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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, “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 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.”
“WAKE UP!” The maid’s scream ripped through the mansion. Because the baby never stirred.
“WAKE UP!”
The maid’s scream ripped through the mansion.
Because the baby never stirred.
Not even after the stepmother’s so-called “sleep medicine.”
Rosa pulled the infant tightly against her chest, as if her own body heat could call him back.
He was too still.
Too heavy.
The unnatural weight of his tiny body made her stomach twist with dread.
Her thumb trembled as it brushed across his soft cheek.
She whispered the same desperate words again...
and again...
and again...
“Please...
baby...
wake up.
Please.”
Nothing.
Not a flutter.
Not a sound.
On the polished marble beside the kitchen island, the bottle lay on its side.
Empty.
A thin film of liquid still clung to the plastic like evidence no one wanted to touch.
Rosa couldn't stop seeing it.
The image replayed in her mind with terrifying clarity.
Perfect crimson nails.
A small bottle raised with effortless cruelty.
Valeria Montiel pouring its contents into the baby's formula as casually as seasoning soup.
“Now he'll finally shut up,” Valeria had said...
without even bothering to look at the child.
Rosa hadn't screamed.
She hadn't grabbed the bottle.
She hadn't stopped her.
She froze.
Paralyzed between two impossible fears—
losing the only job feeding her children...
or confronting the woman poisoning the baby before her eyes.
Now she knelt on the freezing marble floor of a mansion she could never dream of owning...
holding an infant who refused to wake...
finally understanding the truth.
Silence always has a price.
And hers had just come due.
Six months earlier...
Rosa had arrived at the Montiel estate carrying one worn suitcase and hands that wouldn't stop shaking.
She had come straight from the bus station in Tijuana.
Someone had helped her secure a recommendation.
Someone had promised this job would change everything.
Around her neck hung a promise heavier than any necklace:
Send money home.
Every week.
Without fail.
No excuses.
Back in Guadalajara...
her children were waiting.
Eight-year-old Mateo desperately needed new glasses.
Five-year-old Lupita still wet the bed every night since Rosa had left.
It was as if her little heart still couldn't understand why her mother had disappeared.
At the employment agency, one woman leaned close enough to whisper.
“The Montiels pay very well.
But the wife is...
delicate.
Don't ask questions.
Don't meet her eyes.
Become invisible.”
Rosa already knew how to disappear.
She had mastered invisibility long ago.
She learned it in houses where servants were noticed only when something went wrong.
She learned it scrubbing strangers' bathrooms...
sleeping on borrowed sofas...
sending every extra dollar home while swallowing her loneliness.
Poverty had taught her one brutal lesson.
People without money don't get the luxury of speaking loudly.
The first person to answer the mansion door wasn't Valeria.
It was Tomás Montiel.
Tall.
Exhausted.
Still wearing an airport suit creased from endless travel.
He looked like a man whose body had arrived home...
but whose mind never had.
“Can you care for a baby?”
he asked without wasting a word.
“Yes, sir.
I have experience.”
He nodded once.
“My son is four months old.
He was born prematurely.
He needs constant attention.
My wife...
has commitments.”
My wife.
The words sounded wrong the instant they left his mouth.
The entire house breathed like it was haunted.
Every servant walked carefully.
Every hallway carried a silence that seemed to protect a secret no one dared mention.
Tomás led Rosa upstairs into the nursery.
Little Santi slept beneath a blanket worth more than Rosa earned in months.
His tiny eyelashes quivered.
His breathing was gentle.
Peaceful.
The sight tightened something deep inside her chest.
Mateo had looked like that.
Lupita too.
Small.
Fragile.
Completely trusting.
Tomás handed her a neatly typed schedule.
Feeding times.
Room temperature.
Doctor appointments.
Emergency instructions.
He spoke the way successful men solve problems—
organized...
precise...
controlled.
“If anything happens,” he said, already checking his phone,
“call me immediately.”
He paid her in cash.
No paperwork.
No contract.
No questions.
Rosa understood exactly what that meant.
Inside this house, the rules were painfully simple.
Do your job.
Stay silent.
Never become the problem.
At first...
Valeria never displayed her hatred openly.
That would've been easier.
She never slapped the baby.
Never shouted at him.
She chose something colder.
She treated him as if he simply didn't exist.
She "forgot" whether he had eaten.
She disappeared for hours...
returning wrapped in expensive perfume and unexplained nights.
Whenever Santi cried...
she simply closed the nursery door.
“That's why you're here,” she'd say while fixing her lipstick in the mirror.
Rosa swallowed her anger every single time.
She lifted Santi into her arms.
Rocked him gently.
Sang the same Spanish lullabies she sang during video calls with Mateo and Lupita—
always smiling...
so her own children would never see how badly she was breaking inside.
Then came the afternoon that shattered everything.
Santi wouldn't stop crying.
Not ordinary crying.
Terrified crying.
The kind of cry that unsettles an entire house.
Rosa checked everything.
His diaper.
His bottle.
His temperature.
She paced.
Rocked him.
Whispered comfort against his tiny forehead.
Nothing helped.
Then Valeria entered the kitchen.
Her high heels struck the marble with cold, measured clicks.
She opened a drawer.
Removed a small bottle.
“I've had enough,” Valeria said flatly.
Rosa's throat tightened.
“Ma'am...
what is that?”
Valeria ignored the question.
She uncapped the bottle.
Slowly poured its contents into Santi's formula.
Rosa stepped forward before she could stop herself.
“You can't—
that's not for babies—”
Only then did Valeria raise her eyes.
Her face remained perfectly calm.
Her voice never rose.
It didn't have to.
“It's only to make him sleep,” she said with complete indifference.
“I've grown tired of his crying.”
Ice spread through Rosa's veins.
Valeria leaned closer.
A thin smile touched her lips.
“And you...
you're nobody.”
“One phone call...
and you'll lose everything.”
“You'll be deported.”
“Do you understand?”
Rosa forgot how to breathe.
In that single terrifying second...
she saw Mateo struggling to read the blackboard without glasses.
She saw Lupita asking every night when Mommy was coming home.
Valeria knew exactly where to strike.
Fear became the leash around Rosa's neck.
Minutes later...
Santi stopped crying.
Then...
he became completely silent.
Not the peaceful silence of sleep.
The horrifying silence that no child should ever know.
Now Rosa's entire body trembled as she held him.
Her eyes locked onto the empty bottle lying across the marble floor.
It looked almost alive.
Like it was grinning back at her.
“Wake up...”
she whispered once more.
Her voice cracked.
Then she screamed.
“WAKE UP!”
Nothing.
The terrifying silence remained.
And Rosa finally understood the nightmare unfolding in her arms.
If she did nothing...
this baby could die right here.
And history would remember only one thing.
Not the woman who poisoned him.
But the woman who stood there...
and stayed silent.
Her eyes darted toward the hallway.
Toward the staircase.
Toward the front door.
Toward escape.
Then they caught Valeria's reflection in the kitchen window.
Watching.
Calm.
Patient.
Certain Rosa would obey.
Rosa's mouth went dry.
Her heartbeat thundered in her ears.
Because the next few seconds would decide everything.
Her job...
or the baby's life.
Her fear...
or her courage.
Whatever choice she made...
nothing inside the Montiel mansion would ever be the same again.
...To be continued in the comments. 👇
If you'd like, I can also rewrite it in a more cinematic, thriller-style voice suitable for viral Facebook or YouTube storytelling while keeping the plot completely unchanged.
