A Grapevine-Colleyville ISD (GCISD) teacher was placed on administrative leave Monday by district administrators after posting a meme on Facebook that celebrated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk shortly after he was murdered by a radicalized Antifa-aligned activist living with his male “trans” partner.
As The Dallas Express previously reported, GCISD has been the target of an organized group of radical-left activists, including a political action committee run out of a Colleyville law office that has engaged in lawfare against the district since a Republican majority was elected to its Board of Trustees in 2022.
District teacher Lisa Seligmann-Brisendine posted on Facebook shortly after the assassination of Kirk.
Seligmann-Brisendine was investigated by the district just last year after residents complained she had made politically inflammatory statements, attacked GCISD residents/taxpayers on her Facebook posts who questioned her far-left political views, and labeled some who engaged with her posts as “racists.”
Lisa Seligmann-Brisendine, March 2, 2025, Facebook Cover Photo
Lisa Seligmann-Brisendine, March 2, 2025, Facebook Profile Picture
The post was quickly “liked” by at least one other current GCISD teacher, Julie McConathy. Others who reacted positively to the post included current district trustee Matt Foust’s mother, Wanda Cotter, who’s been politically active in the district, and former Colleyville High School Principal James Whitfield.
Whitfield was terminated from the district in 2021 following complaints of promoting critical race theory curriculum, and after sending an email to district families urging them to check their “white privilege” following George Floyd’s death.
Whitfield subsequently sued the district but lost and was required to pay nearly $72,000 in legal fees to GCISD.
Seligmann-Brisendine’s Facebook profile was changed shortly after the district placed her on leave, and her post was deleted.