Last year former Donda Academy teacher, Cecilia Hailey and two others, filed a lawsuit against Kanye West for discrimination and wrongful termination [click here if you missed that].
In a new interview Hailey claims Kanye wanted to teach third graders to march and shoot guns...
From TMZ
KANYE West planned to teach kids at his failed Christian private school how to shoot guns and march after his disturbing rants about Hilter and the Nazis, a whistleblower has claimed.
Ex-teacher Cecilia Hailey, who is suing the rapper along with former colleagues for wrongful termination, has revealed new details of her time at Donda Academy.
Speaking exclusively to The U.S. Sun in an on-camera interview, she laid bare what it was like behind the walls of the secretive school in Chatsworth, a suburban neighborhood in Los Angeles, in the months after Kanye's antisemitism scandal in November 2022.
Hailey, whose case has a trial date set for April next year, described the school as being more like a "zoo" and alleged any push-back on Kanye's wild demands fell on deaf ears.
"He did want the children to learn marching," Hailey claimed.
"He wanted all the children to be educated in how to carry a gun, how to shoot a gun.
"I'm like, 'Are you kidding me? I'm not having my third graders out learning how to shoot rifles, absolutely not.'
"It came up kinda early when I first got there, kinda wanting to know how I felt about the kids learning to march, and how I felt about the kids taking gun classes and rifle classes.
"And I'm thinking that is not gonna happen if I'm here, that's not acceptable, it's not necessary, and what does that have to do with education?
"Teaching these kids to march, to be honest with you I kind of got like Hitler vibes around that or real bizarre things."
Hailey branded Kanye "delusional," adding, "And I don't know what he's thinking. I don't know where he thinks children fit in this.
"We're not talking about adults here, we're talking about eight-year-olds, twelve-year-olds, 15-year-olds."
A second teacher involved in the lawsuit also alleged to The U.S. Sun that she was aware of a person Donda Academy was looking to hire who would teach tactical and military skills.
They claimed, "He was going to teach the kids how to survive in the wilderness, hunting, camping, and how to load and shoot firearms.”
There is no indication that children at the school ended up marching or completed rifle training or that families who had to sign NDAs were aware of the plans.
Hailey also alleges the school had a serious bullying issue.
She claims she witnessed students cowering under tables as physical fights broke out, and kids were not allowed to be disciplined.
"There was a lot of bullying," she said. "Kids were getting physical; they would fight, the bigger kids would fight the little kids.
"So you might have a fourth grader hitting on a kindergarten or a first grader. We had kids hiding under tables because they were afraid. It was mayhem, really.
"There were armed guards outside, but the kids were not safe inside."
Donda Ray Academy and Kanye West did not return multiple requests for comment regarding the new claims about gun training and marching or the other claims made by Hailey.
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