A Michigan girl, who was beforehand named Trainer of the Month, stated she misplaced her instructing job at a highschool in February after officers grew to become conscious she’s additionally a rapper. In accordance with WXYZ, Domonique Brown, who goes by the stage title Drippin’ Honey, was a historical past trainer at Taylor Preparatory Excessive College.
Brown, an educator for seven years, had been instructing at the highschool since August. However the trainer/rapper stated she was finally terminated after one in all her music movies was seen by a mother or father.
“The primary assembly that I had with, just like the principal and the dean, they’d instructed me that the mother or father wished to remain nameless and he or she felt as if she didn’t like my rap profession and that I used to be a foul affect on the youngsters as a result of I rap,” Brown recalled.
Brown stated college officers gave her an ultimatum to take down all her content material or danger shedding her job. “My thoughts and my coronary heart had been telling me two issues. I couldn’t see myself, like, giving up my different ardour simply because someone didn’t prefer it and so they say, ‘Erase all of your content material.’ That was the ultimatum. Erase all of your content material. I used to be like, ‘Respectfully, I can’t try this,’” she stated.
And although Brown additionally admitted that her songs have profane lyrics, she stated that has not had any detrimental affect on Taylor Prep and the way she has impressed her college students and neighborhood.
“The conferences was like so one-sided the place they solely instructed me what someone didn’t like. They didn’t inform me, as if, ‘You probably did this fallacious. You probably did that fallacious’ … that’s why I additionally [said] on my behalf, ‘Nicely ship me what am I doing fallacious in writing,’” she instructed WXYZ in response to being requested if the issue stemmed from her rap profession or lyrics.
A mother or father who spoke with the information outlet additionally registered her disappointment with Brown shedding her job. She stated the educator had a optimistic affect on their kids. Brown’s February termination got here after she received Trainer of the Month in December.
“As a mother or father, we lengthy for academics who help our youngsters and who encourage them, and he or she was a type of academics. So actually disenchanted,” Christina Lynn Lackley-Bah, who has watched Brown’s movies, stated.
Lackley-Bah additionally stated that Brown’s movies are the identical as different rap movies that minors can watch on social media. “For me, it doesn’t matter what you do exterior of the schooling construction. Like, as soon as you permit that specific constructing and also you go on with life, you do no matter you do,” she added.
Brown touched on how she has missed her college students and her job. “These children have their very own objectives, their very own aspirations. I’m simply attempting to see how I will help them,” she stated.
Responding to her firing in an announcement, a spokesperson with Nationwide Heritage Academies stated, “Whereas scholar and worker privateness rights restrict the main points I can share, what I can say is that we’re conscious of the alleged claims by a former trainer.”
The spokesperson added: “Scholar well-being stays on the forefront of the whole lot we do, and we’ll proceed fostering a distraction-free instructing and studying atmosphere targeted on scholar success.”
Brown stated she has since gotten in contact with an legal professional for recommendation regarding her termination. On her final day at work, Brown shot a music video by which her college students made cameo appearances. The track, titled Drippin’ 101, has been considered over 30,000 instances on YouTube.
