL FOLKS
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A government-run elementary school in the South Carolina Lowcountry is facing intense backlash from parents after a new teacher’s violent artwork – and “Gendeer (sic) Fluid” sexualized cartoons – failed to raise red flags with district officials during “their” hiring process.
According to Charleston, S.C.-based radio host Corey Allen, the controversy centers around Joseph R. Pye elementary school in Ladson, S.C. – where a self-described “toxic lesbian” who cranks out gory, knife-wielding doodles and “transcartoons” was recently introduced as the school’s art teacher.
Pye elementary is part of Dorchester County school district two, a 26,000-student district based in Summerville, S.C. Pye is currently is home to 835 students spanning pre-kindergarten to fifth grade.
Last Tuesday (July 29, 2025), Cris Jackson of Houston, Texas, was announced as Pye’s “new art teacher extraordinaire.” In a since-deleted social media announcement, the “former dancer” and “current artist” with “multiple degrees” was touted as being “ready to share their love for creativity, comics and design with our students.”
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“Outside of the classroom, Ms. Jackson enjoys cross-stitching, gaming and working on their dream of becoming a published graphic novelist,” the announcement continued.
Jackson celebrated their hiring on the left-leaning social media app Bluesky, noting the new position followed an extended period of joblessness.
“After months of unemployment I’m so thrilled to announce I’m starting as an Elementary Art Teacher this August!!!” they wrote, inviting followers to help them “get my room ready” by purchasing items on a classroom wishlist.
While it’s unclear what sort of art Jackson is planning on teaching students at Pye, their tastes include violent graphic cartoons depicting violence against children – and cartoons which push same-sex relationships, also involving children.
“I knew I liked girls,” one cartoon posted to social media by Jackson noted. “But I never felt like one.”
According to Allen, a conservative radio host, Jackson has been “writing violent and sexually suggestive ‘comics’ that push ‘furries’ and violence in schools and against children.”
Here’s some of their work…
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In addition to multiple depictions of gore, blood and knife-wielding murder, another cartoon posted by Jackson referenced a lesbian protagonist who was “constantly engaging in weird, time-consuming drawn out rituals of self-harm” – and “getting (her partner) roped into them.”
Needless to say, Jackson’s tastes did not mesh with those of parents of students at Pye.
“When parents confronted the administrators of Joe Pye elementary, the admins went to the teacher about it,” Allen added. “After the discussion with the ‘non-binary’ teacher, she suddenly and miraculously decided to hide her social media, making it private.”
Prior to Jackson’s apparent scrubbing operation, though, parents were able to download all manner of content from her social media pages – including some harsh invective directed at elected officials, including U.S. congresswoman and 2026 South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nancy Mace.
“Called Nancy Mace a demon bitch in group therapy today and made my therapist laugh and say ‘I think I want to cross stitch that,'” Jackson wrote in a post earlier this year.
Wait… the teacher glorifying violent stabbings and shared self-harm is in therapy? And their therapist is celebrating hateful rhetoric against elected officials?
Because that seems potentially relevant…
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Yet another post featured on Jackson’s social pages mocked Christianity, depicting a Sonic the Hedgehog figure tied to a cross hung on a wall.
“(R)ip Jesus you would have loved trans day of visibility,” they wrote.
Curiously, most of the parents we spoke with didn’t blame Jackson for the controversy her hiring has caused.
“She’s been put in a position where she shouldn’t have been,” a parent of two children at the school told FITSNews. “She wasn’t vetted properly.”
“How many red flags do we need?” the parent continued, putting the blame for Jackson’s hiring solely on the district. “Who the heck else is working at our school? What’s going on at that school is the real question.”
Other parents were less understanding of Jackson’s artwork.
“She’s sick, disturbed,” one parent told us. “She shouldn’t be within a mile of a school, let alone inside one in a position of authority and influence.”
Other parents who spoke with us claimed the school – after tipping Jackson off to the complaints – was dismissive of their concerns.
“We were told ‘Cris would never do anything to harm the children and she invites parents to meet her and look at the room,'” one parent told us.
Like the internet, Jackson’s room appears to have been scrubbed as well. According to our sources, they had pictures of “butch lesbian” and “femme lesbian” cartoon animals posted on a classroom wall – posters which were later photographed with tape covering the descriptions of the characters’ sexual orientations.
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“It’s not just that they dropped the ball and hired this person,” one parent told us. “It’s that they’re trying to gaslight us into thinking there’s nothing wrong with them dropping the ball and hiring this person. Hopefully they do the right thing and we don’t end up down the road having to say ‘we told you so.'”
