CNN says she was not fired but quit, and was not pursuing further employment as a teacher. Describing that as "out a job" isnt't simple slant.
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Sterilization threats. Death threats. Further threats of reprisal from state republican officials. But sure, the sources wording not mentioning someone resigned and a reader's possible inferring it as a firing... wait a minute.
"After meeting with administrators to discuss her suspension, Boismier concluded that she wouldn’t be able to return to her job if she wasn’t willing to refrain from doing things like helping her students get library cards in the future. She resigned after nine years on the job."
So, the source actually mentioned the teacher resigned. Well, nevermind. You have hit upon the REAL crime here, that's for sure.
Just another Wednesday.
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You know as well as I do that lying in the top of a story and mentioning the truth at the bottom is exactly as bad as not including the truth at all. Burying the lead isn't moral reporting standards. But "Teacher Resigns Because the School Doesn't Want to Endorse Left-Wing Activism" isn't quite the same headline.
Also, the source they have about all the threats she's received is The Daily Beast, just taking her word for it. The only "threat" they were willing to post verbatim is:
I'm sure you can tell what's wrong with this picture, but in case you can't, that's not actually a threat. That's a left winger being facetious.
Helping students use the library is left-wing activism?
According to republicans... yes, most definitely. Maybe republicans need to write more books instead of banning them.
Well, better than reprinting actual hate speech I suppose. And minus the second 2 sentences, it is representative the kind of response to LGBT support I've seen online. And as far as burying the lead, I've stopped having much sympathy for joe average refusing to read more than a headline or a single paragraph. Again, just failing to see this as the biggest real issue here.
If the library has books that try to portray anyone who isn't a white straight Christian man as an actual human being, yes. Burn it all down!
When the point is to take an end run around the school system not carrying certain books for reasons that ultimately amount to conservative parents not being terribly OK with kids reading graphic novels that contain LGBTQ sex scenes (or likely any other sex scenes) by pointing them to a library in another state that will provide them, maybe? I mean, that's the closest it gets.
I'm still not at all sure how that would violate HB 1775, though. That her potentially violating HB 1775 is a thing that was mentioned in in the article is what makes me curious if there's some other conduct that's being ignored or minimized to make it seem like it's all about the poster because that's the best look for her.
To be clear, this is HB 1775:
Why are you inventing potential scenarios in justification for this? Where has any information from any source been provided that this was an attempt at an "end run" about "LGBTQ sex scenes"?
Some people thought I was exaggerating when I said that Trump's followers literally view him as God-Emperor.
Apparently MyPillow Wierdo Mike Liddell had a hell of a drug problem back in the day.
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Though honestly I'm not convinced he's off the drugs. He acts like he's still totally cranked.
And now something actually just funny instead of kind of terrifying, German far right party handing out bags of dicks.
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Iowa teen who killed rapist sentenced, ordered to pay $150K
A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced Tuesday in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man’s family.
The number one book being removed from schools is Gender Queer (if you follow the link the teacher was distributing, they link the ALAs top ten list of challenged books with this one at the top.) It has illustrations of a couple using a strap-on to "have your cock in my mouth". Number two is Lawn Boy, which describes 10 year olds giving blow jobs. Number 3 is All Boys Aren't Blue, which has highly explicit descriptions of gay blow jobs.
You might have noticed a pattern here.
An Oklahoma teacher says she resigned over a state law requiring teachers to censor books in classroom libraries | CNN
An Oklahoma teacher says she has resigned from her position as an English teacher with Norman Public Schools following controversy over the display of, and student access to, more than 500 books in her classroom library.
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"Me commenting on the climate of censorship and the chilling implications of a rejection of free speech and free association -- me commenting on that is absolutely a political choice. I stand by that," she told CNN, adding that she believes classrooms are political spaces.
"I want to be clear, too; there's a difference between political and partisan," she said. "So I take umbrage and issue with assertions that educators should not bring their politics into the classroom."
She added that the new law is designed as a trap that makes it impossible for teachers to do their jobs.
"It's intentionally designed to stifle the conversations that we need to be having in the classroom, around systemic inequality, around privilege," she said. "It's my desire and the top objective that I have as an educator, to make my classroom as inclusive as possible."
Boismier said she doesn't think she will apply to work at a different school district because there isn't a school in the state that would work with her fundamental beliefs.
In her own words, she doesn't think she can work for any school district because they would not work with her fundamental belief that classrooms are political spaces.
"It's a lie, but it's a lie that illustrates a deeper truth." Sure, go for it. Journalism is dead.
It didn't. There were complaints, they looked into it, told her to come back to work, and she quit.
It was expressly an end run around certain books being kept from school libraries in that district. That's literally the reason she put up a poster telling kids how to get a library card in another state from a site that draws attention to what books are commonly barred from school library shelves.
The whole incident started with a Karen of a mom named Laney Dicksion making a complaint. Her kid hadn't scanned the QR code, but she did and saw a reading event for the #1 book on the site's banned book list, "Gender Queer." Mom's reaction to "Gender Queer" in particular is what caused her complaint, and that complaint is what set all of it in motion. So yes, a teacher trying an end run around a school district banning books upset a mom over "queer" sex scenes in one such book displayed prominently on the site.
"Gender Queer" is a graphic novel about an AFAB person struggling with their gender identity, and it contains sex scenes, which I described as "LGBTQ" because without context I am unsure how either person in the scene identifies at that point in the book - the one pointed out in some articles involves our AFAB protagonist wearing a strapon to have sex with their AFAB partner. I'm pretty sure we can all agree that's not a straight sex scene, but without knowing what they identify as I'm unsure if calling it a lesbian sex scene is accurate, or if I should merely dub it "queer" and move on.
Here's the mom in question that set it all in motion:
Because at least some of the people involved at the district have suggested she may have violated HB 1775, but I cannot see how she might have done so given the conduct described is the extent of it?