A Minnesota elementary school teacher says her district unlawfully punished her for a "private" Facebook post — declaring that "A family that is deported together stays together" — in what she blasts as a violation of her First Amendment rights.

Brooke Zahn, a fourth grade teacher at Jeffers Pond Elementary, filed a complaint last month in Minnesota District Court accusing the Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools district of wrongly suspending her over the deportation post.

Zahn argues that her freedom of speech was violated because her post was uploaded to a "private Facebook group" from her "own home outside work hours, using her maiden name instead of her professional name, from an account that expressly noted it represented only her own personal views," according to the complaint.

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