Fla. Teacher Resigns After School District Removes His 'Age Inappropriate' Images of Historic Black Americans

[Luce]

MSN

A teacher in Florida has resigned after he says a school district employee removed photos of historic Black American figures from a bulletin board in his classroom.

Michael James, the teacher, reported the incident that occurred at the O.J. Semmes Elementary School to both Escambia County Superintendent Tim Smith and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in an email, The Pensacola Journal reported.

James told the paper that he chose the theme for the bulletin board because the majority of the students in his class are Black and he wanted to showcase leaders that his students could look up to and see themselves in.

James said the images removed from the board included Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Colin Powell and George Washington Carver — and that an image of former President Barack Obama on his desk was also removed.

Apparently not a matter of policy, just a bog-standard Florida bigot functionary who decided to remove the pictures.

 

[Mr Person]

Official policy is far from the only threat of laws and policies like those DeSantis has pursued in a bid to out-Trump Trump.

 

[Loulit01]

I wouldn't worry about it. It's Florida, so this teacher can be replaced by a gung-ho, far right veteran with 60 credits and an 8X10 color glossy picture of Trump on his desk.

 

[noonereal]

I wouldn't worry about it. It's Florida, so this teacher can be replaced by a gung-ho, far right veteran with 60 credits and an 8X10 color glossy picture of Trump on his desk.

Yeah, but to be fair, 60 credits is enough for most teaching jobs.

Especially in red America.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Fascist GOP schoolboards.... destroying one school at a time.

 

[Ginger Ale]

Oh the Christian Right is so gross. They also just kicked an orphan whose parents died from her school where she has her friends because she was adopted by a gay couple, who are Christian, but not "those Christians."

 

[Luce]

Oh the Christian Right is so gross. They also just kicked an orphan whose parents died from her school where she has her friends because she was adopted by a gay couple, who are Christian, but not "those Christians."

Religion is a disease.