Following her journey
Jan. 23rd, 2008 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spirithorse21Yesterday, I posted a news story about an Indianapolis school teacher who may loose her job for using the book Freedom Writers Journal. While I could be naive and say that I thought our society was past this sort of childish and sniveling behavior, I know better. It's all about what is Appropriate. It's gotta be Appropriate.
Well, today the Indianapolis Star has posted this story in which Erin Gruwell, author of Freedom Writers Journal, will be supporting the Indianapolis teacher. I hope this woman gets to keep her job and that all those parents that said their child could read the book (because the teacher did get permission slips from all but one child out of 154) show up at her hearing and rip the school board a new one.
The Superintendent's response? "I don't know if it will be a public hearing or not and I don't have enough information to choose sides."
Coward. Tax payers pay the salary of those teachers, that decision should be public.
Oh, and the Super is surprised at how much controversy this has stirred up! *headdesk*
Well, today the Indianapolis Star has posted this story in which Erin Gruwell, author of Freedom Writers Journal, will be supporting the Indianapolis teacher. I hope this woman gets to keep her job and that all those parents that said their child could read the book (because the teacher did get permission slips from all but one child out of 154) show up at her hearing and rip the school board a new one.
The Superintendent's response? "I don't know if it will be a public hearing or not and I don't have enough information to choose sides."
Coward. Tax payers pay the salary of those teachers, that decision should be public.
Oh, and the Super is surprised at how much controversy this has stirred up! *headdesk*
