Sarah Sanders gets schooled by high school teacher over first amendment

Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders got failing marks from a high school teacher, who says the 38-year-old conservative doesn’t know the first thing about the First Amendment or Christian behavior.

The online scolding reportedly came from Arkansas educator Dana Deree, who taught at Sanders’ former high school. According to Newsweek, which documented Deree’s private tweets, the Navy veteran took exception to Sanders’ complaints that she and other Republicans with ties to the outgoing Trump administration were losing Twitter followers while Democrats were gaining new ones.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders talks to journalists outside the West Wing of the White House April 02, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/)

“You were a student at Little Rock Central High when I taught AP Government there, but you didn’t take the advanced class,” he tweeted Sunday.

Sanders, who had a notoriously loose relationship with facts while working in the White House, tweeted over the weekend, “I’ve lost 50k+ followers this week. The radical left and their big tech allies cannot marginalize, censor, or silence the American people. This is not China, this is United States of America, and we are a free country.”

She was commenting on a tweet from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is one of many Trump supporters who claim tech companies are discriminating against right-wingers based on ideology. Those calls from the right grew louder last week when Twitter and Facebook shut down President Trump’s accounts to prevent him from inciting further acts of violence like the deadly attack on the nation’s Capitol Wednesday.

According to Deree, had Sanders studied under him, she wouldn’t have sent that tweet.

“If you had, maybe you would better understand the First Amendment and the difference between limits on government and freedoms for private individuals,” Deree added.

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While the Constitution forbids the U.S. government from limiting free speech, it does not require companies to publish factually challenged political propaganda, which is common practice in communist countries.

Deree’s resume states he was a teacher for the Arkansas public school system from 1996 to 2001. Little Rock Central High School, which Sanders attended during that period, is one of the places listed on his Linked In page. That’s not the only place where he thinks Sanders could have learned a thing or two.

“I’ve taught Sunday School too,” he wrote to Sanders. “You didn’t learn those lessons either.”