Heather Doncaster, the Anchorage School District teacher recently exposed by Libs of TikTok for holding a poster with profane language and a veiled threat against Donald Trump, is again under scrutiny after her drag social media account surfaced with repeated anti-Trump posts, including the one on Aug. 15 that many interpreted as a call for violence against the president while he was in Anchorage.
Doncaster, whose drag queen stage name is Hank VanDickerson, is an 8th grade teacher at Clark Middle School and a vulgar drag queen performer outside of the classroom.
This controversy arose again about Doncaster just as the Anchorage School Board prepares to review on Tuesday night its Guardrail 3 report, which asserts that the superintendent “will not allow unsatisfactory employee performance to go unidentified or unaddressed.” Guardrails are intended to reflect community values and set boundaries for district leadership in pursuit of student outcomes.
According to the report presented this month, the Anchorage School District evaluated nearly 2,000 teachers annually over the past three school years. Despite the district’s stated commitment to high standards, an average of 4.19% of teachers received at least one rating below proficient during that time. In 2022–23, 90 teachers received ratings of Basic or Unsatisfactory. The following year, 84 did. In the most recent school year, 82 teachers fell into the category.
That means the number of teachers who fail to meet proficiency has barely moved in three years, raising questions about whether the guardrail is functioning as intended.
The Framework for Teaching — the evaluation system used by the district — requires teachers to demonstrate proficiency across 22 components spanning planning, instruction, classroom environment, and professional responsibilities. Ratings below proficient are not considered acceptable under Anchorage School District standards.
Performance concerns are addressed through a tiered process, beginning with informal supports and moving to formal Plans of Growth or Plans of Improvement. Teachers who fail to make progress can be recommended for non-retention. Yet the percentage of teachers with ratings below proficient has remained virtually unchanged.
The case of Doncaster, now spotlighted nationally, underscores the tension between the district’s written standards and the conduct of some employees.
With 4.19% of teachers underperforming by the district’s own evaluations, the community is left to ask: Is this the kind of “performance” that the Anchorage School District is willing to tolerate?
According to the district, there are instances “where employee misconduct requires a supervisor to follow ASD’s disciplinary process. Procedural safeguards are in place that allow an employee the opportunity to respond when conduct issues arise that may warrant discipline. Disciplinary outcomes may be considered in the overall evaluation of an employee, but in most cases, discipline is handled separately.”
While there are situations in which employees may be non-retained due to ongoing performance concerns or dismissed as a disciplinary action, employees may also choose to resign in lieu of non-retention or termination, the guidelines report.
Just curious:
If my kid was put into that person’s classroom, could I (as a parent) put a stop to it?
You could become a proficient teacher yourself. Qualified teachers are in short supply. Sign up and be a part of the solution.
That’s not a solution to his immediate problem. He could, of course, home-school.
How about the ASD just fire degenerates and the the problem will work itself out. You are an apologist for everything that’s wrong with this horrible school district.
What a disgusting perverted P.O.S..
This freak is teaching children in our community.
What would ASD have done if some perv made veiled threats against Biden or Obama?
I agree! People like this should not be teaching our children. I would think of someone like this is trying to groom, children, or indoctrinate them with the liberal trash agenda.
Yes- You can remove your child from the indoctrination system and put them in a charter or teach them at home.
You would be doing a great service to them to get them out ASAP.
Has this filth been fired?
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If the answer is no, why is any school-board person still talking?
Probably not. Think of it like terminal cancer, nobody can put a stop to it, or they woulda done so already.
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Remember what Mark Twain said, “Don’t wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it,”
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Only choice for your child’s sake, at least for now, seems to be ditching public school, going to home or private schooling.
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Sure and it costs more, not to mention lifestyle changes involved in making it happen, but what else were you planning to do with all your spare money and time?
This teacher may actually be a …… APD needs to fully investigate.
This person needs to be prosecuted ASAP. Where is Pam Bondi? Unfortunately… she is proving to be worthless.
Proving to be worthless? I’d hardly call all the cases she’s working on as “worthless.”
Manda Gershon, you support an AG who covers up for serial pedophiles? You are a sick individual.
“What two adults do in the privacy of their own home is none of your business” <–remember that line? What happened to that?
What? She’s literally broadcasting it on social media. Should people just ignore it?
