Gladys Gryskiewicz. Image from NorthJersey news
New Jersey, (IINA) - A New Jersey school board member resigned after drawing fire for anti-Muslim Facebook posts, including one saying, "America needs to get rid of people like you," The Nation newspaper reported citing the board president.
Elmwood Park Board of Education member Gladys Gryskiewicz had come under pressure to step down after attention was drawn to the posts on her personal Facebook account. Board President Jeanne Freitag confirmed the resignation, which was reported by New Jersey's Record newspaper on Friday.
"There will be a resolution at Tuesday's meeting," she said in an email. The resolution calls for the board to accept Gryskiewicz's resignation effective immediately, according to the meeting's online agenda.
Gryskiewicz this year had urged Muslims to "stay in your desserts and follow your religion in your own countries," the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said in a statement.
She also wrote, "Go back to your own country; America needs to get rid of people like you," CAIR said.
Gryskiewicz was elected in November and sworn into office in January. The Facebook page has been taken down. Schools Superintendent Anthony Grieco had called the statements "hurtful and offensive" and said they had disrupted the school day.
CAIR said a high school student called attention to the posts at a board meeting last month. Humza Yousuf, 17, said Gryskiewicz's comments offended him.
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