Kanye West’s Donda Academy is being sued by two former teachers in a bombshell wrongful termination lawsuit, with the educators making a series of disturbing allegations over what went on inside the secretive school.
Court documents obtained by DailyMail.com detail allegations made by Cecilia Hailey and her daughter Chekarey Byers, who claim to have witnessed children at the academy being fed just one meal of sushi a day while campus staff violated numerous troubling health and safety regulations.
They claim that they were discriminated against based on their race, had wages illegally held from them, and were terminated from the school in retaliation for reporting code violations.
Among the bizarre and unsettling allegations made against the school are that all color, including artwork, was banned from inside classrooms, everyone was forced to wear all black from head to toe, and classes were banned from the second floor because West was ‘afraid of stairs’.
The controversial Grammy Award-winning artist opened the $15,000-a-year academy in California in 2021, but he is now facing damages in excess of $1 million alongside the school and three of its directors.
Kanye West is facing a string of bombshell allegations related to practices inside his Donda Academy school
The rapper allegedly subjected students at the school to bizarre rules, including that they cannot have classes on the second floor because he is ‘afraid of stairs’
Shortly after taking a job as a fifth-grade teacher in January 2023, Byers alleges that she began noticing numerous unsettling rules and practices inside the school, including rampant bullying and a lack of any security measures in the high-profile academy.
After raising concerns over the repeated health and safety violations and unlawful education practices with school principal Moira Love, the lawsuit states that ‘no action was taken’ to remedy the issues.
As well as claiming that students were fed only one meal a…
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