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Former Donda Academy Teacher Suing Kanye West Speaks Out, Says Kids Aren’t Progressing

A wrongful termination suit was filed last week and cited multiple code violations.

One of the former teachers of Yeโ€™s (the artist formerly known as Kanye West) Donda Academy thatโ€™s currently suing him and the school for wrongful termination is speaking out.

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In a new interview with TMZ, Cecilia Hailey divulged more alleged details on the โ€œcode violationsโ€ she and daughter/fellow plaintiff Chekarey Byers said were taking place at the school, including the fact that the children arenโ€™t getting graded properly nor learning about important factual events. She also said that parents whoโ€™ve enrolled their kids in the school need to be aware that it will be a difficult road ahead of them when trying to get them into a better school.

โ€œThey need to be aware that their children are behind and that they need to consider that itโ€™s gonna be very hard for them to be able to transfer their kids out of that school next year,โ€ Hailey began. โ€œOr later because there is no grades. Which I think they know of, and they canโ€™t get transcripts. And that theyโ€™re not getting what they need. Theyโ€™re absolutely not getting what they need.โ€

She continued:

โ€œThe kids are being suppressed because of all the constant changes that go on at the school. We have something in place thatโ€™s kind of called โ€˜educateโ€™ that we havenโ€™t even been keeping up with. But since Iโ€™ve been there, there have been no report cards given to the students or progress reports. So because Dondaโ€™s not accredited, you really canโ€™t get any documents from the school to show where youโ€™ve been.

โ€œWe can tell you on things that we graded. But for it to be legitimately documented with the Department of Education, they donโ€™t have that. And so what happens is when kids do leave to go to another public or private school, they are then tested. And if theyโ€™re gonna test themโ€”if they come in at third grade level or fourth grade level and theyโ€™re in the sixth gradeโ€”theyโ€™re going to go in the third grade. Or theyโ€™re going to be considered getting IDP or learning disabled because theyโ€™re behind. But it wonโ€™t be the childโ€™s fault that theyโ€™re behind, it is Dondaโ€™s fault.โ€œ

Hailey then went on to allege that the kids did not learn about important historical events like the Holocaust nor did they have an African-American history class or engage in any celebration of Black History Month.

As previously reported by The Root, Hailey and Byers are suing the Jesus Is King artist and his school on the grounds that they were let go from their positions as teachers last month โ€œin retaliation for reporting code violations.โ€ They also claim that they were โ€œdiscriminated against based on their race and illegally had wages withheld or were repeatedly improperly paid.โ€

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