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.
I am assuming and hoping they are talking about the teacher getting a job there. That’s fucking awesome if so
I’m hoping the same, that’s quite the story in and of itself.
Right? I couldn’t believe no one had brought it up
Well, it sounds like the attorney has a job still, and it probably pays a little better too, so I assume so.
I thought they meant the attorney.
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 …
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.