Massachusetts High School Football Coach Fired for Objecting to Black Lives Matter Curriculum
A Massachusetts high school football coach has recently filed a lawsuit claiming that he was fired because of his objections to his seventh-grade daughter’s school’s “politically charged curriculum.”
The New Boston Post provides the blow-by-blow:
A high school football coach fired after raising objections to pro-Black Lives Matter material in his daughter’s seventh-grade history class has sued school officials in Dedham, claiming they violated his First Amendment right to free speech. Dave Flynn, who had served as head football coach at Dedham High School since 2011, was informed he would not be reappointed as coach on January 20, about three months after he raised objections about the class, the Post reported.
For its part, the school district explained its firing of the coach in a memo to all “football families” issued on the same day as the firing:
We met with Mr. Flynn today because he has expressed significant philosophical differences with the direction, goals and values of this school district.
And, said the district, those “philosophical differences” caused it to seek “different leadership for the program at this time.”