MAGA is far too interested in other people’s genitals and personal lives. Does Ms Doncaster teach her students what they need to know regarding art? Are her students engaged and interested and excited to explore art media?
Huh?? Art Media?
I am fairly literate and it seems to me that Mrs. Doncaster is according to this ASD page a SCIENCE teacher.
Art is fluffy, squishy and full of kittens and unicorns. Science (even 8th grade science) should be taught based on facts and the scientific method, but I guess when you have an alter-ego you can teach art media during science class. No wonder we are 49th or 50th on that outcome scale.
As for genitalia, I do not care, but it seems I am told at every turn that I am supposed to respect and celebrate somebodies imaginary ones….
Leftists are far too interested in utter sexual depravity and perversion and want deviance to be the norm which includes children. This is the alter you worship.
People are sick of your lot.
Irrelevant, and you know it. How very disingenuous of you.
If you make it public like she did. it is no longer private. let alone she is a teacher. why was she not teaching that day
Yes, Jay I remember that line well, and in general I agree with it. It has however proven that doing “your thing” in private is not enough for these activists.
I always find it interesting that people will work very hard to flaunt the common norms with their behavior or dress. Then they are upset when others do not celebrate their choices and complain of being “marginalized”. In my experience being “marginalized” is a self-inflicted wound in cases like this.
I had a classmate once, who dyed her hair purple (and not just a little), then complaint that everyone staring at her made her uncomfortable. I suggested she either get used to the stares or dye it back. She dumped me as a friend…..
Not relevant to this issue. And what about keeping your sexual preferences out of professional lives? That would meet that ‘in the privacy of their own home’ standard
Not private when it is on the web.
And sometimes teachers are dismissed in retaliation and without cause because the teacher has ncovered a nasty truth about an administrator and nothing ever happens to the perpetrator.
This!
It will be interesting to see how the ASD and NEA address threats against a seated president.
Hmmm? And if they do nothing, isn’t that grounds to recall the entire school board?
Send that thing to jail!!! What ever the HELL is is!
We need more mental institutions, it’s curious what drove this person to this insanity and why the school district would have a mentally unstable person amongst its kids. The parents of these kids better wake up. This is a picture of the person that kills their kids in an act of violence. I actually feel sad for this unhinged individual how horrible life must be to live with this much hate.
I don’t feel sorry for this individual.
They/them is a sick perverted animal.
Pretty lax standards… Well.. If there was a standard at ASD…
There are no standards
It needs to resign.
It needs locked up,
I’m confused. This person was born as a woman, had the girls cut off and dresses after school as a man? Women already wear pants and even Hillary could get nailed if she hung out at a bar for a (not sure how long).
So, is this a man that dresses as a woman during school hours or is it a woman that likes to be nasty in pants? The beard is a spray on?
This person’s post was made at lunch time or thereabouts on Friday so from school grounds and on ASD equipment? It’s clearly a career limiting move to use use ASD’s computer and wifi but it’s confounding again that if it’s not the case then why would an ASD background be on his or her personal system? This is too weird. Why do this variety of homosexual have to be so clearly unhinged?
“…and even Hillary could get nailed if she hung out at a bar for a (not sure how long).”
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Literally, they do not make enough beer.
She’s a Drag King. She dresses as a man for entertainment. Geez, you people are ridiculous 🙄
If she was holding a sign that said F Obama would she still have a job Julie?
“Doncaster, whose drag queen stage name is Hank VanDickerson”.
What is the ridiculous bit? How important is it that everyone have your familiarity with the homosexual community? What’s more ridiculous yet is that Doncaster’s behavior be released into the broader community for public scrutiny by… Doncaster. Amazingly short sighted. Freakishly so. And if she did chop the girls off is there any chance they could yet be like, salvaged and repurposed? One woman’s trash is another person’s treasure. Asking for a friend.
Correction due — should say drag king. – sd
Thanks… still an esoteric reference for me and almost everyone else I’d wager. Logic Key: If it has an apple* it has a banana and if it doesn’t have an apple it might have a banana or it might be a king pretending to have a banana and wishing to have an apple. Got it.
* Adam’s
Why this person has not been fired and has not been charged is beyond reason. If Heather Doncaster were a republican and was saying these things about Joe Biden, the action would have been swift and brutal. Why does the Anchorage School District and the Anchorage School Board feel it is so valuable to hold onto these people.
