By John Crussel
Washington (Reuters), the United States, refused on Monday to examine a case related to a teacher at the Massachusetts State School, who brought a free speech place after her school dismissed her in what she called revenge on social media publications before her work.
The judges dismissed the plaintiff’s appeal Carrie Macra for dismissing her case in her case, which demanded monetary damage from public schools and school staff in Hanover. The lower court found that officials and district had not violated the protection of the first amendment to the US Constitution against the reduction of the Government of Freedom of expression, as Maka claims.
Macrae was fired in 2021 after school officials discovered half a dozen social media publications she likes, shares, publishes or reposts with her Tiktok account, characterized by employees such as memorials containing “homophobia, transphobia and racism”.
According to court records, a meme showed a photo of Rachel Levine, a transsexual woman who served as an American assistant secretary of health during the Democrats President Joe Biden’s administration, with a text that reads: “I am an expert on mental health and eating disorders”. … says the man with obese he thinks is a woman. “Another MEM showed a photo of a muscular, bearded man wearing a sports bra with a text that reads:” Hi, my name is Magan, I’m here for the girl’s meeting on the track. “
Another showed a photo of a panda with a text that reads: “Dude, racism is stupid. I’m black, white and asian. But everyone loves me,” according to court records.
According to disputed positions, there are months before Macray is hired at the school, according to court records.
Makra is currently running as a Republican for a place in the Senate of Massachusetts.
Also, before hiring, Macrae published a Tiktok video in 2021 as part of her successful offer for the school council position in a different school area, in which she said that “the theory of critical race” should not be taught in public schools and that students should not be “scientists that they can choose whether they want to be a girl or boy.”
Makra was fired about a month after the school neighborhood hired it as a mathematics and business teacher. The school staff said in the letter to terminate Macrae that “continuing your work in the light of your social media publications would have a significant negative impact on students’ education” at the school.
In her court case, Macrae accused public schools in Hanover and school officials for illegally avenging her for a speech protected by the first amendment.
The dispute replaced the Supreme Court’s decision of 1968 related to the rights of the first amendment of public officials. The court in this case ruled that until civil servants deprive their right to express themselves on public matters, the rights to the employee’s free speech must be weighted on the government’s interest in maintaining a workplace without interruption.
A Boston -based federal judge, in a 2023 decision, applied the previous decision of the Supreme Court and determined that the Hanover public schools showed sufficient evidence of the potential for interruption to justify Makra’s shooting. The judge also ruled that school employees are entitled to qualified immunity, legal doctrine, which widely protects civil servants from responsibility.
The Boston-based 1st Court of Appeal has upheld the decision, which prompts Macrae’s complaint before the Supreme Court.
Macrae claims that the previous Supreme Court’s decision should not be applied to her case, as he includes comments made by an busy teacher, while controversial publications on Macrae’s social media were made before her work by public schools in Hanover.
Conservative justice Clarence Thomas wrote on Monday that until he agreed with the court’s decision to dismiss Makra’s appeal, he hoped in a future case that his opinion that public employers could not rely on previous court decisions to focus on employees. “
(Report by John Crussel; Editing by Will Dunham)