Judge Slammed Teacher—Now She’s With Little Kids

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A Colorado teacher fired for graded skits that pressured girls to kiss each other is now back in a classroom teaching little kids.

Story Highlights

A Denver French teacher was unanimously fired after an investigation found she pressured students, usually same-sex, to kiss during graded skits.^[3]
An administrative law judge said her “sexualized” skits and personal disclosures were “irresponsible and inappropriate” and harmed students.^[3]
Despite that record, she has quietly landed a new job at a Colorado elementary school teaching English language arts.^[4]^[3]
The case shows how activist school culture and weak vetting can put adult agendas ahead of children’s innocence and parents’ trust.^[4]

How a Denver Teacher Ended Up Fired Over Same-Sex Kissing Skits

Denver Public Schools board members voted 7–0 on May 20 to fire French teacher Jennifer Honka after a formal investigation and outside review.^[3] Honka taught French language and culture at Northeast Early College for eight years before complaints surfaced about her graded skits. Students reported that she had them perform scenes with titles like “The Neighbors Saw Everything” and “The Boring Kiss,” where characters were directed to kiss on stage in front of classmates.^[3] According to the independent review, the students chosen for these kissing roles were always the same sex.^[3]

The judge who heard the case wrote that, even if Honka did not physically force students to kiss, her script choices put them on the spot about a “very personal and sexualized activity” while under her authority.^[3] Part of their grade depended on these skits, so many students felt they could not say no without it hurting their class performance.^[1] One student told another teacher she was uncomfortable but still went ahead and did the kissing skit, then later shared a meme saying “she makes girls kiss,” which spread around the school.^[1] Another student refused and said she received a zero.^[1]

What Investigators Found Inside the Classroom

The investigation went beyond the skits and painted a broader picture of poor judgment. Reports say Honka enforced a classroom rule that “the answer is always ‘yes’” and used it when pushing students to take part in the skits they did not want to do.^[3]^[1] The independent review also found that she often shared “sensitive and potentially traumatizing information” about her own life, including her sexuality, use of a sperm donor, childhood abuse, and suicidal thoughts.^[3]^[1] At least one student who was already struggling with suicide reportedly left her class after these talks.^[1]

The administrative law judge concluded that her choice of skits, how she ran them, and her repeated disclosures added up to “incompetence and neglect of duty,” with “little or no educational value” and real negative effects on students.^[3] Denver Public Schools staff first recommended firing her. Under Colorado law, she appealed, which triggered the outside review. After hearing both sides, the judge backed dismissal, and the elected school board then voted unanimously to terminate her employment for “incompetence and neglect of duty.”^[3] District leaders praised the students and staff who spoke up and stressed that student safety and dignity must come first.^[1]^[3]

From Unanimous Firing to a New Job Teaching Little Kids

Despite that strong record, Honka did not stay out of classrooms for long. New reporting notes that, even after the Denver board’s unanimous vote, she is now listed as a teacher in the English language arts department at a Colorado elementary school.^[4]^[3] Coverage points out that she moved from teaching teens in high school to working with much younger children, even though an administrative judge formally found her prior conduct “irresponsible and inappropriate.”^[3]^[4] Parents were not widely alerted; the change came to light when people noticed her name on the new school’s staff page.^[4]

Jennifer Honka, a French teacher at Northeast Early College (Denver Public Schools), was fired May 20, 2026 after a unanimous board vote.

An independent administrative law judge found she assigned graded skits requiring students (mostly girls) to kiss each other and shared…

— Grok (@grok) June 22, 2026

This hiring raises hard questions about how districts share information and how seriously some systems take red flags. One district spent months investigating, followed state law, brought in an outside judge, and then removed a teacher it said did not protect students’ best interests.^[3]^[1] Yet another school, in the same state, appears willing to ignore that assessment and put her in front of younger, more impressionable kids almost immediately.^[4] For many parents, that looks less like “student safety first” and more like bureaucracy quietly recycling a troubled educator.

What This Says About School Culture and Parental Vigilance

Honka has denied that she forced students to kiss and says she allowed options like fake kisses, blown kisses, or fist bumps.^[1]^[3] But the judge and district both focused on the power imbalance and the sexual tone, not just physical force.^[3] This case fits a wider trend where some educators push “creative” or identity-focused lessons that cross common-sense lines, especially on sex and gender, then defend them as harmless or “inclusive.” National teacher guidance on “sensitive topics” warns that lessons must be age-appropriate and aligned with standards, and that teachers should not push personal views in class.^[18] Yet here, both the skits and the personal disclosures appear to have blurred those boundaries badly.

For conservative parents, the lesson is clear: do not assume the system will protect your kids’ innocence. One district did its job and removed a teacher it judged unfit, only for another school to bring her right back into a classroom.^[3]^[4] Parents who care about family values and basic decency will need to stay alert, read what their kids are assigned, and check who is teaching them. School boards respond when informed families speak up, demand transparency, and insist that classrooms are for real learning, not for adult agendas or sexualized role-play.