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An Ohio 'school principal of the year' was suspended after sending staff members a controversial message following Donald Trump's election victory last week. Monica Asher, 43, the principal of Olentangy Orange High School, is the subject of controversy over a newsletter she sent to staffers of the school where she discussed the results of the presidential election. 'I can't write a message that pretends like the election didn't happen; especially when so many of you are struggling with how to move forward,' she wrote on Monday.

An Olentangy Local School District employee of 13 years was forced to resign for comments she made linking the coronavirus to China and the country's subsequent profiting from personal protective equipment, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week. The incident in April wasn't the only time Antoinette Evans, a 68-year-old study hall aide from Delaware County, has been disciplined for disruptive speech by the district, the fifth-largest in Ohio. The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Columbus alleges that the district and three administrators at Olentangy Liberty High School, where Evans worked, "fabricated from Evans' innocent words...