An Oklahoma teacher left her job after the state’s Secretary of Education accused her of giving students “banned and pornographic material.” The accusation came after Summer Boismier posted a QR code for the Brooklyn Public Library’s “Books UnBanned” program. It allows anyone 13 to 21 years old to access the library’s entire digital collection for free.
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Bklyn Public Library source: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned
Recognizing Two Years of Books Unbanned
In April 2022, Brooklyn Public Library joined those fighting for the rights of teens nationwide to read what they like, discover themselves, and form their own opinions. Inspired by the American Library Association’s Freedom to Read Statement, Books Unbanned is a response to an increasingly coordinated and effective effort to remove books from library shelves.
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- Image to text: [Ryan Walters | Office of the Secretary of Education | State of Oklahoma
Oklahoma State Board of Education:
In light of recent events involving Norman High School English Teacher Summer Boismier, I am asking the Oklahoma State Board of Education to revoke her teaching certificate immediately. Upon review of the situation, the teacher resigned rather than face removal. There is no place for a teacher with a liberal political agenda in the classroom. Ms. Boismier’s providing access to banned and pornographic material to students is unacceptable and we must ensure she doesn’t go to another district and do the same thing. This action must be dealt with swiftly and with respect to all our kids and parents.
Teachers are one of our state’s greatest assets and it is unfortunate that one of them has caused such harm and shame for the entire profession. This type of behavior will not be tolerated in Oklahoma and I speak for parents across the state who are demanding swift and immediate action.
Kids first, | Ryn Walter | Ryan Walters | Oklahoma Secretary of Education
State Capitol Building | 2300 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 212 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105 | 405.521.2342]
As a porn watcher I think it’s ironic that most pornstars (and all hotwives I’ve seen) are from the South and toute a gun loving, right wing Texas personality. Meanwhile this secretary tries to protect kids from the leftist books.
Teachers are one of our state’s greatest assets
We’re ranked 49th in education
Sure bud
Ah, but never forget that America has the best education system globally as dictated by American News Media.
So it may look bad on paper, but imagine living anywhere else. It’s so much worse!
USA! USA! USA!
I hope this gets thrown out swiftly. FFS what is wrong with these people?
As if the internet was not full of porn and horrible stuff FREELY available to everyone who can click “I am 18”.
But no, free acces to educational resources, that’s where the line should be drawn. God forbid kids get access to books for free.
They’re trying to shut down porn on the Internet, too. Didn’t Texas already effectively ban it because you have to provide ID verification now?
Texas “effectively” banned non abusive porn. You think that those abuse and rape porn sites care about yet another law broken? And that it effectively keeps people in Texas from seeing any of it?
The only thing banning porn does is benefit abusers.
The ban is yet another example of how out of touch the geriatrics are with technology. The only companies that would ever comply with the ban are American based websites that fear the reach of a u.s. government. In other words, that ban has about as much chance of actually banning porn as I do of stopping rain by yelling at the clouds. All it does is push people to weird foreign/non regulated sites with the weirdest shit imaginable on it. It’s literally doing the exact opposite of what’s intended.
Not to mention it is 100% avoidable if you just have a VPN…
Also it’s a good way to not support US based porn. Russian sites don’t give a shit how old you are.
I’m in Utah and I need a VPN to access porn sites. Even if the nation implements id verification requirements for viewing it, I’ll just set my VPN to Canada or something. It’s stupid
Bro no you don’t. I live in Salt Lake City and watch porn all the time, no VPN. The PornHub universe has pulled themselves from the state, but there is so much more than them.
May his heart stop swiftly and naturally.
This my attempt to walk the line between advocating for violence, and expressing my belief that the world would be a better place without these fucks in it. I don’t want someone to go out and kill them, I’d rather nature expedites their life cycle. But if some loony toons 2a nut job comes unhinged, I won’t shed tears.
I wouldn’t advocate for violence, either, but a lot of these types of fucks came a long way by simplifying the use of violence as a proper means vs use of violence as a way to devolve, then complicating it with their own definitions of violence to bring it back with suitable terms for themselves.
