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— Billidan Stormrage (@Tzeriel) November 9, 2016

The petition quotes Navarro as saying: “To stand quiet in the face of bigotry and to turn your eyes away from it is to back up the bigotry, and that’s not what I, or any history teacher, should be doing in our work.”

In addition to revoking his suspension, the petition seeks an apology to the teacher from the school, “for attempting to intimidate a respected educator. We will not stand for censorship and respectability politics.”

Navarro, speaking to The Mercury News, said he was initially told he could return on Wednesday, but the school district’s Superintendent Jeff Harding has since told him he can come back as early as Monday.

“We are interested in getting Frank back in the classroom … we’re just trying to maintain our due diligence,” Harding told the paper. “We have a heightened emotional environment right now with the election. It’s always a challenge to maintain a line in a classroom.”

Many public figures have made comparisons between Trump and Hitler. Conservative radio host Glenn Beck, comedian Louis C.K., Hewlett Packard executive Meg Whitman, musicians Roger Waters and Cher, and Anne Frank’s stepsister, Eva Schloss, have made similar statements. Social media users have also compared the two.