for criticizing school closures demands accountability as Dems admit mistakes

Yael Halon - 40m ago

Alongtime Levi Strauss & Co. executive who was forced out of the company for criticizing school closures during the COVID pandemic demanded accountability on Tuesday as high-profile Democrat leaders admit that the shutterings were a mistake – the same perspective that cost her her job and a $1 million severance package months earlier.

Jennifer Sey was "pushed out" of her high-profile job in February over her outspoken opposition to school closures and remote learning. Sey told Fox News that she chose to walk away from a $1 million severance package in order to avoid signing a non-disclosure agreement that would limit her ability to continue bringing attention to the issue.

"I was urged to stop repeatedly over the course of two years, and eventually it was decided there just was not a place for me at the company any longer," she said on "America Reports." "And I chose to leave on my own terms."

In the months that followed, Sey said she was "demonized" and labeled "a racist" and was even accused of being a member of the conspiracy group QAnon. 

But as the troubling consequences of school closures come into focus with the start of a new academic year, prominent Democrat leaders are now admitting that remote learning was a mistake. While the acknowledgment serves as vindication to Sey and so many others like her, she wonders who, if anyone, will be held accountable.