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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.

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 179 points 3 months ago

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@lemmy.world 183 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 113 points 3 months ago

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

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 months ago

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

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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!

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Automation is so much less fun than institutional cruelty!

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Hatred and entitlement aren't logical.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Oklahoma imports it's high education labor from neighboring Nebraska and Texas, then keeps the locals ignorant and pliable for the cheap local labor

[-] Thrashy@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

neighboring Nebraska

Kansas: "Am I a joke to you?"

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago
[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Hey, at least they were able to protect abortion access via direct ballot voting.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago

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@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

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@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

... With authoritarian hierarchy and submissive teachers.

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

With ~~authoritarian hierarchy and submissive teachers.~~.

state funded religious indoctrination aka "private school vouchers."

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yep, it's a great way to get more gop voters, that's for sure

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