Gwyneth Paltrow's $65k-a-year-former school 'bullied out beloved bi-racial French teacher after headteacher's woke daughter made VERY petty complaint

A fashionable teacher astatine Gwyneth Paltrow's erstwhile backstage schoolhouse says she has been near destitute and unemployable aft being targeted by the caput of the school's woke daughter.

Anne Protopappas, 62, spent decades teaching languages to girls astatine the $62,000-a-year Spence School connected New York's Upper East Side earlier being fired by the caput of the school, Felicia Wilks, successful February.

Protopappas claims she was terminated aft Wilks' daughter, Sarai, asked her to explicate 'why the French banned the hijab,' sparking a treatment of the country's prohibition of caput scarfs successful nationalist schools.

The teacher says her comments during the speech were deemed 'Islamophobic.'

'The accusation was that I was not DEI enough,' said Protopappas, the multi-lingual kid of Vietnamese parents, successful a portion penned by her erstwhile pupil for The Free Press.

'Ironically, since I was fired, teaching French astatine Spence appears to beryllium a achromatic privilege.'

The prestigious schoolhouse adjacent to Central Park boasts Oscar victor Paltrow and the Emmy Award victor Kerry Washington among its alumni.

It's been cited arsenic 1 of the inspirations for the deed amusement Gossip Girl, centered connected the adventures of upper-class students successful Manhattan, with immoderate filming for the amusement taking spot extracurricular its gathering connected East 91st Street.    

Spence declares connected its website that 'the world travel is simply a spirited escapade grounded successful enquiry and a tendency to delve deeper and prosecute situation and complexity.'

That thought proved excessively overmuch for the caput of school's girl successful her French class, according to a suit filed by Protopappas.

She claims she gave a consecutive reply to question astir hijabs successful May of past year, pointing retired that the prohibition applied to France's nationalist schools and is successful enactment with the the country's strict separation of religion and state.

When she invited her students to sermon the pros and cons of the ban, the caput of school's girl 'unexpectedly burst retired successful choler and displayed an uncharacteristically affectional and intensely idiosyncratic reaction,' according to the lawsuit.

Wilks railed astatine however 'unfair the French instrumentality was to her person from her erstwhile schoolhouse connected the West Coast who wore the hijab.'

The pursuing day, Sarai 'expressed adjacent much anger, arsenic if she had been inflamed,' the suit claims.

'Her classmates were embarrassed and confused by what seemed wholly retired of the mean and blown retired of proportion,' it adds.

The disquieted teacher recovered herself stonewalled by colleagues erstwhile she sought assistance for the girl, earlier being hauled successful for a gathering with schoolhouse director, who told her that 'some students' had recovered her remarks 'Islamophobic.'

'Overnight, I felt demonized, discredited, disqualified, and delegitimized,' Protopappas told The Free Press.

'It was Orwellian.'

In February, she was fired aft being told that her teaching was 'inequitable, confused students, and prevented them from speaking successful class,' and that it 'did not conscionable Spence's standards and expectations.'

The elite schoolhouse has repeatedly riled parents implicit its progressive stances nether erstwhile caput of schoolhouse Brodie Brizendine.

In 2020, billionaire hedge money manager John Paulson threatened to halt donating to the schoolhouse due to the fact that of 'anti-white indoctrination' successful the program being taught to his 2 daughters.

The pursuing year, committee subordinate Gabriela Baron penned an excoriating unfastened missive aft her girl was among the eighth people pupils forced to beryllium done an occurrence of Ziwe Fumudoh's Showtime comedy, Ziwe, which she claimed 'exemplifies hatred code against achromatic women.'

'Had a akin video been shown making amusive of ANY OTHER radical group, Spence, its faculty, the Board and the full assemblage would beryllium whipped into a frenzy,' she wrote. 'Racism is racism.'

And broadcaster Megyn Kelly was among the parents who pulled their daughters retired due to the fact that of 'growing far-left indoctrination.'

'This is simply a spot we've loved - breaks my bosom they're doing this,' she posted connected X, formerly Twitter.

Wilks succeeded Brizendine successful July 2022, earning a wage of $381,500, and sat successful connected the gathering successful which Protopappas was fired.

The erstwhile manager of diverseness astatine Friends School of Baltimore told her caller students to 'love learning truthful much, to question it everywhere, adjacent among those who annoy and disagree with you,' astatine their graduation past year.

Protopappas' dismissal has appalled erstwhile students of their beloved 'Madame Proto,' who they thanked for organizing schoolhouse trips to China and Japan, coaching the statement team, and establishing a connection and civilization institute.

'I can't retrieve different teacher I've ever had astatine the precocious schoolhouse level that wanted maine to beryllium truthful alert and truthful well-rounded connected issues,' Madeleine Singer told The Free Press. 'Not conscionable explaining the facts astatine look value, but asking america why.'

'Her termination is not conscionable a nonaccomplishment of an outstanding pedagogue but a setback for the values of captious reasoning and respectful dialog that she truthful passionately promoted,' added Sarah Rose Shannon.

Now, the beloved teacher fears she has been blacklisted by the wide world elite aft applying to 15 'sister' schools, without securing a azygous interview.

'I was simply trying to find different occupation and not disturbance immoderate contention oregon sue, but since strangely each doors abruptly closed, I had nary different prime but to commencement this process,' she said.

'My fiscal concern is perfectly disastrous. I person thing astatine all, and I started drafting from my retirement, which of people is simply a catastrophe excessively since I cannot lend to it anymore, and it is not much. 

'I honestly adjacent person to interest astir food, and paying my recognition paper indebtedness that is ballooning, truthful I whitethorn person to state bankruptcy.'

But she said it is not conscionable her that has been betrayed by the schoolhouse she loves.

'I person done thing but service this school,' she said. 

'I ne'er thought that I would wage specified a precocious terms for practicing and teaching the accomplishment of escaped and liable look and independency of caput astatine a schoolhouse that I picked for its open-mindedness 25 years ago.

'It's astir the students. Spence is not honoring the dependable of the students,' she added.

'The teaching assemblage is nether attack. Independence of caput seems little and little safe.

'How are we going to person a ideology if we don't thatch that skill?'