Kanye West and Donda Academy Sued for Allegedly Violating Education, Health and Safety Codes
etonline.comKanye West and his Donda Academy are being sued. Two former teachers at the 45-year-old rapper's private, Christian school are suing him, his school and three of its directors for code violations, according to court docs obtained by ET.ET has reached out to Donda Academy for comment.
West was unable to be reached for comment.The plaintiffs, Cecilia Hailey and her daughter, Chekarey Byers, claim that they were fired as teachers in March 2023 in retaliation for reporting code violations.
The women, who say in the suit that they were the only Black female teachers at the school, additionally allege that they were discriminated against based on their race and that they illegally had wages withheld or were repeatedly improperly paid.«Kanye West is clearly as bad at running a school as he is at managing his own personal and professional life, enabling an unsafe and illegal school environment for students that also discriminated against the plaintiffs based on their race,» the women's attorney, Ron Zambrano, said in a press release. «These egregious violations at Donda Academy are just another example of West’s unusual behavior, and our clients just won't stand for it, no matter his celebrity status.
Kanye needs to realize his genius is in creating music, not in school administration.»In the docs, the women claim that Donda Academy was not following state regulations for students in need of educational services, additional testing or individualized learning plans.
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