When Oklahoma passed laws that pressured teachers to remove books on race, gender and sexuality from their classrooms, she refused. Other teachers resisted, too — but Ms. Boismier did so loudly. She plastered her 10th-grade English classroom with signs of protest, posted to social media and advised her students on how they could find books online. Eventually she resigned.
She knew that in her conservative state she would be criticized, but the reaction was much more severe than she expected. And in 2024, the state took away Ms. Boismier’s teaching license.
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So she broke just about every teacher code there is. Is it supposed to be some kind of a shock that she got fired?
It’s not her job or her authority to approve or disapprove of the laws.
Kindles are a stealthier option.
More and more stories that come out of the US give me the impression of a totalitarian state that only cares to enforce its oppression on people who get in view of it
It’s always a crapshoot when you see a story about the education system in a deep red state, but it’s nice to see that there are people still fighting the good fight.
Seems like a winnable 1A lawsuit
They have [Books Unbanned](https://youtube.com/shorts/uUup8Keh3dU?si=ftbJaPDCmvlcaRVf) library cards for people in crappy red states.
More and more US policy starts to resemble Russia or North Korea.
This is one of those stories where the personal cost feels heavier than the policy debate itself. It is easy to talk about laws in the abstract, but the fallout lands on real people and their careers. Even teachers who quietly disagreed seemed to face pressure, so being public was always going to carry risk. It still feels unsettling to see a license taken over something tied to access to books and ideas.
Disgusting. Every day the fascism grows.