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The Associated Press reports:
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.
Ryan Walters, who was a candidate for Oklahoma’s top education office when Boismier was teaching, had called on the board in 2022 to revoke her teaching license in a letter he shared on social media.
Read the full article. Boismier received threats after online attacks by Walters, Libs Of TikTok, and other cultists.
Two years later after Summer Boismier drew national attention for posting a QR code in her classroom that linked to a library catalog containing banned books, state Superintendent Ryan Walters said her certification to teach is now revoked. https://t.co/358WwSikSe
— Oklahoma Voice (@Oklahoma_Voice) August 22, 2024
The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted unanimously to strip former Norman teacher Summer Boismier of her license. Two others face hearings. https://t.co/7LZrTLVwOm
— The Oklahoman (@TheOklahoman_) August 23, 2024
🧵1/2: I will not apologize for sharing publicly available information about library access with my students. My livelihood will never be as important as someone’s life or right to read what they want. I fully intend to fight this revocation and the law that enables it: HB 1775. https://t.co/bzATorsIH1
— Ms. Boismier, M.Ed. (@MsBoismier_ELA) August 23, 2024
🧵2/2: As always, I am proud to stand with students, teachers, fellow Oklahomans, and fellow Americans in support of both the freedom to read and the freedom to be. #OklaEd #BooksUnbanned
— Ms. Boismier, M.Ed. (@MsBoismier_ELA) August 23, 2024