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Teacher files lawsuit for losing job after denying school district access to Facebook

A Michigan teacher’s aide is fighting a legal battle with the Lewis Cass Intermediate School District for removing her from her position after refusing to give the district access to her Facebook page, the Huffington Post reports. Kimberly Hester was a teacher’s aide at Frank Squires Elementary School in Cassopolis, Mich. last April when she jokingly posted a photo of a coworker to her personal Facebook page. The picture shows a pair of shoes and pants around the ankles [1], WSBT-TV reports.

“It was very mild, no pornography,” Hester told the station.

A parent who was Facebook friends with Hester, and thus could see her posts, notified the school about the image. A few days later, Lewis Cass ISD Superintendent Robert Colby asked her repeatedly for access to her Facebook. Each time, Hester refused…

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