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Caught in the culture wars, teachers are being forced from their jobs
A Florida teacher lost her job for hanging a Black Lives Matter flag over her classroom door and rewarding student activism. A Massachusetts teacher was fired for posting a video denouncing critical race theory. A teacher in Missouri got the ax for assigning a worksheet about privilege — and still another, in California, was fired for criticizing mask mandates on her Facebook page.
'Educators are afraid,’ says teacher attacked for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ unit
Book banning in public schools is, according to new reports, at an all-time high as right-wing groups and Republican-led legislatures target works that address race, racism, gender, sexuality and other issues they don’t want students to discuss in classrooms.
As Kansas Legislature meddles in public education, words from great uncle George resonate today
The Republican advance guard calls 2662 a “parents’ bill of rights and academic transparency act.” Who can argue with that, right? But wake up! Smoke’s being blown, and only winds of reason can sweep it clear.
Parents already have rights, and academic content is already transparent. The bill, however, would require an entire year’s lessons and materials be posted at a “portal,” a website accessible not just to parents but to the general public. Paranoid parents — or anyone at all — could flood it with complaints, making teachers’ lives even more miserable than they were during the pandemic.