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.
Shout out to the Austin Public Library (and Austin as a whole) for continuously telling the Texas legislature to go fuck itself.
They realize with house prices there’s no magical white collar job Howard Cunningham can get that will provide enough
Does capitan underpants got banned?
Badlahoma things. What to expect from a state that extolled the virtues of oil industry for primary school children but forbids teaching about climate change?
Good maybe they can teach in a non third world shit hole state now
That’s cute and all but there are still people there who don’t actively believe in fascism, and don’t have the money/resource to gtfo. Their kids deserve a real education too.
The real answer is making Nazis afraid again.
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That’s fine. Oklahoma totally does not have a shortage of teachers or anything. /s
So the banned book is available in the public library? Some ban that is.
Brooklyn is in New York. Also, actual book bans are unconstitutional under the first amendment. What these laws do is prohibit state funded entities like public schools and public libraries in the state from having the books available. The books are still available in privately owned places.
NYPL doesn’t care what books are banned in Oklahoma schools.
Small detail, New York City has three public library Systems (New York, Queens, and Brooklyn). While all three have Banned Books events, BPL specifically (in conjunction with Boston Public Library, LA County Library, San Diego Library and Seattle Public Library) runs a service called Books Unbanned that is said to offer a full collection of Banned Books (I believe NYPL and QPL’s banned collections are curated/limited) to essentially any US resident (Many libraries have residency requirements although I believe NYPL and QPL have waived those [when I was kid you had to bring a piece of mail in NYC to get a card]).
Well, in the public library in NYC, not Oklahoma.
Except you lose your teaching license if you tell students that, soooo…
How regressive and backwards and detrimental to humanity you have to be to get mad at a teacher for distributing educational material.
Religious conservative levels
Streisand effect go!
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.
Brainwashing
Also its highly likely that all these children have access to the internet anyways and can access all of it and much more.
Right? This is some legitimate dystopian shit.
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.
Walters said at Thursday’s meeting that Boismier violated rules that prohibit instruction on topics related to race and gender. He told reporters that she “broke the law.”
Oh? I didn’t realize providing a link to an online resource was considered teaching or had anything to do with race or gender. 🤔
Hopefully more teachers engage in this sort of activism: put out QR code stickers on the school walls, in the shape of business cards laying around in public areas, etc
PraegerU content? Totally fine.
Books kids actually want to read? Verboten.
I dunno, this penis Prager guy seems pretty cool
Chasing away your teachers is a great way to make sure your state stays at the bottom of every US state comparison table, so great job.
Their education system doesn’t care. They want 1 of 2 things. Easy to control and submissive teachers, or they want to completely tear down the system and build a private one.
… With authoritarian hierarchy and submissive teachers.
Chasing away public school teachers on our way to privatizing schools is a goal of theirs so yeah mission accomplished
Oklahoma imports it’s high education labor from neighboring Nebraska and Texas, then keeps the locals ignorant and pliable for the cheap local labor
neighboring Nebraska
Kansas: “Am I a joke to you?”
Yes. Kansas is a joke
Hey, at least they were able to protect abortion access via direct ballot voting.
I’m wondering what percentage of high education labor is military veterans who utilized their GI bill to get a better education, Tinker AFB ain’t small. Huge military populations for Texas too, and there’s a history of dumping retirees out the gate and saying “good luck!”.
Oklahoma University and OSU both have big out of state populations, too.
… is a great way make an uneducated population for the benefit of the next authoritarian ruler
Yes. Failing the populace is not a side-effect, it’s the point.
What fun is it being the king of an unhappy, sickly, unemployable mob of peasants? Your dictatorship will not last a month.
Quite the contrary. An uneducated population is easier to fool and to control. And uneducated != unemployable.
The ditches don’t dig themselves! The hogs don’t clean their own mess. The stamping machine only severs an arm at a time, so get up there and run the stamper with your good arm, Billy!
Hatred and entitlement aren’t logical.
I’m not a lawyer so could someone explain to me how laws like this don’t immediately fail a prior restraint test?
Probably because they are an employee of the government, not a private publisher. (They’re also not a publisher at all.)
Does posting to a blog count as publishing? I don’t feel like old definitions of “private publisher” are as useful as they used to be. Public schools are such a quagmire of conflicting ideals on the best of days. Don’t put up a flier for an unapproved study club, but CocaCola logos everywhere…
I think it does, but that’s not what’s at issue here. She put it up as a poster in her classroom.
I wonder if she coulda kept her job if (instead of a poster in the classroom) she waited just outside the school grounds to hand fliers out to kids like the evangelicals do. Or would they have said something about her “representing the school” outside of work? I guess I wouldn’t be surprised either way.
Does anyone have that qr code ?
