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Oklahoma Teacher Quits After Directing Kids to Banned Books<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast, Getty, Courtesy of Summer Boismier</p> <p>An <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/oklahoma-republican-insulted-teachers-so-a-teacher-is-now-running-to-unseat-him">Oklahoma</a> high school teacher resigned this week after providing her students with a QR code to access free, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/book-ban-backfires-with-texas-kellar-independent-school-district-forced-to-pull-the-bible-anne-frank-book">banned books</a> online, a bizarre new turn in the cascading <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-rights-critical-race-theory-panic-is-pure-projection">right-wing panic</a> over teaching about race and gender in schools.</p> <p>“I don’t feel like I can just go back into a classroom right now in this state and the environment we find ourselves in and do my job,” Summer Boismier told The Daily Beast.</p> <p>Boismier’s resignation was <a href="https://twitter.com/wsuares/status/1561900288252026880">first reported by Fox 25’s reporter Wendy Suares</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/summer-boismier-of-norman-high-school-in-oklahoma-gave-kids-qr-code-to-brooklyn-library-list-of-banned-books?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast, Getty, Courtesy of Summer Boismier

An Oklahoma high school teacher resigned this week after providing her students with a QR code to access free, banned books online, a bizarre new turn in the cascading right-wing panic over teaching about race and gender in schools.

“I don’t feel like I can just go back into a classroom right now in this state and the environment we find ourselves in and do my job,” Summer Boismier told The Daily Beast.

Boismier’s resignation was first reported by Fox 25’s reporter Wendy Suares.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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