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Pennsylvania principal fired for political posts

Published in Blog on December 11, 2020 by The COS Maryland Team

Pennsylvania elementary school Principal Amy Sacks was fired from her position and then demoted, because she posted a series of political memes on Facebook, one of which compared Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s intellect to a potato, according to a civil complaint filed on her behalf.

Sacks, a 20-year veteran of the Perkiomen Valley School District, also posted political memes on her personal account earlier this year opposing Democratic politicians, condemning rioting, and supporting police.

The memes--all of which are contained in the complaint--drew the ire of an anonymous parent and the school’s “cancel culture and liberal bureaucrats.”

Sacks was told she was being terminated as principal, because the memes were “offensive, unacceptable, and unprofessional.” She is suing the school for reinstatement.

During a recent interview, commentator Tucker Carlson asked Sacks if the memes were “extremist material.”

She replied, “Absolutely not” and characterized them simply as “right-of-center posts that showed the absurdity of what was going on in the news.”

Sacks has served the last seven years as Principal of Evergreen Elementary without issue, and her school has been cited as one of the top 15 schools in the Commonwealth.

“The notion that a public employee without a disciplinary record could be severely disciplined without notice for privately posting memes … is almost beyond comprehension,” the complaint says.

Sacks’ attorney Francis Malofiy told Carlson, “The First Amendment allows us to share opinions, share thoughts, and share speech without persecution or prosecution from the government.”

He went on to assert that Sacks’ First Amendment rights to free expression and political association had been violated--as well as her Fourteenth Amendment due process rights--because she was fired without just cause or notice.

According to Supreme Court case law cited in the civil complaint, “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics...”

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