Stephen Miller's third grade teacher gets suspended after giving interview mocking him as glue-eating loner

  • Nikki Fiske is on 'home assignment' after Thursday's interview about Miller
  • She is a teacher with the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District   
  • Fiske said Miller ate glue and was isolated from the rest of his third-grade class
  • Miller is a senior policy advisor to Trump and is seen as an immigration hawk
  • He is credited as architect of 'Muslim ban' and family separation policy at border
  • Conservative pundits blasted Fiske for mocking her former student's childhood 

The elementary teacher who gave a tell-all interview mocking senior White House advisor Stephen Miller as a glue-eating loner has been placed on leave.

Nikki Fiske is on 'home assignment' from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District as the public school system in California determines what, if anything, to do about the interview, the Los Angeles Times reported. 

Fiske taught Miller in the third grade at Franklin Elementary in Santa Monica. On Thursday, the Hollywood Reporter published an interview with Fiske bashing Miller as a child.

'I remember he would take a bottle of glue — we didn't have glue sticks in those days — and he would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off and then eat it,' she said. 'He was a strange dude.'

Nikki Fiske is on 'home assignment' from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District
Miller is a top policy advisor to Trump and has been seen as the architect of several controversial administration policies

Nikki Fiske (left) is on 'home assignment' from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District after giving an interview mocking Stephen Miller as an eight-year-old student

Fiske said Miller was a loner who would isolate himself from classmates (circled is Miller in third grade. Fiske is pictured far right)

Fiske said Miller was a loner who would isolate himself from classmates (circled is Miller in third grade. Fiske is pictured far right)

While he kept up with classmates academically, Miller struggled socially, Fiske said. 

Fiske says he was a 'loner', who had a messy desk and was would often isolate himself from classmates. 

'Do you remember that character in Peanuts, the one called Pig Pen, with the dust cloud and crumbs flying all around him? That was Stephen Miller at eight,' she said. 

Fiske, 72, is a registered Democrat. She could not be reached for comment by DailyMail.com

Her Facebook page is filled with liberal sentiments such as support for gun control and comparisons of President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

'Wake up, people who support D. Trump. His administration is an abomination,' she wrote in a post last year.

Miller, 33, is a top policy advisor to Trump and has been seen as the architect of several controversial administration policies, including the entry ban on nationals from certain Muslim-majority countries, and the arrest of parents who illegally cross the southern border with children. 

Miller, 33, is a top policy advisor to Trump and has been seen as the architect of several controversial administration policies

Miller, 33, is a top policy advisor to Trump and has been seen as the architect of several controversial administration policies

Fiske's interview provoked outrage from some conservatives, who saw a teacher dishing dirt on a former student's childhood as beyond the pale.

'The real takeaway from this story is that Fiske sounds like a real piece of trash,' Becket Adams wrote in a column for the Washington Examiner.

'What kind of teacher goes to an entertainment newspaper with gossip about an 8-year-old boy?' he continued. 

'Worst third grade teacher ever?' Fox News host Greg Gutfeld asked on Twitter. 'Will they do this to your kid, later?'  

National Review writer David French tweeted: 'By the way, regardless of your views of Stephen Miller, can we agree that a teacher coming forward with no doubt hazy memories of your eight-year-old self is gross and pathetic?' 

Fiske's comments are, strangely, not the first to be made about Miller's time in third grade.

In June, classmate John Muller wrote a tell-all for Politico about his time in Fiske's classroom with the boy who would go on to help write Trump's inauguration speech.

The policy adviser attended Franklin Elementary School in Santa Monica

The policy adviser attended Franklin Elementary School in Santa Monica

Muller sat next to him, but said the pair were never friends. He, like Fiske, said Miller was difficult to get through to, and even claimed the eight-year-old had divided their table in half to establish a clear boundary.  

'He especially was obsessed with tape and glue,' Muller wrote.

'Along the midpoint of our desk, Stephen laid down a piece of white masking tape, explaining that it marked the boundary of our sides and that I was not to cross it.'

The former Harvard lecturer said he found it intriguing that for a child so determined to keep others out of his space, he took no care to maintain that space, and recollected Miller's desk being 'sticky and peeling' with pencils and bits of paper everywhere. 

Like Fiske, Muller also recalled Miller's fascination with glue.

'When Stephen wasn’t picking at the tape [dividing the desk], he was playing with glue,' he said.  

'He liked to pour it into his hands, forming grime-tinted glaciers in the valleys of his palms. Glue thusly in hand, he deployed his deepest powers of concentration to watch these pools harden.'

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