WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A Palm Beach County teacher just won a $337,000 jury award in a lawsuit with the Palm Beach County School District after she was fired for allegedly sending “screaming” emails in all capital letters.

The settlement is the resolution in a long running dispute between the district and Paula Prudente, a 30-year teacher in the district who last taught at Spanish River High School in 2011. The asthmatic teacher allegedly complained when school administrators placed her in a dusty portable classroom that year, the New Times reports.

“They put a woman who they knew had a pulmonary condition in the most toxic place in the Palm Beach County School District,” Prudente’s attorney, Sid Garcia, told the news site. “They were doing everything they could to make Prudente quit or retire, which she didn’t want to do.”

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The following year, district officials changed her position to a secretary in the bus department, where she collected the top teacher salary of $71,745 while answering phones. District official finally fired Prudente in 2013 for alleged sending emails they described as “a bewildering set of vitriolic directives, awkward references to herself in third person, and head-turning claims,” according to a school document cited by the New Times.

“You are going to have to cease and desist your cafeteria style of … law and agreements cause … you are very wrongful in your misrepresentations … you are very deceitful …” Prudente said in a threatening three-minute voicemail to one of her co-workers in 2011, the Sun-Sentinel reported at the time.

Her attorney told a different story.

“They fired her for sending ‘screaming’ emails in all caps,” Garcia told the New Times. “It’s absurd to fire a teacher with more than 30 years of experience and many commendations for sending emails with a little too much punctuation.”

There also may have been another motivation.

“Prudente first made headlines for sending political emails to her coworkers during the 2008 presidential election,” the news site reports.

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“The teacher, and avid Republican, was critical of the future commander in chief, and she ignored warnings to quit politicking during work hours, which is against the rules.”

Prudente received a 10-day suspension for the political emails, but was didn’t lose her job.

The most recent firing, however, wasn’t right, a jury found, and awarded Predente $337,000 for lost wages and benefits, and damages – although the district has vowed to appeal the ruling, and Predente still wants her job back, the New Times reports.