Florida teacher Dayanna Volitich, 25, who has been ‘removed from the classroom’ after she was unmasked as the voice of a white nationalist podcast has now released a statement through her attorney that does not deny it is her voice on the show
The Florida public school teacher who has been ‘removed from the classroom’ after she was unmasked as the voice of a white nationalist podcast does not deny it is her voice on the show.
Dayanna Volitich, 25, now says through her attorney that the show was employing ‘political satire and exaggeration,’ including when she was heard boasting about spreading racist views in the classroom under the pseudonym ‘Tiana Dalichov.’
The Crystal River Middle School teacher was identified as the voice of the host of a white nationalist podcast called ‘Unapologetic’ on Saturday by HuffPost.
A statement from her lawyer reads, according to NBC News, that the white nationalist views expressed don’t ‘have any truth to them’ and that Volitich did not interject her personal political beliefs into her teaching.
The statement went on to say:
‘[The show] employed political satire and exaggeration, mainly to the end of attracting listeners and followers, and generating conversation about the content discussed between myself and my guests.’
‘The views “Tiana Dalichov” espouses do not pervade my professional career,’ the statement continued.
‘As an adult, my decisions are my own, and my family has nothing whatsoever to do with my social media accounts or my podcast. From them, I humbly ask for forgiveness, as it was never my intention to cause them grief while engaging in a hobby on my personal time.’
Under the assumed named, Volitich also ran a coinciding Twitter account.
In her most recent episode, ‘Tiana’ discusses her white nationalist views and how she was careful about spreading them among the children she was teaching.
On social media, ‘Tiana’ tweeted that institutional racism and white privilege were ‘bull****’ concepts.
The School District said in its statement that it was ‘made aware of a concerning podcast by a Huffington Post reporter’ on Friday, March 2.
Though Tiana deleted all of her social media accounts, her podcast is still live on iTunes
‘The Human Resources department was notified and an investigation was initiated immediately,’ the statement continued.
‘The teacher has been removed from the classroom and the investigation is ongoing. Pursuant to Florida Statute an open investigation and materials related to it are exempt from public record and cannot be discussed until the investigation is complete.’
The ‘Tiana’ Twitter account has supported tweets about white supremacists including KKK figurehead David Duke, and is gushing in her praise of authors who others have been deemed anti-Semitic.
Volitich was linked to the podcast this week by The Huffington Post which published her tweets and social media photographs on Saturday before she deleted her Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Pictures which came from those accounts match her profile on the Crystal River Middle School Website.
The last ‘Unapologetic’ podcast featured guest subject Lana Lokteff, the host of Red Ice TV, a white nationalist internet YouTube channel based in Sweden.
In the podcast, ‘Tiana’ says she is ‘getting more underhanded’ in how she espouses her views to the children she teaches.
Regarding white supremacists becoming teachers in public schools, a guest said on the ‘Unapologetic’ show:
‘They don’t have to be vocal about their views, but get in there. Be more covert and just start taking over those places.’
To that, ‘Tiana’ replied: ‘Right, I’m absolutely one of them.’
A parent of one of Volitich’s social studies students told NBC News that her daughter had told her of at least one bothersome incident in the classroom.
‘They were talking about segregation in a civil rights type of capacity, and the teacher somewhat alluded that segregation might possibly be OK in her opinion,’ Meredith Bleakley said.
After learning of that incident, Bleakley said she had a discussion with her daughter letting her know it’s OK to speak up if she feels a teacher is saying something inappropriate.
‘This is not what this community stands for,’ the child’s mother added. ‘This is a small town, so it’s very upsetting to find out that this is going on in our school system.’
On Twitter, ‘Tiana ‘ spreads her views including her belief that institutional racism is ‘not real’
Another tweet says, ‘It isn’t supremacist or hateful to prefer your own people over others’
She also references to the ‘JQ,’ an abbreviation for the anti-Semitic term, ‘Jewish Question’
She has also argued with others who tried to separate Islam from terror
The ‘Tiana’ account asked Twitter user to ‘prove to me that white privilege exists’
‘Tiana’ goaded Twitter about suspending her account for violating its terms of service
‘Tiana’ has praised author Kevin McDonald who has been widely criticized as anti-Semitic
The woman has also shared support for the KKK figurehead David Duke
Volitch is shown above in a photograph from one of the ‘Tiana’ social media accounts; She has not spoken out on these allegations
On social media, ‘Tiana’ had also referred to the ‘JQ’, a casual abbreviation for ‘the Jewish Question’ which refers to treatment of Jews in the 19th and 20th Century.
It’s an anti-Semitic concept, used to refer to the ‘issue’ of Jewish people in society.
‘Tiana’ admitted during the podcast that one parent emailed the principal of the school where she worked, which was not named, to express concern about her political views.
‘She emailed the principal over my head and basically told her: “I’m worried that your teacher is injecting her political bias into her teaching,”‘ the voice said.
‘She came to me and said, “I’m not worried, should I be worried?”. I was like “no” and she believed me and she backed off.
‘I get it. If it were the other way around with leftists, I would be paranoid.’
Lokteff suggested they should start a private network of right-wing schools where they could teach children about Slavic traditions and Pagan and Christian beliefs.
‘That’s a good idea! Hit me up!’ ‘Tiana’ replied.
They then discussed whether two children from Sweden and Nigeria would achieve the same IQ or grades.
Lokteff led that strand of conversation, saying:
‘Grades are also tanking with our super diverse all inclusive society where the kid from Nigeria and the kid who came from Sweden are supposed to learn exactly the same and have exactly the same IQ because equality!
Florida’s Crystal River Middle School where Volitich teaches said it was reviewing the material
‘There’s no differences at all between the ethnicity or the races, right? They’re all expected to get the same grades and do the same but that’s not the reality.’
The teacher replied: ‘Oh it’s not!’
On Saturday, after the woman’s alias was unveiled and she deleted her accounts, Lokteff defended her online.
She said the teacher had been ‘slandered’ and that she was targeted by a ‘leftist rag’ which has ‘never wanted diversity of thought/opinion.’
Crystal River School said it was investigating the tweets and the podcast on Saturday. They said the opinions expressed on the podcast and social media were not theirs.
Volitich did not reply to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.