A substitute teacher at an elementary school on a North Carolina military base was fired after parents complained the individual wore fetish-style clothing, claimed to be a wolf, and frightened kindergartners with talk of turning into a werewolf at night.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed the firing on X, posting on Feb. 19 that the matter had already been resolved. The school sits on Fort Bragg, a U.S. military installation where families trust the government to keep their children safe during the school day.

What parents reported

The teacher worked at Mildred B. Poole Elementary School at Fort Bragg and had been there since at least 2023. Parents first raised concerns to administrators in early 2025, as Fox News Digital reported. What they described was far beyond eccentric.

Liberty Counsel, a legal organization, compiled the allegations and sent a demand letter to the Department of Defense Education Activity on Feb. 9. The letter detailed what mothers of pre-K and kindergarten students reported:

• The teacher identified as female and nonbinary, asked students to use female pronouns, and wore “tight shirts and tank tops, above-the-knee skirts and combat boots while wearing a BDSM dog collar with dog tags representing sexual fetishes.”
• Students were told to address the individual by names including “Roxxanne,” “Roxxie,” “Captain Roxxie,” or “Koda.”
• The teacher directed children to howl like wolves and talked about turning into a werewolf at night.
• Parents saw the teacher wearing an animal tail “on more than one occasion,” though the individual dressed appropriately for the yearbook photo and school events.
• The teacher’s car displayed “WEREBEAST HUNTRESS” across the windshield, a custom front plate reading “ROX XY 666,” profanity, and transgender flags.

One detail stands out above the rest. A mother reported that her child came home terrified.

“Mommy, I’m scared he’s going to come eat me.”

That was what the child said after hearing the teacher describe being a werewolf, according to the Liberty Counsel letter cited by Fox News.

Liberty Counsel’s demand

The legal group’s letter did not mince words. It alleged the teacher’s behavior constituted sexual harassment and raised safety concerns, including whether the employee had escorted girls to restrooms based on the claimed female identity. Liberty Counsel also said it reviewed social media accounts it attributed to the teacher. The material included the individual engaging in “sexual fetishes” and “violence/torture” through drawings with furry personas.

The letter called the situation one that “defies common sense and decency.”

Liberty Counsel demanded the teacher be immediately suspended and removed from the classroom pending an investigation. The letter was sent directly to DoDEA, the federal agency that runs schools on military installations.

Hegseth confirms the firing

On Feb. 19, responding to a CBN report on the matter, Hegseth posted on X:

“The ‘Wolf’ was fired 2 weeks ago,”

That confirmation came from the cabinet secretary who oversees the military, and by extension, the schools that serve military families. School officials at Mildred B. Poole Elementary did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Several questions remain unanswered. DoDEA has not publicly commented on the allegations. No formal investigation has been publicly confirmed. And the teacher’s name has not been released.

The real scandal: how long it took

The teacher worked at this school since at least 2023. Parents raised alarms in early 2025. That gap should trouble every military family in America.

These are not high schoolers equipped to process an adult’s identity crisis. These are pre-K and kindergarten students, four- and five-year-olds on a military base, children whose parents serve the country and trust the Department of Defense to maintain basic standards.

Liberty Counsel’s letter described behavior that would raise red flags in any workplace, let alone a classroom full of small children. “BDSM-style” attire. Wolf personas. Werewolf stories that sent kids home scared. The fact that it took a legal demand letter and national media attention to resolve the matter tells you everything about the bureaucratic rot inside DoDEA.

Credit Hegseth for acting. But the system that hired this person, kept this person in the classroom, and apparently ignored parental complaints for weeks or months, that system failed.

When the adults in charge of a military base school cannot protect kindergartners from an employee’s fetish-driven theatrics, accountability cannot stop at one firing. Someone approved this. Someone looked the other way. Taxpayers and military families deserve to know who.