you, formerly known as Kanye West, opened Donda Academy in September 2022. The school was said to have closed the following month, when his anti-Semitic comments caused some of the branding he had Business partnership sever ties. However, the closure of the rapper’s unaccredited Christian school was clearly temporary, and since it was back up and running, former employees sued him and the school.
The Meadow of Isaiah filed a lawsuit on Thursday for wrongful termination and breach of contract, alleging education, health, safety and labor violations, according to Page Six.. Meadows was the assistant principal at the 2020 repeat school, then known as Yeezy Christian Academy, before it became Donda Academy, guard report. He stated in the filing that there were a number of problems with the school, including exposed wiring, septic tank problems, and no hot water, a particular problem during a global pandemic.
Perhaps the strangest allegation is that Ye doesn’t “like glass”. According to Page Six, the lawsuit reads: “In the middle of the main classroom, a skylight without sturdy glass caused rainwater to rush inside, where it would seep into the floor, resulting in a musty smell for the next few classes. . day,” pointed out, “The skylight intentionally had no glass because WEST expressed that he didn’t like glasses.”
Meadows said he raised these safety concerns and was fired. (According to reports, he was later reinstated, but demoted. Vanity Fair Have reached out to Ye and Donda Academy for comment.)
In April, former Donda . Academy teachers Truong Ba Chi And Chekarey Byers also filed a lawsuit against Ye and the school, alleging racial discrimination and wrongful termination, Page Six reported at the time. Besides claiming they were the only Black women employed as teachers at the school, Hailey and Byers said in the filing that Ye was “fearful” of stairs so no classes were held on the second floor. and he doesn’t like the usual cleaning. products. According to a copy of the lawsuit provided to Vice, no utensils were allowed and the children were given sushi for lunch every day. The lawsuit alleges the children were not allowed outside during the school day and the doors were locked from the outside. Crosswords and other puzzles are supposed to be forbidden, this is not problem really, just weird.
To keep a running list, Ye is allegedly against: crossword puzzles, glass ceilings, forks, cleaning products, fire safety, and stairs.
According to NBC News, Ye .’s lawyer Gregory Suhr said in a recent Los Angeles County Superior Court filing, “None of these are true and the allegations are detrimental to current Donda Academy staff and students and their parents. them, who will attest to their positive experience.”
Donda Academy lawyers said in a separate filing in May that Hailey and Byers’ lawsuit was “uncertain, ambiguous and confusing.”
The fate of these lawsuits remains TBD, but Donda Academy is accepting applications for the 2023-2024 school year.
