The state’s teachers’ union said in a statement it would stand by the state’s public school teachers who “teach the truth.”
“This is what it’s like to live and teach in a state more concerned with limiting students’ view of the world than making sure the schools they arrive at every day are held together by more than their teachers’ own pocketbooks,” Nicole Hill, a spokesperson for the Texas American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement. “Texas educators, however, will continue to do what they have always done: teach the truth. Our union will be by their side, defending their rights to do so.
The teacher, who wasn’t identified, was ousted last week, according to CBS affiliate KFDM, which firstthe story. The district the station it hadn’t approved of the graphic novel version of the book. Public-school advocates say traditional schools are in the state’s cross hairs following a new Republican-backed law that would have required book vendors to rate texts provided to public schools based on their sexual explicitness. The law also prohibited libraries from purchasing or having books with “sexually explicit material,” which is defined as material “that described, depicted, or portrayed sexual conduct in a way that was patently offensive.
Of last year’s challenges, “58% targeted books and materials in school libraries, classroom libraries or school curricula; 41% of book challenges targeted materials in public libraries,” the ALA said in its March report.
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