A former public high school teacher in Oklahoma had her teaching license revoked by the State Board of Education Thursday for providing students a link to a list of banned books posted online two years prior.

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.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    2 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.

        • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

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

            • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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              2 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!

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 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

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        2 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!”.

    • Gerudo@lemm.ee
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      2 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.

  • modifier@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

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

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    they should revoke the license of the board and ban them from getting anywhere within 500m of an educational institution

  • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
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        2 months ago

        The first line of the article calls her “a former teacher” so I took it to mean she was the one working at the NY library.

        Edit to add …

        Boismier lost her job after she gave students a QR code to the Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned project. Now she’s in charge of teen initiatives at the library, and will be part of its Freedom to Read Advocacy Institute with PEN America. The free, online four-week training program will teach high school students to combat book banning in their schools and libraries. Source

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

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

      • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Small detail, New York City has three public library Systems (New York, Queens, and Brooklyn). While all three have Banned Books events, BPL specifically (in conjunction with Boston Public Library, LA County Library, San Diego Library and Seattle Public Library) runs a service called Books Unbanned that is said to offer a full collection of Banned Books (I believe NYPL and QPL’s banned collections are curated/limited) to essentially any US resident (Many libraries have residency requirements although I believe NYPL and QPL have waived those [when I was kid you had to bring a piece of mail in NYC to get a card]).

    • Lemmeenym@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Brooklyn is in New York. Also, actual book bans are unconstitutional under the first amendment. What these laws do is prohibit state funded entities like public schools and public libraries in the state from having the books available. The books are still available in privately owned places.

  • t�m@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Is there a list of libraries who offer a digital library card? (Forgot what’s our called I think it of state library card)

  • dubious@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    thought experiment:

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

    • Foni@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

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

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    How regressive and backwards and detrimental to humanity you have to be to get mad at a teacher for distributing educational material.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Badlahoma things. What to expect from a state that extolled the virtues of oil industry for primary school children but forbids teaching about climate change?

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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?

    • ____@infosec.pub
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      2 months ago

      Generally? Well within the executive power / administrative law of any given state as noted by BlueFalcon below.

      Practically? I’d expect it to be quite a struggle. For licensed professions in general (doctors, real estate, insurance, hairdressers, etc.) most or all states ask a question to the effect of “Has your license for profession ever been suspended or revoked in any other state?”. It may or may not be an automatic disqualifier, but even if not it’s an uphill battle.

      It prevents the real estate agent who stole someone’s earnest money from upping stakes to the next state and getting licensed, but since the standards for suspending/revoking licenses vary widely by state I lean towards believing that perhaps it should be a factor, and perhaps the state board of profession should meet to review the application, but previous disciplinary action in some other state is in no way an absolute statement about someone’s fitness to practice in their chosen field.

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        For 3 seconds or so I was confused, wondering why Oregon or Washington would be considered particularly small or dense