MAGA superintendent who had ZERO qualifications and was hired despite objections from his own daughter reveals the real reason he was fired from $245,000 job

A Virginia superintendent is suing the school board that fired him, claiming he was kicked out of his job for promoting Christianity in his spare time.

Mark Taylor was hired by Spotsylvania County in September 2022 despite having no background in education and anger over social media posts that were labeled racist and homophobic.

The board referred to these posts when it fired him in January this year, but Taylor claims the real reason was his support of child star turned evangelical activist Kirk Cameron and his campaign against “woke” books in schools.

The Growing Pains actor was the star attraction at a book fair Taylor sponsored on school grounds to promote Christian books for children that “reinforce Bible-based, fundamental values.”

“This is primarily a First Amendment retaliation case,” Taylor’s attorney Thomas Strelka told the newspaper Independent. “America’s public school employees may be subject to unconstitutional retaliation due to the overburdened politicized environment.”

Actor turned evangelist and writer Kirk Cameron was the star attraction at a Christian book fair paid for by Taylor at a school under his jurisdiction

Taylor pledged to create an environment of “inclusion and high performance” when he was hired by the board for the $245,000 job, despite opposition from opponents, including his own estranged daughter.

“I never in a million years really thought they would actually consider my dad as a superintendent,” said Jael Taylor, who was homeschooled by her father.

‘For many years there was very little to do with any kind of learning from the textbooks. And to this day I still feel like there are a lot of holes in my education.”

Taylor, a former county executive, blamed hackers for posts attacking white people for supporting Coca Cola and ruthlessly mocking LGBTQ people before the board appointed him in a 4-3 vote.

The new superintendent pulled 14 “sexually explicit” books from shelves, including two by respected black author Toni Morrison, as concerns about the contents of school libraries were pushed to the front lines of the country’s culture wars.

Cameron helped lead this campaign, which accused Scholastic – the world’s largest publisher of children’s books – of flooding schools with “pornographic” and “sexually explicit” material.

“We all grew up with Scholastic, everyone, as the publisher of these great books, and Clifford the Big Red Dog and Stuart Little and James and The Giant Peach and all the fun little crossword puzzles,” Cameron told the Christian Broadcasting Network in April. .

“Well, their book fairs are now filled with the kind of progressive, socialist-Marxist material that undermines God, family and country.”

Taylor pledged to create an environment of “inclusion and high performance” when he was hired by the board for the $245,000 job in September 2022

But his critics were outraged by his unfriendly social media posts

Cameron, pictured with Dudley Moore, was a child star of the 1980s and earned two Golden Globe nominations for his work as Mike Seaver in the ABC sitcom Growing Pains

He has since become one of the leading campaigners against ‘obscene’ books in schools

Weeks before he was fired, Taylor rented a space at one of the county’s schools to host an exhibit by Brave Books, which claims to “empower your kids against woke culture.”

The event was organized by SkyTree Book Fairs, which promotes a “school choice alternative to the sexually explicit content distributed at Scholastic’s book fairs.”

But Taylor claims the board was outraged by the publicity attracted by Cameron, who was there to promote “the need to distribute Christian literature,” according to the lawsuit.

“The theme of the book fair was to showcase literature endorsed by conservative Christian authors and critics,” the book claims.

“The books available at the book fair were marketed by Mr. Taylor as an alternative to literature that Mr. Taylor and other conservative Christian-minded individuals considered obscene based on their religious beliefs.”

The following month, Taylor was placed on administrative leave “without warning.”

“This letter is to inform you that the Spotsylvania County School Board believes there is sufficient cause to terminate your employment with Spotsylvania County Public Schools for good cause,” the board told him.

In March of this year, his dismissal was upheld, with the board alleging that he “hired several unqualified and unqualified employees in violation of state law and school department policy, and that he improperly disposed of school property.”

It also warned potential employers that “numerous documented offensive and inappropriate social media posts on various social media platforms may call into question his ability to serve as a school superintendent in any school system in the Commonwealth of Virginia.”

Taylor’s LinkedIn profile shows he has not yet found another job, and he claims the “fabricated” explanation for his dismissal was concocted to cover up the board’s “retaliation” for his high-profile work with Cameron.

The board “allows members of the public to reserve and use school property for events such as book fairs,” he claims, and he acted “as a private citizen and never used his position as superintendent to organize the book fair.”

Reports at the time indicated that Taylor’s contract included a provision guaranteeing more than three years of pay even if he was fired.

But he is suing for lost wages, compensatory and punitive damages, claiming he has suffered and will continue to suffer “emotional distress and other significant financial and personal harm as a result of the Board of Directors’ retaliatory actions.”

Children’s book publisher Scholastic, the world’s largest, is under fire from campaigners for its ‘woke’ titles and ‘pornographic’ content

The animosity in the heart of the school board led to member Lisa Phelps, left, accusing fellow member Nicole Cole of assault and battery earlier this year.

The board, which has not commented on the claim, voted unanimously to fire Taylor and hired a replacement

But the party remains riven by personal animosity, with one member accused of assault and battery against another in July this year.

Nicole Cole was accused in court of slamming a door on fellow board member Lisa Phelps during a May 20 meeting and causing her to trip.

Taylor was in court supporting Phelps, and board member Carol Medawar supported Cole, claiming she decided to record the meeting when Phelps “started yelling and screaming and calling me evil.”

Judge Gene Woolard dismissed the case in Spotsylvania General District Court, admonishing the board for its conduct.

“Chaos is a good word,” he noted.