The lawsuit alleges the video was posted on the teacher's personal Facebook account, which was operating under a pseudonym.
filed Tuesday against the Berkeley County School District and the district's former superintendent alleged Holly Chapman, identified as a"certified teacher with an active certification in good standing," was"told she could either immediately resign or be terminated" in February after posting the video on her personal account about two months earlier.
"In this case, Berkeley County School District terminated a teacher and sought to revoke her teaching license by labeling her comments as immoral, because she shared her opinions on governmental rules for mask wearing during the COVID pandemic," the lawsuit alleged. A former teacher alleges the school district she used to work for forced her to resign earlier this year after she posted a video about mask mandates on Facebook. Here, a storefront sign photographed on July 19 reminds people in Los Angeles, California, to wear a mask.Chapman was initially hired by the district in mid-2015 and"received no disciplinary actions" while working there before the December 2020 video she posted resurfaced about a month later, the court documents said.
The video was posted to Chapman's personal Facebook page, which was operated under a pseudonym and was not"friends" with any of her students, her attorneys said.
The district's human resources official"directed her to write a follow-up statement explicitly describing the content of her speech," and after Chapman did so, she was told to either resign or be fired a couple of days later, the lawsuit alleged. Chapman"was not given a reasonable amount of time to weigh her options, or seek counsel," the allegations continued.
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