A budget committee chairman in Hampstead, New Hampshire, has been banned from school property and faces calls for resignation after comments he made Thursday night while discussing safety issues on district campuses.

In arguing against a proposed $4.5 million addition and renovation project at Hampstead Central School, Jorge Mesa-Tejada described, from a first-person account, how a trained killer would attack the school. District officials were discussing eliminating the mobile classrooms and having all students remain inside the main building, but Mr. Mesa-Tejada said that wouldn’t made them any safer, a local ABC News affiliate reported.

“Based on my Marine Corps training, if I wanted to do them harm, I wouldn’t do it while they are changing, going from the portable to the main building,” he said during the meeting Thursday. “I would wait until recess, I would hide in the woods behind them, and I’d have a field day.”

Another budget committee member reportedly then told Mr. Mesa-Tejada, “No more.”

On Friday, school Superintendent Earl Metzler issued a no-trespass order barring Mr. Mesa-Tejada from entering school property without permission.

“(W)e take seriously these offensive and disgusting statements made by Mr. Mesa-Tejada and wholeheartedly denounce his behavior and blatant display of disregard for our children and their safety,” Mr. Metzler and school board Chairman Jason Cipriano said in a letter.

On Sunday, Mr. Mesa-Tejada apologized for the comments, saying in a written statement: “My intention was to highlight the fact that the children are more at risk on the playground than when moving between the trailers and the main building, should someone want to harm them.

“Stupidly, I used excessively graphic language. It’s inexcusable and I apologize,” he said.

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