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Oklahoma revokes license of teacher who gave class QR code to Brooklyn library in book-ban protest

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.

interdimensionalmeme ,

Does anyone have that qr code ?

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

Streisand effect go!

ravhall ,

She got a go fund me for moving expenses?

dubious ,

thought experiment:

if everyone in oklahoma ceased to exist, would the world be a better place?

Foni ,

No, this teacher is in Oklahoma and she is trying to make the world a better place

finickydesert ,
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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)

Cadeillac ,
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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

RubberElectrons ,
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I’m hoping the same, that’s quite the story in and of itself.

Cadeillac ,
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Right? I couldn’t believe no one had brought it up

Cethin ,

Well, it sounds like the attorney has a job still, and it probably pays a little better too, so I assume so.

jaybone ,

I thought they meant the attorney.

Snapz ,

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?

Bluefalcon ,

For teachers in that state it would be pretty easy since it’s a compact state. I would recommend Oregon or Washington.

teachercompact.org/compact-map/

blazera ,
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Do you think its a feedback loop that states with the worst test scores make the worst decisions about education?

Snapz ,

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.

corsicanguppy ,

They think they can force the '50s on America? They realize with house prices there’s no magical white collar job Howard Cunningham can get that will provide enough for a house and allow Miriam to stay home and care for Ritchie and Joanie, right? Even if Miriam has no education and there’s no choice, it’s not enough to support 4 people and a house.

Even beyond the textbook cruelty of subjugating one person under another based on sex like it’s Afghanistan, limiting education so they’re pliable and dehumanized and dependent, the fact remains: it’s impossible financially to re-create the McCarthy era no matter how much they really really want it in their twisted, poisoned hearts.

For so, oh so many reasons, we’re not going back.

jaybone ,

In this scenario, how does the ruling class maintain their numbers? Do they send their kids to private schools where the actual education occurs? Or they haven’t thought that far ahead yet?

Pacattack57 ,

No because the same fuckers have been in power for the last 70 years. They’re the ones that started the changes.

modifier ,

Thank you, Summer Boismier, for standing up for what is right and being a true patriot.

JoMiran ,
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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.

…bibliocommons.com/…/2151249439_banned_camp_septe…

UnderpantsWeevil ,
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Hey! They’re trying to learn for free! Get’m!

some_guy ,

I mean, the solution is pretty easy: just stop teaching children to read. See? Problem solved.

masterofn001 ,

Soon:

Only ‘god’s word’ may be read. But only by those appointed by ‘god’.

Reading is the apple in Eden.

Serinus ,

The children yearn for the mines.

floofloof ,

This is how it used to be. Ordinary people couldn’t read the Bible, so they had to take the priests’ word for what was in there. Some evangelicals would truly like to return to this.

jaybone ,

That’s how organized religion started, so…

mp3 ,
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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

Diplomjodler3 ,

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.

Xeroxchasechase ,

… is a great way make an uneducated population for the benefit of the next authoritarian ruler

Samvega ,

Yes. Failing the populace is not a side-effect, it’s the point.

SkyNTP ,

What fun is it being the king of an unhappy, sickly, unemployable mob of peasants? Your dictatorship will not last a month.

tabarnaski ,

Quite the contrary. An uneducated population is easier to fool and to control. And uneducated != unemployable.

corsicanguppy ,

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!

Samvega ,

Hatred and entitlement aren’t logical.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
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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

Zorsith ,
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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!”.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
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Oklahoma University and OSU both have big out of state populations, too.

Thrashy ,
@Thrashy@lemmy.world avatar

neighboring Nebraska

Kansas: “Am I a joke to you?”

Cort ,

Yes. Kansas is a joke

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

Chasing away public school teachers on our way to privatizing schools is a goal of theirs so yeah mission accomplished

Gerudo ,

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.

corsicanguppy ,

… With authoritarian hierarchy and submissive teachers.

foggy ,

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.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
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I’m sure this has happened at a college campus somewhere. College book stores are a huge sinesure for friends of the administration.

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