Oklahoma revokes license of teacher who gave class QR code to Brooklyn library in book-ban protest

its very telling that they want children to not only not have access to these materials, but not know they they are be prevented from seeing those materials.

kind of horrifying... very weird ,cult-like behavior from conservatives.

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.

Shout out to the Austin Public Library (and Austin as a whole) for continuously telling the Texas legislature to go fuck itself.

https://austin.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1107633742_aplbeanstackchallenges/2151249439_banned_camp_september_2022

It's so dystopian that teachers lose their jobs for encouraging children to read and that "free speech" advocates in state government are literally censoring books, the very thing that the first amendment is designed to stop governments doing.

Thank you, Summer Boismier, for standing up for what is right and being a true patriot.

Teacher will eventually get a fat, taxpayer-funded lawsuit award. The republicans are such backwards, self-hating, broken people.

How hard would it be for another state, that isn't so dedicated to shooting its own foot, reinstate/award them a teaching license as a gesture?

PraegerU content? Totally fine.

Books kids actually want to read? Verboten.

More nazi shit. . .

An attorney for Boismier, who now works at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City

I am assuming and hoping they are talking about the teacher getting a job there. That's fucking awesome if so

How regressive and backwards and detrimental to humanity you have to be to get mad at a teacher for distributing educational material.

Do you think its a feedback loop that states with the worst test scores make the worst decisions about education?

Walters said at Thursday’s meeting that Boismier violated rules that prohibit instruction on topics related to race and gender. He told reporters that she “broke the law.”

Oh? I didn't realize providing a link to an online resource was considered teaching or had anything to do with race or gender. 🤔

Where do I buy that shirt? It's awesome!

Streisand effect go!

Does anyone have that qr code ?

Hopefully more teachers engage in this sort of activism: put out QR code stickers on the school walls, in the shape of business cards laying around in public areas, etc

I mean, the solution is pretty easy: just stop teaching children to read. See? Problem solved.

That'd be like firing the college professor who tells the students they can find the PDF for free online.

Like, politics of book banning aside, if you support this, you're a fuckin knob.

I'm not a lawyer so could someone explain to me how laws like this don't immediately fail a prior restraint test?

they should revoke the license of the board and ban them from getting anywhere within 500m of an educational institution

Is there a list of libraries who offer a digital library card? (Forgot what's our called I think it of state library card)

Badlahoma things. What to expect from a state that extolled the virtues of oil industry for primary school children but forbids teaching about climate change?

Hey! They're trying to learn for free! Get'm!

That's fine. Oklahoma totally does not have a shortage of teachers or anything. /s

I've given up on anything truly positive happening in this timeline. We live in a world where "evil" has long ago won, we're just continually acting surprised at finding out what we already know.

No hope. No future. Unless you're wealthy/powerful, welcome to the new gilded age where a human life is at its absolute lowest value in all of history.

We can fight as much as we want but we can never win.

She got a go fund me for moving expenses?

thought experiment:

if everyone in oklahoma ceased to exist, would the world be a better place?

Good maybe they can teach in a non third world shit hole state now

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So the banned book is available in the public library? Some ban that is.