School responds to rumours the ‘Phillies Karen’ has been fired after viral baseball video

Everyone is saying she’s lost her job

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Rumours are circling social media that the viral “Phillies Karen” who snatched a baseball from a child has been fired from her job, and the school where she was thought to work has responded.

The video went viral over the weekend, which shows a dad picking up a home run ball that had been batted into the left stands at a Philadelphia Phillies vs Miami Marlins game and giving it to his son Lincoln for his 10th birthday.

An angry woman who has been nicknamed the “Phillies Karen” then marches over and demands that he give the ball to her, because she picked it up first. In the end, the dad grabs the ball from his son and gives it to her to shut her up.

Everyone is now trying to identify the woman, but has she really been fired? Here’s what’s going on.

Has the ‘Phillies Karen’ from that viral baseball video really been fired from her job?

No, the “Phillies Karen” hasn’t been fired. In fact, nobody actually knows who the woman even is. The rumours all started when a woman called Leslie-Ann Kravitz was falsely identified as the lady in the video. A viral social media post then wrongly claimed she is a teacher for Hammonton Public Schools in New Jersey.

“BREAKING: The ‘Phillies Karen’ has been identified and fired from her job. She was a school administrator in New Jersey school district and students have been flooding her Facebook page with hateful messages, and she is not welcome to return to her position,” it said.

The school has released a statement confirming she doesn’t work there

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The Hammonton School District has now released a statement confirming the woman in the video doesn’t work for them, writing: “The woman identified on social media as Philly’s Karen is not and has never been an employee of the Hammonton Public Schools social media and news reports indicating that she is are incorrect.”

They jokingly added: “Anyone who works for our school district, attended as a student who lives in our community would obviously have caught the ball bare handed in the first place avoiding this entire situation.”