Florida substitute teacher fired over video DeSantis called ‘fake narrative’

A Florida substitute instructor has reportedly been fired for posting a video of empty bookshelves in a center college library, a video that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) known as a “pretend narrative” earlier this week.

Brian Covey, who was a substitute instructor at Mandarin Center College in Duval County, posted a video on Jan. 27 that confirmed aisles of empty bookshelves within the college’s library. The day earlier than, he had additionally tweeted, “They eliminated each single e-book from my kids’s school rooms.”

DeSantis mentioned at a press convention on Tuesday that the video Covey posted was a “pretend narrative” and “was not true.”

Covey mentioned that he was fired on Wednesday, almost three weeks after he posted the preliminary video, in accordance with First Coast Information.

In an announcement first supplied to First Coast Information, Duval County Public Faculties confirmed that Covey was fired in connection to his social media posts.

“In dialogue between the district and ESS relating to this particular person’s misrepresentation of the books obtainable to college students within the college’s library and the disruption this misrepresentation has brought about, it was decided that he had violated social media and cellphone insurance policies of his employer. Subsequently, ESS decided these coverage violations made it essential to half methods with this particular person,” the assertion learn.

ESS is a corporation that contracts substitute lecturers to the Duval County Public Faculties, in accordance with the web site.

DeSantis lately signed a invoice into regulation that required public college books in Florida to be age acceptable for college students, freed from pornographic materials and “suited” to the wants of the scholars, which has prompted college officers to evaluation books of their libraries.

The Hill has reached out to DeSantis’s workplace and Duval County Public Faculties for remark.

Covey posted a video responding to DeSantis’s “pretend narrative” feedback final week, displaying a number of empty e-book cabinets and saying the county had solely reviewed a small fraction of e-book titles.

Duval County Public Faculties responded to Covey’s posts, saying that the video Covey posted confirmed “lower than half the story” in a tweet. “Sure, these cabinets have been empty. However they have been in a room filled with books,” it added.