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.
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.
Its not over yet. I was raised in one of these places. My schooling was a joke. Then I discovered the internet, and all that brainwashing they tried to do in primary school faded pretty quickly.
These kids aren’t going to be that easy to lie to with the way the internet is. Some will fall for the propaganda but many will not.
Get back up.