A Pennsylvania superintendent allegedly fired an elementary school principal for posting conservative memes on Facebook, reported Fox News.
Amy Sacks, the former principal of Evergreen Elementary School in Collegeville, worked at Perkiomen Valley Public School District for two decades until July, reported Fox News. She is suing for $500,000 after claiming she was terminated for her political posts on social media, Fox News reported.
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Veteran educator Amy Sacks was the principal of Evergreen Elementary School
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A parent at the school complained to Superintendent Barbara Russell, who believed Sacks to be racist and told her the posts were “offensive, unacceptable and unprofessional,” reported The Daily Mail. (RELATED: ‘Who’s Gonna Cancel Me?’: Ricky Gervais Says He’ll ‘Stand Up On A Bench And Shout S**t’ If Twitter Boots Him)
In an interview on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Sacks and Francis Malofiy, her attorney, shared one of the posts that led to her dismissal. The image in question was a picture of a potato with a caption that read, “This is a potato. If this potato was running against Joe Biden, I’d vote for the potato.”
“This cancel culture within the public school system has to stop,” Sacks wrote in a post on the Facebook account “No Left Turn in Education.”
Malofiy and Sacks’ other attorney, AJ Fluehr, wrote in a November letter announcing the lawsuit that the school board’s firing of Sacks was illegal, according to Fox News.
“At no point was Amy advised to get counsel, nor was she informed of her rights; instead she was viciously threatened with career ruination if she tried to contest anything happening,” the attorneys wrote. “On July 13, 2020, the board approved Amy’s termination, absurdly and Orwellianly recharacterizing it as a ‘resignation’ to hide what they had done.”
“This conduct was wildly illegal,” they continued. “Amy has a near absolute right to free speech on her private Facebook account.”