'School principal of the year' is suspended over controversial Trump remarks

An Ohio 'school main of the year' was suspended aft sending unit members a arguable connection pursuing Donald Trump's predetermination triumph past week.

Monica Asher, 43, the main of Olentangy Orange High School, is the taxable of contention implicit a newsletter she sent to staffers of the schoolhouse wherever she discussed the results of the statesmanlike election.

'I can't constitute a connection that pretends similar the predetermination didn't happen; particularly erstwhile truthful galore of you are struggling with however to determination forward,' she wrote connected Monday.

'I cognize you are struggling with however to determination guardant with your students who are afraid, but besides however to determination guardant with colleagues that don't stock your views.'

'This week, I saw the pain, uncertainty and division,' she added. 'I person to beryllium honest, I americium not wholly definite however to archer you however to determination forward.'

The Lewis Center nonmigratory offered words of encouragement successful processing the incoming president's landslide triumph implicit Vice President Kamala Harris - contempt the information that Trump soundly won Delaware County.

In the message, she said the schoolhouse would proceed to beryllium a spot wherever 'showing compassion and respect to those astir america is simply a priority, wherever we admit the humanity, dignity and worthy successful each idiosyncratic we meet.'

Asher besides wildly compared the country's aboriginal to an approaching 'storm' that needs to beryllium met 'head-on', The Delaware Gazette reported.

But the words landed her successful blistery waters with the schoolhouse territory - and with the internet.

This past Wednesday, dozens of X users expressed their choler implicit the concern nether a station of the newsletter, which was shared by an relationship titled 'Crisis successful the Classroom'.

One irate spectator wrote: 'Her occupation is to beforehand acquisition done leadership, not to indoctrinate ideology. How astir separation of governmental ideology and state.' 

'What a narcissist,' different wrote. 'Absolute main quality syndrome here.'

'Good grief, wherefore bash I fishy that schoolhouse is covered with harmless abstraction stickers,' different added. 'Make the full schoolhouse harmless and occurrence her a**.'

Todd Meyer, the Olentangy Local School District Superintendent, released a district-wide connection to unit connected Thursday, informing them that Asher had been pulled from the gathering connected administrative leave, ABC 6 reported.

He claimed that the determination is simply a 'procedural measurement to support the integrity of immoderate territory investigation'. 

Meyer besides noted that Ellie Ellis, the existent adjunct main of the precocious school, would service arsenic the pb head arsenic the territory initiates their investigation, 10 WBNS reported.

'The champion interests of our students and unit stay our apical priority,' helium said. 'And we volition enactment to guarantee students, families and unit are not impacted further.' 

The Olentangy Local School District besides released a statement, noting that they were alert that the newsletter 'did not correspond the authoritative sentiment of the Olentangy Schools Board of Education'.

'We admit existent events tin beryllium arguable topics that aboveground successful our classrooms and buildings,' the connection added.

'The Board of Education expects each nonrecreational unit members to support precocious standards successful their moving relationships, and successful the show of their nonrecreational duties, to refrain from utilizing their presumption for partisan governmental purposes.' 

Olentangy territory parents person besides expressed their opinions connected the substance - galore of them feeling arsenic though authorities and acquisition should beryllium kept separate.

'A small spot shocked that we're benignant of sending our sentiment retired to others,' Allie Forsythe, a territory parent, told NBC 4. 'I deliberation everybody is benignant of successful a antithetic spot close not and antithetic feelings.' 

'Politics is politics. Education is antithetic than politics,' said Kyungho Kim, different territory parent.

But contempt Forsythe and Kim disagreeing with Asher's actions, they aren't definite that she should beryllium losing her occupation implicit it. 

'A speech decidedly needs to beryllium had,' Forsythe added.

'I deliberation 1 happening was precise extreme, I don't cognize if responding successful a precise utmost mode is the mode to spell arsenic well.' 

Asher was formally the main of different Ohio precocious schoolhouse successful Chagrin Falls earlier arriving astatine Olentangy Orange High School, which coincidently hosted Trump successful the school's gymnasium during 1 of his governmental rallies backmost successful 2018, ABC 6 reported.

In 2022, she was recognized for her hard enactment and dedication to her students - discussing however she was capable to basal beardown arsenic a beforehand enactment person during wide uncertain times surrounding the pandemic and governmental battles that were seeping into schools.

In August of that aforesaid year, a survey conducted by the National Association of Secondary School Principals discovered that astir 40 percent had plans to discontinue successful the adjacent 3 years, Education Week reported.

But Asher wasn't 1 of those people.

'No - successful lawsuit that was the question,' she told the outlet. 'This is precisely what I'm expected to beryllium doing.'

Just past year, Asher was chosen arsenic the Ohio main of the year.

She is besides presently the president of the Ohio Association of Secondary School Administrators.