Ye, previously often known as Kanye West, opened Donda Academy in September 2022. The college reportedly closed down the next month, round when his antisemitic feedback led a number of manufacturers he had enterprise partnerships with to chop ties. The closure of the rapper’s unaccredited Christian faculty was apparently non permanent, nonetheless, and because it’s been again up and working, former staff have sued him and the varsity.
Isaiah Meadows filed go well with on Thursday for wrongful termination in addition to breach of contract, alleging schooling, well being, security, and labor violations, in accordance with Web page Six. Meadows was the assistant principal on the 2020 iteration of the varsity, then known as Yeezy Christian Academy, earlier than it later turned Donda Academy, The Guardian reviews. He claims within the submitting that there have been a number of points with the varsity, together with uncovered wiring, septic tank points, and no sizzling water, a selected downside throughout a world pandemic.
The oddest allegation might be that Ye doesn’t “like glass.” Per Web page Six, the go well with reads, “In the midst of the principle classroom, a skylight was left with out glass inevitably permitting rain to fall straight inside, the place water would soak into the ground, which might result in a moldy scent for the following few days,” specifying, “The skylight was deliberately with out glass as a result of WEST expressed that he didn’t like glass.”
Meadows mentioned he raised these security issues, and was fired. (He was reportedly later reinstated, however demoted. Vainness Truthful has reached out to Ye and Donda Academy for remark.)
In April, former Donda Academy academics Cecilia Hailey and Chekarey Byers additionally filed a lawsuit in opposition to Ye and the varsity, alleging racial discrimination and wrongful termination, Web page Six reported on the time. Moreover reportedly claiming they had been the one Black girls employed as academics on the faculty, Hailey and Byers mentioned within the submitting that Ye was “afraid” of stairs, so no lessons had been held on the second flooring, and he didn’t like standard cleansing merchandise. In keeping with a replica of the lawsuit offered to Vice, no utensils had been allowed, and the youngsters had been fed sushi for lunch every single day. The go well with reportedly alleged the children weren’t allowed outdoor in the course of the faculty day and that the doorways had been locked from the skin. Crosswords and different puzzles had been allegedly banned, which isn’t a downside actually, simply unusual.
To maintain a working checklist, Ye is allegedly in opposition to: crosswords, glass ceilings, forks, cleansing merchandise, hearth security, and stairs.
In keeping with NBC Information, Ye’s lawyer Gregory Suhr mentioned in a current Los Angeles County Superior Court docket submitting, “None of it’s true and the allegations do a disservice to the Donda Academy’s present workers and college students and their dad and mom who will attest to their constructive expertise.”
Legal professionals for Donda Academy reportedly mentioned in a separate submitting in Might that Hailey and Byers’s go well with was “fatally unsure, ambiguous, and unintelligible.”
The destiny of those lawsuits remains to be TBD, however Donda Academy is accepting functions for the 2023-2024 faculty yr.
