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Posted on AllSides May 18, 2026

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The Supreme Court said Monday it will not consider whether a suburban Chicago teacher was rightfully fired over inflammatory Facebook posts in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.

Jeanne Hedgepeth was a teacher at Palatine High School in Illinois for 20 years. But while on summer vacation in Florida, she shared incendiary posts about protests following Floyd's death in Minneapolis...

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