A Florida substitute teacher has reportedly been fired for posting a video of empty bookshelves in a center faculty library, a video that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) called a “fake narrative” earlier this week.
Brian Covey, who was a substitute teacher at Mandarin Middle School in Duval County, posted a video on Jan. 27 that confirmed aisles of empty bookshelves within the faculty’s library. The day earlier than, he had additionally tweeted, “They removed every single book from my children’s classrooms.”
DeSantis stated at a press convention on Tuesday that the video Covey posted was a “fake narrative” and “was not true.”
Covey stated that he was fired on Wednesday, almost three weeks after he posted the preliminary video, in keeping with First Coast News.
In an announcement first offered to First Coast News, Duval County Public Schools confirmed that Covey was fired in connection to his social media posts.
“In discussion between the district and ESS regarding this individual’s misrepresentation of the books available to students in the school’s library and the disruption this misrepresentation has caused, it was determined that he had violated social media and cell phone policies of his employer. Therefore, ESS determined these policy violations made it necessary to part ways with this individual,” the assertion learn.
ESS is a company that contracts substitute lecturers to the Duval County Public Schools, in keeping with the website.
DeSantis not too long ago signed a invoice into legislation that required public faculty books in Florida to be age applicable for college kids, freed from pornographic materials and “suited” to the wants of the scholars, which has prompted faculty officers to evaluate books of their libraries.
The Hill has reached out to DeSantis’s workplace and Duval County Public Schools for remark.
Covey posted a video responding to DeSantis’s “fake narrative” feedback final week, exhibiting a number of empty e book cabinets and saying the county had solely reviewed a small fraction of e book titles.
Duval County Public Schools responded to Covey’s posts, saying that the video Covey posted confirmed “less than half the story” in a tweet. “Yes, those shelves were empty. But they were in a room full of books,” it added.