This really seems extreme and a harbinger of what is to come: veteran (and tenured) high school teacher and baseball coach dismissed from school after he assigned a Ta-Nehisi Coates essay and poem about white privilege.https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/sullivan-county-teacher-facing-termination-at-school-board-meeting-tuesday-supporters-to-gather/ …
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Apart from The Atlantic essay, the only other accusation against the teacher was assigning this poem.https://twitter.com/saribethrose/status/1413606654055264256?s=20 …
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As local school board elections become dominated by people driven by or responding to a moral panic, expect more teachers to be fired for engaging in any sort of critical speech. What a disservice to their students.https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1412567106533605378?s=20 …
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Tomorrow, July 10, is the anniversary of the start of the Scopes trial, where a high school teacher was accused of teaching evolution, in violation of Tennessee state law. Almost 100 years later, here we are.https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-scopes-monkey-trial …
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This story of a teacher losing his job for assigning a poem is a month old. Had you heard about it before now? Meanwhile, a white supremacist getting kicked of a twitter is trending. Lots of free speech advocates defending him. Where do we direct our attention, our outrage?
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I mean, he did that pretty well himself
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shocking
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The profanity is an issue, to be sure, but for Pete's sake. It was published in the *Atlantic*! What, now we're not going to let kids read the newspapers? magazines in the mainstream media? Gimme a break.
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Profanity is not grounds for termination.
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