Dawn Fields, a third-grade teacher at Huntington Place Elementary School in Northport, holds strong opinions about the Trump administration and current events, and she's not afraid to let the world know how she feels.
Fields has been posting and sharing inflammatory posts against President Donald Trump and supporters, Vice President J.D. Vance, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Charlie Kirk, and more on social media, often during school hours.
The school district and principal, however, won't condemn the behavior and declined to comment on whether an investigation is underway following the discovery of the posts.
Daniel Bray, Tuscaloosa County School System superintendent, and Andrea Hamner, Huntington Place Elementary principal, reviewed dozens of her recent posts sent by 1819 News, including those posted during school hours. It is unclear if they reviewed additional posts beyond the sampling provided to them.
"We have many teachers in our school system who have strongly held personal convictions, representing a variety of viewpoints. Just because someone shares their opinions on their personal social media accounts, that doesn't mean they are sharing personal ideas and beliefs in our schools," they said in a joint statement.
Their statement is seemingly at odds with Alabama State Superintendent of Education Eric Mackey following vile social media posts related to Charlie Kirk's assassination.
"Educators, like all Americans, have a Constitutional right to the exercise of free speech, but they also have a professional responsibility to be dignified, moral, and exemplary in their public behavior. Teachers and all other educators hold a special place in our society because we entrust them with educating our most precious resource — our children," Mackey told local superintendents in an email, asking them to forward posts to the state for further investigation.
"Hey, 'friends,' I'm gonna go ahead and absolve you of the need to comment on things I share that you disagree with politically. I don't want to debate you or engage with you. Your vote for Trump was a vote for actual evil. Please unfollow, unfriend, or delete me. Have a great day," Fields wrote in one of many posts showing an intolerance to those with opposing views.
"Shame on every single person who still supports this administration. Please get off my feed and get your head out of the sand," she wrote.
During the school day last week, Fields posted about President Donald Trump.
"In the Tuscaloosa County School System, use of a personal cell phone/electronic device is to be kept to an absolute minimum during working hours. According to our policy, faculty and staff may use personal phones on our campuses during break times, and of course, they may be using social media on an approved off day," Bray and Hamner's statement said of the many mid-school day posts.
"Whatever you think Germans should have done in 1933, do it now," Fields posted just weeks ago, referring to the year Adolf Hitler came to power.
Comments on the image from the page "Not being Republican" include numerous comments insinuating that Trump should be killed, and people should leave the country.
"The Whitesplaining of Charlie Kirk's racism is why decent people are running from the church," is just one of the Kirk-related posts Fields reposted days following his assassination.
Her Kirk post was not the only one aimed at people of faith. She also took a jab at those who consider the Bible sacred, using a Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
"You cannot claim the moral high ground when your grief only stretches as far as Charlie Kirk. If you mourn him and are upset at the reactions, it is not your grief that disappoints, it is your silence on everything else. I am not angered by your empathy today, I am disturbed that this is the only place you have shown it," another post read in part.
"As a teacher who chose not to have children of my own, I find everything about Vance disgusting and deplorable," Fields wrote. "If you're in line with Vance, you're out of line with me. Consider yourself dismissed from my feed,"
Fields wrote in response to a post mischaracterizing the comments Vance made at an event speaking to teachers and teachers' union officials with an agenda.
"You know, so many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids, trying to brainwash the minds of our children,” Vance said at a Center for Christian Virtue leadership forum moderated by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt and the group’s president, Aaron Baer, in October 2021.
More recently, Fields has turned her ire toward the Trump administration's immigration enforcement, calling ICE and those who support the law enforcement agency "domestic terrorists."
At 11:15 a.m. during a school day, she reposted a post that claimed people have a right to shoot ICE agents if they enter your home without a warrant: "The 4th amendment says you can use the 2nd amendment to stop that from happening."
One post, seemingly posted during school hours last month, showed an image of ICE next to the Warsaw uprising. Another quoted a Holocaust survivor, one of many posts making a comparison of Trump and ICE to Hitler and Nazis, rhetoric the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has condemned.
"Careless Holocaust analogies may demonize, demean, and intimidate their targets. But there is a cost for all of us because they distract from the real issues challenging our society, because they shut down productive, thoughtful discourse. At a time when our country needs dialogue more than ever, it is especially dangerous to exploit the memory of the Holocaust as a rhetorical cudgel. We owe the survivors more than that. And we owe ourselves more than that," Edna Friedberg, a historian in the Museum's William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education, said in a statement posted on their website.
A video Fields reposted on Oct. 22, 2025, with the caption "Trolling a Moms for Liberty School Board" starts with this line: "After last week's tragic school shooting, I wanted to help our school to protect our children by making a list of books we should ban because if my child is going to barricade himself in a library, I want to make sure the book he is using as body armor isn't a law school textbook on critical race theory," before going on to mock school choice and education savings accounts, like those lawmakers passed with the CHOOSE Act.
1819 News asked the school district whether the viewpoints expressed created a hostile work environment or should concern parents with differing viewpoints. The school did not address the question specifically but said, "If a parent or guardian were to have a concern about what is happening in their student's classroom, they should come to their school administrator about the issue, so we can address it."
Fields has been an active member of the Alabama Education Association (AEA) for years, filming a promotional video encouraging teachers to join or remain in the organization following a prior complaint that led to her being placed on leave.
A representative of the AEA told 1819 News that, though Fields appeared in the promotional video, she was not a spokesman or recruiter and referred back to a previous comment from the group's executive about their expectations for teachers' social media obligations.
"It is important for educators to recognize that while they are private citizens, they also serve in a public role. Community standards and the impact on the learning environment all factor into how an educator's social media activity is evaluated. Our goal is to help educators safeguard their careers by adhering to their school system's social media policy while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism," Amy Marlowe, AEA's executive director, said at the time.
Fields' social media posts were hidden from public view following 1819 News' inquiry to the school and school district.
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