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.

  • originalucifer
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    2902 months ago

    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.

    • @Nurse_Robot
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      1062 months ago

      Right? This is some legitimate dystopian shit.

      • @[email protected]
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        982 months ago

        It is called the bible belt and as a gay man that grew up there, let me tell you, it is some scary shit. Thanks to the people there still fighting the good fight.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      Also its highly likely that all these children have access to the internet anyways and can access all of it and much more.

      • @boogiebored
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        12 months ago

        How do they know it exists from their advertised and curated algorithm bubbles of proprietary app social media?