You all are just so hateful!! We all have the right to free speech and a level of respect even a level of privacy. This individual is a beautiful soul that has been an amazing teacher for years. They are also a talented entertainer and activist for all marginalized individuals. A beloved member of the community. In the world we are living in today. I am sad to see this publication stoop to such lows as to publish this. This is not news, this hate. #shameonmustreadalaska
Wrong! People like your “beautiful soul” need to be called out when they raise their ugly heads about the rest of us and spout their ugly rhetoric. A teacher who would act like this is not amazing. The shame belongs to Doncaster. This is not hate. Facts are not hate. If you want validation for your lifestyle and for people who call for someone to kill the President of the United States, the Anchorage Daily News is there for you. Please, seek counseling. Lots of counseling.
Marginalized?!
You know what normal, healthy, mentally and morally sound people put in their periphery? Lies. Fake stuff. People who do one thing and then say another. Hypocrisy. Devil filled junk. Rubbish. Gross things.
It appears to me that this he-she, confused and can’t decide person would be better suited to run for the skittle based question mark alphabet assembly than work around children. Children need adults who are responsible, who have self purpose, self-control, and honorable intentions… not a Halloween joke of an outfit and someone who takes advantage of tax payers and their children. People like this, the “marginalized” as you called them, usually go after normal, healthy children from good families since they don’t have any of their own to spoil.
Get a grip.
Marginalized or not, it can’t be around children in a society who SHOULD put children first.
“Beautiful soul” do not post pics of themselves holding signs that say “F**k Trump.”
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Stop making excuses for anti-social behavior.
And we all just love sparkly unicorns
They? Is there more than one person? Multiple personalities? Grammar aside, the subject individual crossed the line with public threats to a sitting President and apparently during school hours, likely on school grounds. That has nothing to do with their gender confusion albeit could be connected to their mental illness. Either way, unacceptable.
💕 Preach!
Timothy, having a different opinion isn’t “hateful”.
This teacher in essence advocating for the death of another person, however is definitely hateful. Beautiful souls don’t want others dead or spew foulmouthed tirades.
It should be pointed out that if you label everything as “hate/hateful” then you never have to address the content and defacto rob everyone else of the “free speech right” you claim for yourself. It is a form of passive aggressive censorship. Your chastisement of MRAK for posting this story is a great example.
Mrs. Doncaster’s post seized to be “free speech” when she chose to use a publicly paid for platform apparently during work hours. At that point she is a representative of the school district.
Your demand for “privacy” is quite interesting, considering that this person makes a public spectacle of her convictions and lifestyle.
What she does in her off time is her business, but using the ASD platform makes me wonder how much of her alter-persona she brings into the classroom. Parents have a right and duty to know, who teaches their children.
Haha
While Ms. Doncaster has done good for her community, her and her “friends” have alienated supposed Trump supporters and tried to cancel them from the arts community. Not for those supposed supporters being hateful, rude, bigoted or discriminatory but just for being supposed Trump supporters.
Additionally, “beautiful souls” are not full of hate. It is quite clear Ms. Doncaster has hate in her heart for a specific person and has let it fester to alienate people who quite literally support her and love her/Hank as well as the community. Sad really.
That being said, your comment about Suzanne “stooping so low” to publish this story is absolutely hypocritical. Ms. Doncaster literally called for the death of the President of the United States.
And yes, while you do have the right to privacy in the comfort of your own home, you don’t have that privilege when you make public statements on public platforms or in public places. Further, yes you do have the right to free speech but not freedom from consequences. Ms. Doncaster did this to herself. If she’s investigated and loses her employment, she has no one to blame but herself.
Ironically, Trump is more tolerant of these mentally ill people than any other president in history.
🤣 than any other president in history? You people are hilarious 😂
Bill Clinton signed DOMA – defense of (traditional) marriage act.
Hillary said: “marriage is a sacred bond between a man & a woman.”
Barrack Obama said: “I believe marriage is between a man & a woman ….. for me as a Christian it is a sacred union. God is in the mix”
Those are your Dems Julie ….
