Stephen Miller used to eat glue, his Santa Monica school teacher said. She was placed on leave.

A woman who has been White House adviser Stephen Miller's third-grade teacher has been placed on the payroll of this week.

Gail Pinsker, a spokeswoman for the Monica-Malibu Unified School District, said school officials have been concerned about whether or not Nikki Fiske had improperly released private student information.

Fiske, who has taught Franklin Elementary School in Santa Monica for 30 years, painted an unflattering portrait of Miller as a third-grader in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter. She said that she was a messy kid who was always trying to get her clean up, "a strange dude" who would eat her off.

"I remember being concerned about him – not academically," she said. "But he had such strange personal clothes. He was a loner and isolated by himself all the time. "

She said she was writing about her school record – "I had a lot of them," she said – but that she could not remember all of them, 25 years later.

"When the main school had a conference with Stephen's parents, the parents were horrified. So the main took some of my comments, "she said. "Of course, Stephen was not political then – it was not until later that he started to make waves."

Fiske did not immediately return messages in public records.

Miller's childhood in Santa Monica, a liberal beachside enclave in Los Angeles, has been subject to considerable scrutiny as a senior adviser to the president. Miller is considered a hard-liner on the issue of immigration in the White House, and had a significant role in the changes that resulted in the separation of the crisis. Miller's uncle, David S. Glosser wrote a scathing op-ed earlier this year that highlighted the family's own immigration history to the United States and accused Miller of being a hypocrite. And the family's rabbi denounced Miller in a Rosh Hashanah sermon that drew wide coverage in September.

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