Pushback: Teacher fired for daring to attend rally on January 6th wins lawsuit
Jason Moorehead at the Washington
Monument rally on January 6, 2021.
Click for original image.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Jason Moorehead, who was fired for being in Washington on January 6, 2021 to attend a Trump rally at the Washington Monument (never getting within a mile of the Capitol and thus never participating in any way with any violent events there), has now won a wrongful termination suit from the Pennsylvania Allentown School District as well as two school board members.
On Aug. 16, a jury awarded Moorehead $131,500, most of which will come from the district. Two school board members, Lisa Conover and Nancy Wilt, are liable for $6,000 and $500 respectively. Moorehead had not specified a desired dollar amount for “loss of earnings, loss of career, reputational damage, mental and emotional pain and suffering,” and punitive damages.
Moorehead’s lawyer AJ Fleuhr said in statement that he and his client were happy “a federal jury recognized that the Allentown School District violated Jason Moorehead’s First Amendment rights to free speech, assembly, and political affiliation,” and that the named board members had “maliciously and wantonly attacked him.”
It appears that when locals learned that Moorehead had been in Washington at the Trump rally, a group calling itself Community Research Opposing Hate (CROH Lehigh Valley) immediately slandered him as a “fascist” and demanded that he “never teach Allentown students ever again,” calling his presence in the classroom unsafe.
The school district then suspended Moorehead, who had taught social studies in the district for the past seventeen years. During its extensive interrogations of him that followed it offered to keep him employed if “he took a ‘cultural sensitivity’ course. Moorehead refused, alleging the district had “created an unsafe, hostile work environment.” He was then fired.
Though Moorehead has won this lawsuit, he has not returned to teaching. He wants an apology from the school district for its slanderous treatment of him as well as its violation of his first amendment rights. The district however has made it clear so far that “does not intend to make any further statements regarding this matter.”
In a sense this is both a victory and a defeat. The victory is not only that Moorehead won his lawsuit, he won actual financial penalties from the pockets of two school board members, who apparently did what is now routine, went public with slanderous statements against him without evidence. The defeat is that he is no longer a teacher at Allentown. That corrupt school district — in a city that is largely dominated by Democrats — will now be free to replace him with someone who will do the leftist indoctrination it wants.
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Jason Moorehead at the Washington
Monument rally on January 6, 2021.
Click for original image.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Jason Moorehead, who was fired for being in Washington on January 6, 2021 to attend a Trump rally at the Washington Monument (never getting within a mile of the Capitol and thus never participating in any way with any violent events there), has now won a wrongful termination suit from the Pennsylvania Allentown School District as well as two school board members.
On Aug. 16, a jury awarded Moorehead $131,500, most of which will come from the district. Two school board members, Lisa Conover and Nancy Wilt, are liable for $6,000 and $500 respectively. Moorehead had not specified a desired dollar amount for “loss of earnings, loss of career, reputational damage, mental and emotional pain and suffering,” and punitive damages.
Moorehead’s lawyer AJ Fleuhr said in statement that he and his client were happy “a federal jury recognized that the Allentown School District violated Jason Moorehead’s First Amendment rights to free speech, assembly, and political affiliation,” and that the named board members had “maliciously and wantonly attacked him.”
It appears that when locals learned that Moorehead had been in Washington at the Trump rally, a group calling itself Community Research Opposing Hate (CROH Lehigh Valley) immediately slandered him as a “fascist” and demanded that he “never teach Allentown students ever again,” calling his presence in the classroom unsafe.
The school district then suspended Moorehead, who had taught social studies in the district for the past seventeen years. During its extensive interrogations of him that followed it offered to keep him employed if “he took a ‘cultural sensitivity’ course. Moorehead refused, alleging the district had “created an unsafe, hostile work environment.” He was then fired.
Though Moorehead has won this lawsuit, he has not returned to teaching. He wants an apology from the school district for its slanderous treatment of him as well as its violation of his first amendment rights. The district however has made it clear so far that “does not intend to make any further statements regarding this matter.”
In a sense this is both a victory and a defeat. The victory is not only that Moorehead won his lawsuit, he won actual financial penalties from the pockets of two school board members, who apparently did what is now routine, went public with slanderous statements against him without evidence. The defeat is that he is no longer a teacher at Allentown. That corrupt school district — in a city that is largely dominated by Democrats — will now be free to replace him with someone who will do the leftist indoctrination it wants.
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Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuses to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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I’m glad that he won the money damages. However I wonder if he sought reinstatement to his position that he had. I understand that reinstatement is a remedy in the event of wrongful termination. Courts have the power to order the reinstatement of a wrongfully terminated employee.
Why in the world would you want to go back to an environment where you know people do not like you, and do not want you there? And why would you want to, in any way, facilitate the agenda of a legally proven FIfth Column? It may be that the hiring of wrongfully-terminated people becomes something of a badge of honor for organizations and institutions. Talk about helping the oppressed.
A partial victory against the #AmericanInquisition.
Seems like a PITTANCE for what he has been subjected to! And the “losers” in this are the STUDENTS who have lost access to an evidently good or great TEACHER! What an inspiration and EXAMPLE of what BEING an AMERICAN he would be to those kids! He could be an example of someone who is grossly WRONGED by the INTOLERANT LEFT, had his CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATED, and PREVAILED in a Court of LAW! As far as being in a “hostile environment”? There are RETALIATION Laws to cover that. I hope he’s happy in whatever he is doing now and is enjoying his life and VOTING FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!
demanded that he “never teach Allentown students ever again,” calling his presence in the classroom unsafe.
They won
a jury awarded Moorehead $131,500, most of which will come from the district. Two school board members, Lisa Conover and Nancy Wilt, are liable for $6,000 and $500 respectively.
In other words, after paying for the lawyers, he’s negative. And $500? Why bother? I’d rather watch the literal slap-on-the-wrist.
At best, this is a draw.
Meanwhile, in Oklahoma…
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/08/video-school-bans-american-flag-flying-on-students-truck/
In one sense you have to admire the left. They understand that they are in a no holds barred war against this country, its heritage, and its culture, and *they never give up.* As it now stands, every schoolroom — or college lecture hall — is a battleground of ideas*, and these are engagements that we cannot afford to lose.
*Just ask the teachers’ unions.