A former elementary school teacher in Austin, Texas says she was fired over a TikTok video and now she’s advocating for policy changes to keep this from happening to someone else.
in Austin, Texas says she was fired over a TikTok video and now she’s advocating for policy changes to keep this from happening to someone else.
Sophia says this began with a lesson about the Holocaust. In Texas, schools are required to teach students about the genocide during its remembrance week. Sophia says students drew similarities between nationalism and propaganda from the lesson which motivated them to question the pledge of allegiance and then decided to protest the pledge.
The next day the former teacher says human resources told her she was being placed on administrative leave. KEYE reached out to the district and asked which specific policy Sophia violated and if AISD would be willing to share the documentation.KEYE searched the district's employee handbook. Under a section about electronic communication and personal use, a policy was found stating:
“The big thing that I want to come out of this is that I want to see a policy change. This policy specifically was incredibly vague and could be interpreted however the district wanted it to fire teachers and sweep things under the rug. I was not willing to talk away from this quietly knowing that I don’t feel like I violated any of that policy to begin with,” said Deloretto-Chudy.
"How does it benefit me to come out publicly like this, like I have had my character attacked? I'm not making any extra money off of this. You don't get money for being viral on Tiktok about political issues. I have been worried about my own safety. And I don't gain anything personally at this point," said Deloretto-Chudy.
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