Clubbing people w/ their “Christianity”
“You people are hilarious ”
Julie sadly it is you and your crowd that are somewhat hilarious. If you think your pithy one liners are smart, you are on the wrong blog. We here at MRAK like a good argument, but you actually have to have some reasoning to back it up.
So Julie in your opinion which president was more harassed, maligned and sued?
I mean even Richard Nixon got more respect and he was definitely a crook!
Oh and we are still waiting on a list of the “fascist policies” your friend is so upset about……
She has been a teacher in the district for about 25 years. She is intelligent and was a great person when I worked with her. It is really sad to hear that she has let TDS take over.
It is very sad. It is one thing to struggle in private and still excel in one’s career but the line is crossed when threats are made. Publicly and during school hours no less.
Because she is against the fascist policies of the trump administration she is no longer a great teacher? That is complete bs.
How is Trump a fascist? Everything Trump does is based on the concepts of Capitalism. This includes free markets and freedom for all citizens (real citizens).
Please list the “fascist” policies and please be specific.
Thank you
You don’t know what fascist is Julie. How many commie retards do we have running loose around her. Good grief.
Fascist policies? Name one Julie. Just one. And if you think enforcing the law is fascist, that’s what I figured you’d point out.
Julie:
Please enumerate several of the fascist polies that Trump is advocating for. I need to know, because frankly I do not see them.
Julie, just fascist? Usually there are at least three names called. Are you feeling ok?
Now you can compare ASD with Holy Rosary Academy. Now you know why Alaska Students ranked 49th, out of 50 states in Academic Performance. When a School District —-UNION—-Cares more about protecting the rights of a HATE FILLED MINORITY TEACHER than protecting the KIDS. It is time replace the whole administration with OLD SCHOOL NUNS. Back to the future.
Sami Graham August 18, 2025 At 6:48 pm
It will be interesting to see how the ASD and NEA address threats against a seated president.
Hmmm? And if they do nothing, isn’t that grounds to recall the entire school board?
ASD and NEA will not do squat. Just watch
Bet Heather Doncaster has a mate or fellow dragster queen at the school
ASD is a bunch of folks whom cover-up and run and hide
Bet Heather stays around for a long-haul and then gets $millions after the lawsuit in 2026 is settled without prejudice.
Once upon a time, my opinion was as that as long as he firewalls his after hours actions, they are his business. Keep it out of the classroom.
However, the last 15 years have shown such restraint is impossible for these particular individuals.
They will bring it into the classroom. They can’t not.
Regarding violent threats: that should be insta firing. But we are talking Anchorage public schools, so….
Yep. If you do drag in your spare time you are seeking attention & lots of it.
If this broad held up a ‘f’ Obama placard they would have been fired ….. imo.
My My, how the turns have tabled.
So, let’s put this into a new perspective. Let’s say IT was a white man and the sign said “F Black people” or “Jews’, how would you justify these ideas? Would you defend it as freedom of speech? Individual rights? What one person does in their own homes doesn’t affect the rest of us? Who would be the hateful victim? How should the leadership/board respond? What actions should be taken?
Just want those people defending this psychological dysphoria to realize that they don’t have any morales or ethics to stand behind. Sick people like IT shouldn’t be in any public system.
How exactly is ASD screening applicants for open teaching positions in district grade schools-or high school teaching vacancies for that matter.
Obviously it’s time to reinstate corporal punishment in grade school….only this time for teachers and not the students.
All NEA wants is more money for retirement pay and insurance benefits for the teachers so they can retire at 5. They also want them to make a full years pay for 9 months work and say whatever they want within the closed classroom to our children. How about a recording device to see what these teachers are really teaching.
Nothing new from ASD.
On day one of the school year, before we pulled our kids out of ASD and sent them Outside to finish up, their middle school science teacher showed the kids ALL of her tats, many of which required partial disrobing. She explained to them what each tat represented and that they should give some thought as to which ones they want for themselves.
The hits kept coming when the same teacher told the entire class, “You might be gay, and the only way to find out for sure is to try it.”
Or, “don’t go in the Army or the Marines because they don’t take care of their families.” WTF?
When you go to the Principal to ask how any of the above nonsense makes its way into the classroom and it turns out he is a gay man who is more outrageously feminine than any of his female teachers, the question kind of answers itself.
This person doesn’t need Guardrail 3 as much as it needs to touch the third rail