Oklahoma’s NAACP has criticized state education secretary Ryan Walters for calling on the state Board of Education to revoke a Norman Public Schools teacher’s license.
Former Norman High School English teacher Summer Boismier garnered statewide and national attention after she placed butcher paper with the words “Books the state doesn’t want you to read” over a classroom shelf and gave students a QR code to the Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned project.
Boismier quit her job Aug. 24 after the school district met with her over a complaint from a parent alleging she “made derogatory and divisive remarks toward state legislators and used her classroom to make a political display expressing her own opinions,” according to a Tuesday statement from Superintendent Nick Migliorino.
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