Ye’s Donda Academy sued in bombshell lawsuit – including children ‘fed just one meal of sushi a day’

Kanye West’s Donda Academy is being sued by two former teachers in a packed wrongful termination lawsuit, with the teachers making a series of disturbing allegations about what went on inside the secret school.

Court documents obtained by DailyMail.com detail the allegations made by Cecilia Hailey and her daughter Chekarey Byers, who claim to have witnessed children at the academy being fed just one meal of sushi a day while campus staff reported numerous troubling health and safety issues. violated safety regulations.

They claim they were discriminated against based on their race, had their wages illegally withheld, and were expelled from school in retaliation for reporting code violations.

Among the bizarre and disturbing allegations leveled against the school are that all color, including art, was banned from classrooms, everyone was forced to wear all black from head to toe, and classes were banned on the second floor because West was “afraid of trap.”

The controversial Grammy Award-winning artist opened California’s $15,000-a-year academy in 2021, but he now faces more than $1 million in damages in addition to the school and three of its directors.

Shortly after taking a job as a fifth-grade teacher in January 2023, Byers claimed she began to notice numerous disturbing rules and practices within the school, including rampant bullying and a lack of safety measures in the high-profile academy.

After raising concerns about repeated health and safety violations and illegal teaching practices at school principal Moira Love, the lawsuit states that “no action has been taken” to resolve the issues.

In addition to only having sushi for one meal a day, students were not allowed to bring any outside food or drink onto campus.

“It was common knowledge that West spent $10,000 a week on sushi,” the lawsuit alleges.

Students were reportedly forbidden from “crossword puzzles” or “coloring pictures,” while West would not let schoolchildren go outside during the day, even for lunch or break.

The rapper would also be banned from all classes on the second floor of the academy because “he was reportedly afraid of stairs,” the lawsuit said.

According to previous reports, parents at the school were required to sign confidentiality agreements to enroll their children in the academy.

In October, parents at the school rioted after hearing that Donda Academy would close its doors amid the collapse of West’s empire after a series of anti-Semitic outbursts, leaving the school open.

Earlier reports indicated that the exclusive Christian school would close its doors, but the secret academy had moved locations to Simi Valley.

Among the bizarre allegations also made in the court filings are that West “didn’t want children to use forks or cutlery,” that he required cups and bowls to be exclusively gray, and that he banned any color in classrooms or artwork hanging on the walls.

The Yeezy fashion mogul also reportedly “doesn’t like jewellery,” which led him to ban teachers and children from wearing jewellery, while chairs were also banned at the academy for forcing children to sit or stand on foam cushions.

The former teachers claim that a range of health and safety codes have also been repeatedly violated at the school, including academy doors that were locked from the outside, allegedly posing a fire hazard.

Byers and Hailey, who say they were the only two black female teachers at the school, are seeking wrongful termination after allegedly facing racial discrimination.

This included being subjected to “stereotyping about African-American women as confrontational” after raising concerns about the school’s practices.

When Hailey threatened to take her complaints directly to West, “she was threatened not to contact him,” the lawsuit said.

Both women claim to have been fired from the academy parking lot on March 3, 2023, “for no reason.” Dailymail.com was told that the plaintiffs are now seeking damages in excess of $1 million.

Among several issues raised in the lawsuit included that teachers were not trained in basic life support, no nursing staff were employed on campus, while a lack of security allowed students to be picked up from campus by strangers without any login procedure. .

Rampant bullying and assaults often took place in the school, according to the lawsuit, because there were no disciplinary procedures to deal with them.

In addition, the lawsuit bizarrely alleges that there were no cleaning staff at the academy because West “didn’t believe in cleaning products containing chemicals, so teachers were only allowed to clean with acidic water and microfiber cloths.”

The rapper reportedly banned Nike and Adidas from being worn on campus because he insisted everyone only wear their designer clothes in black “from head to toe.”

“Kanye West is clearly just as bad at running a school as he is at managing his own personal and professional life, allowing for an unsafe and illegal school environment for students that the accusers also discriminated against based on their race,” said the attorney for the couple, Ron Zambrano. .

“These egregious violations at Donda Academy are just another example of West’s unusual behavior, and our clients simply won’t stand for it, regardless of his celebrity status.

“Kanye needs to realize that his genius is in making music, not school administration.”

Of the lawsuit, Byers said, “I am extremely sad about all of this. It has been such an honor and privilege to work for Kanye West at Donda Academy.

“I’m a huge Kanye fan. His first album was the first one I ever bought. I still enjoy his music and I will never deny his talent, but while his vision for the school sounds great on paper, it’s just pure chaos and mutiny.

“It’s like a psychiatric hospital run by the patients.”

The scandal-stricken rapper has faced numerous issues with his private Christian school since the institution opened in 2021.

After the rapper’s anti-Semitic outbursts made headlines and led to the collapse of his music, fashion and real estate empire, Jewish staffers from Donda Academy quit en masse.

Poet Malik Yusef, who has previously identified himself as an “administrator” at the school, told the New York Post in November how “staff members of the Jewish faith had been lost” in the weeks after the artist fell into several discriminatory diatribes.

Reports at the time indicated that the school no longer had enough teachers to function.