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Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class. (www.chron.com)

submitted 1 year ago by jnovinger@programming.dev to c/texas@lemmy.world

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[-] Kushan@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Is that something to get fired over though? There's still context missing here - assigning a non-approved book alone seems like something you reprimand someone over, not fire them. Was there something particularly egregious about that particular version of the book?

[-] SARGEx117@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure if you've ever read her diary, or the ORIGINAL diary, but the original non-edited version, she goes into detail about her sexuality and specifically about another girl. Her father basically ripped out/omitted pages out of shame.

Since the version the school approved was the same version just graphic novellized, you can bet a Texas school did NOT approve the original version.