Conservatives in the Palmetto State have been fighting for years to clean up South Carolina schools, hoping to get teachers and administrators to focus on reading, writing and arithmetic – not hyper-sexualized literature, gender-bending ideology and furry fantasies.
Calls to Dorchester district two were not immediately returned, but in keeping with our open microphone policy we welcome their perspective on our coverage in the event it is provided.
Count on FITSNews to provide our audience with any pertinent updates related to this story…
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR…
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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I guess Will must have missed this hire.
Haha. Will is never going to write about stuff like that. He is terrified of crossing the Dear Leader. He is only big and brave when he criticizes local politicians no one has ever heard of. Or the judiciary, who he knows cannot respond.
You are always so full of anger. How many guns do you own?
Strange woman. At least she seems to understand Nancy Mace.
Seems like a witch hunt just to get a gay person fired to me. I don’t really see an issue with what was posted in the classroom. And the violent comics were on a personal account, and without context of the story it’s impossible to tell if it’s glorifies the violence or not. The character in the comic certainly seems like a villain, so I’m not sure how it’s promoting violence.
They have highest per capita of mass shootings and suicides.
I’d say we, the taxpayers take her out of the classroom and put her on the frontlines with our military.
Let’s weaponize non-nonbinary and trans violence for the greater good!
“And the violent comics were on a personal account, and without context of the story it’s impossible to tell if it’s glorifies the violence or not.”
Clearly, you are not a parent. This person has no business being around children.
FITS/Will have covered some weird stuff, but this one takes the cake! DD2 messed up here BIG TIME. And Joe Pye must be mortified.
Gosh, what next for our state: Child porn addicts in the SC House; Adulterers in the SC Senate?
There is no teacher shortage big enough to justify this hire.
Administration in that school/district is way out of touch…and when you get this out of touch about educating children and keeping them safe, it’s past retirement time.
Good article, Will. Why, however, would you perpetuate this nonsense where a female refers to herself by the idiotic “they” “them”, or other B.S. She is a female. That cannot be changed, despite what other lunatics may think. Call her what she is: female, woman, lady, chick, insane person . . . NOT a “they” “them”. Come on, man . . .
Wow, y’all must not have a lot going on to consider this news. Perhaps the school’s parents should try getting a hobby instead of stalking a teacher and jumping at their own shadows.
Where do people find the time for this? Are all the parents unemployed? Makes me so grateful that my own parents were normal people with actual lives and interests, back when parents were too busy actually working real jobs to sit on their asses and scroll Instagram all day. No idea how these people expect their children to get an education when they’re constantly getting the teachers suspended and fired because of their own paranoid delusions. Very bizarre behavior. Some of these parents would benefit from a stay in the mental hospital to cure their social media addictions. . .
Hope this “article” didn’t take too long to write. Guessing it didn’t based on the obvious typo in the headline. Amateur mistake for a supposed news outlet. What a waste of time for all involved.
I hope you are not a parent. According to you “parents should try getting a hobby instead of stalking a teacher and jumping at their own shadows”. Are you serious? The number one job of a parent is to protect their children and I am sorry a teacher who is non-binary, trans, gay, they and them cannot teach my child anything. Especially one that draws satanic violent pictures in their spare time.
My understanding is that the comics were a part of their college program in sequential art. Part of the program required the usage of social media. You cannot demonize people for things like this. You are literally judging a teacher on everything but teaching. Everything didn’t magically disappear. Its likely they didn’t think about the possibility of students finding their social media and when it was brought to their attention they locked everything down to prevent that. This coverage will always be out there for these students to find… and that leads into parents making the choice to use internet safety in their homes. Parental locks on devices are not a for sure thing but they do catch most of what is out there. Parents also have to remember that teachers are not the only exposure your child has to things like Sexuality, Gender Identity, and violence. What matters is what we as Parents do in those moments when out children come home with questions or just talk about their day and something you deem “inappropriate” comes up. We choose to have age appropriate discussions withoutlr kids starting with “Well what do you think that means?” Or “Well what do you think about that?” To find out what their understanding already is.
If I were local law enforcement, I would be keeping a REAL close eye on this person. Trans shootings in schools are a thing recently, and she’s got plenty of “motive” now.
How stupid are the admins at this school not to have vetted this person?
What the hell is the world coming to.
Stop with the they/them crap.
You have genders and then you have presentation. they are not the same. Not bowing to the agenda of the LGBTQ+ community who believe everyone else is required to validate them is not hate, phobia or anything but the statement that your insecurity in your own skin is not my issue.