OSKALOOSA, Iowa ( KCCI ) -- An Oskaloosa High School art teacher is suing the school district, claiming it violated his constitutional right to free speech when the school board voted to fire him over a post he made in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

The Oskaloosa School Board voted to terminate art teacher Matthew Kargol's contract following a closed session meeting on Wednesday.

On Thursday morning, Kargol filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. He is suing the school district and district superintendent Michael Fisher.

The lawsuit claims that a social media post Kargol made in the hours after conservative activist Charlie Kirk's shooting death on Sept. 10 was "rhetorical hyperbole" and nothing about the post connected his words to h

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