Oklahoma revokes license of teacher who gave class QR code to Brooklyn library in book-ban protest
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Oklahoma’s education board has revoked the license of a former teacher who drew national attention during surging book-ban efforts across the U.S. in 2022 when she covered part of her classroom bookshelf in red tape with the words “Books the state didn’t want you to read.”
The decision Thursday went against a judge who had advised the Oklahoma Board of Education not to revoke the license of Summer Boismier, who had also put in her high school classroom a QR code of the Brooklyn Public Library’s catalogue of banned books.
An attorney for Boismier, who now works at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City, told reporters after the board meeting that they would seek to overturn the decision.
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Chasing away your teachers is a great way to make sure your state stays at the bottom of every US state comparison table, so great job.
... is a great way make an uneducated population for the benefit of the next authoritarian ruler
Oklahoma imports it's high education labor from neighboring Nebraska and Texas, then keeps the locals ignorant and pliable for the cheap local labor
Kansas: "Am I a joke to you?"
Yes. Kansas is a joke
Hey, at least they were able to protect abortion access via direct ballot voting.
I'm wondering what percentage of high education labor is military veterans who utilized their GI bill to get a better education, Tinker AFB ain't small. Huge military populations for Texas too, and there's a history of dumping retirees out the gate and saying "good luck!".
Oklahoma University and OSU both have big out of state populations, too.
Chasing away public school teachers on our way to privatizing schools is a goal of theirs so yeah mission accomplished
Their education system doesn't care. They want 1 of 2 things. Easy to control and submissive teachers, or they want to completely tear down the system and build a private one.
... With authoritarian hierarchy and submissive teachers.
state funded religious indoctrination aka "private school vouchers."
Yep, it's a great way to get more gop voters, that's for sure