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.
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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.
Brainwashing
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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.
... 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.
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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?"
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!".
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Chasing away public school teachers on our way to privatizing schools is a goal of theirs so yeah mission accomplished
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.
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Shout out to the Austin Public Library (and Austin as a whole) for continuously telling the Texas legislature to go fuck itself.
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Thank you, Summer Boismier, for standing up for what is right and being a true patriot.
PraegerU content? Totally fine.
Books kids actually want to read? Verboten.
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Teacher will eventually get a fat, taxpayer-funded lawsuit award. The republicans are such backwards, self-hating, broken people.
How hard would it be for another state, that isn't so dedicated to shooting its own foot, reinstate/award them a teaching license as a gesture?
For teachers in that state it would be pretty easy since it's a compact state. I would recommend Oregon or Washington.
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It's so dystopian that teachers lose their jobs for encouraging children to read and that "free speech" advocates in state government are literally censoring books, the very thing that the first amendment is designed to stop governments doing.
An attorney for Boismier, who now works at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City
I am assuming and hoping they are talking about the teacher getting a job there. That's fucking awesome if so
Yeah, she got the fuck out of dodge like two years ago. This case has been dragging on for a long time - OSDE has done shady shit like change the meeting time when they saw KFOR reporters there.
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More nazi shit. . .
I fuckin hate Oklahoma Nazis.
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
Do you think its a feedback loop that states with the worst test scores make the worst decisions about education?
A designed loop until they can make the whole thing implode and eliminate public education. Goal is to then drive to religious schools with vouchers that cost more and more work time and importantly to keep woman in the home, not working, and persistently pregnant.
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Where do I buy that shirt? It's awesome!
https://shop.bklynlibrary.org/products/books-unbanned-qr-tee-black
Looks like it's print on demand so they aren't paying to house a large warehouse of stock.
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Streisand effect go!
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
I mean, the solution is pretty easy: just stop teaching children to read. See? Problem solved.
Soon:
Only 'god's word' may be read. But only by those appointed by 'god'.
Reading is the apple in Eden.
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That'd be like firing the college professor who tells the students they can find the PDF for free online.
Like, politics of book banning aside, if you support this, you're a fuckin knob.
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I'm not a lawyer so could someone explain to me how laws like this don't immediately fail a prior restraint test?
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Is there a list of libraries who offer a digital library card? (Forgot what's our called I think it of state library card)
That's fine. Oklahoma totally does not have a shortage of teachers or anything. /s
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