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❗️NEW- The teacher at the center of the Norman High book controversy says she’s had to leave her home because of threatening and vulgar messages, including some with her address and apartment number listed…

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Summer Boismier says she no longer feels safe returning home amid the harassment. The threats began, she says, after @sec_walters posted this letter accusing her of providing “pornagraphic materials” to students…

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Here’s an example of the sort of messages she is now receiving. (This came at 5:01pm on Wednesday.) She blames the rhetoric from Walters for this reaction. We’ve had to blur out much of it due to profanity. @OKCFOX

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A quick🧵on the Norman teacher controversy. As we reported, @sec_walters called for her to lose her teaching license after she shared a QR code to an online library. He said "sexualizing our classrooms will not be tolerated." But other districts also offer public library access..

The specific book that prompted the Norman complaint was 'Gender Queer,' a graphic novel. The Norman parent called it "pornography." (The mom told us she chose to seek out the book and purchase it.) Efforts to ban the book in Virginia just failed.... time.com/6210087/gender…

Other Oklahoma districts, like Tulsa for example, allow students full access to the same book through apps like Hoopla. This is how libraries work. To be clear, many of the texts included in these public online libraries have been verified as "not sexual in nature." ...

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‼️NORMAN BOOK BAN- A close source tells me an English teacher has already been removed at Norman High for providing students a qr code link to the Brooklyn Library and informing them there are free e-books there. This caused further fallout among other teachers in the district...

NPS, like many districts, is also making teachers review their classroom libraries and remove any titles that don’t have 2 research articles demonstrating their value. Teachers were given virtually no time to accomplish this so students returned to classes with empty bookshelves.

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All of this comes as staff members tell me they are still reeling from the firing of a teacher over the summer. They tell me the district is "extremely retaliatory." @OKCFOX will be following up with district officials asap.
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