See the latest Trump example and how there is the term “political violence” is applied vs how they apply every day to regular citizens.
I wish any kind of, possibly the worst kind of, violence be upon these types of backwards fucks that become an obstacle against education, progress, and unity.
No book should be banned except The Art of the Deal for being completely useless and teaching you nothing about deal making.
It was written by a degenerate pedophile. Conservatives should ban this book by their own logic.
All I see is a pdo groomer, grooming children in a public education institution, one that is paid by tax payers. In a state that outlawed such material.
Boismier’s long journey to Brooklyn started when Oklahoma passed HB 1775, known as the anti-Critical Race Theory law. The law punishes school districts for teaching lessons designed to make students feel uncomfortable or guilty because of their race or gender.
Boismier was told to weed her classroom library — a library full of books she’d spent her own money to buy over the years. Instead, she draped red paper over them with the words, “Books the state doesn’t want you to read.” She gave students a QR code to the Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned project, which gives students anywhere in the country access to its books.
Her teaching license should be revoked, at the very least in the state of Oklahoma.
You believe the Brooklyn Public Library’s UnBanned Books project is about grooming children for pedophiles? And not just unrestricted access to books in the same way that kids have unrestricted access to the internet?
The point is quite simple, an adult, a so-called educator, is directly providing children access to pornographic material. She’s a slithering pos trying to push her agenda even when she was told to re-evaluate the selection of books she bought, brought into the classroom and gave access to children to… by covering up the books with paper. THEN proceeds to provide a QR code to books that are banned for specific reasons, books that apparently are for an audience as young as 13 years old.
If you can’t see the problem… that’s on you.
You’re so fucking stupid. Maybe you should read any of those books you claim are being pulled as “pornography.”
Source: me, high school librarian
Tell me you’ve never visited a public library without telling me you’ve never visited a public library. https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned
pornographic material
Real Fahrenheit 451 Hours. Excited to hear which books you’re objecting to, specifically. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? The Diary of Anne Frank? To Kill a Mockingbird? The Catcher in the Rye?
books that apparently are for an audience as young as 13 years old.
Wait till you find out what these kids are looking at on Netflix.
Do you actually know what these banned books are? Spoiler alert, it’s definitely not porn
pdo groomer
A special kind of cowardice when you aren’t even willing to type out the whole word.
Ohhh… I’m a coward. Ok. Yet, I’m challenging the narrative purported here.
I’m challenging the narrative
Are you? Challenge implies a certain degree of effort.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need full public library access for all: so no-one else ends up with a vapid mind like this.
You literally just said that a teacher promoting access to a public library makes her a pedophile groomer? hard to believe you support access for all.
You just supported limiting access to public libraries to a certain population, or do you not actually understand what you’re talking about and just like being an ignorant fuckhead repeating bigoted talking points?
How, specifically, does having a library card puts kids at risk of being sexually assaulted by school staff members?
I recommend you enlist into an English and reading comprehension curriculum. Good grief.
She covered her books and directed students to get a library card from a source that is aligned against the book ban. You said this makes her a pedophile groomer, implying she is trying to sexually assault the kids. How?
Don’t be a coward, answer the question :)
All I see is a pdo groomer, grooming children
Given the right wing’s well established tendency to project their own sins onto the left, your spurious accusation here would seem to say more about you than it does about the teacher
… I was almost a victim as a child. It was terrifying. And knowing that feeling of soon to being a victim is fked up for a child. More than likely the reason why I don’t trust a single human being, because their 2nd person, the person that the public doesn’t see, could be a fkin degenerate of the worst kind. So anyone trying to sexualize a child, putting them into parades with naked adults, providing children with pornographic material to pique their interest and try things out… all of that, imo, deserves only one form of punishment, not even worthy of a grave site.
Cool story. So, which books were pornographic? Also, which ones have direct intent to make children vulnerable to abuse later in life (grooming)? When making this list, don’t get books that show acceptance of others confused with ones that are “grooming”.
To anyone else that has it handy, I misplaced my MASSIVE list of actual groomers and pedos that this person may find interesting (it is pretty much all conservatives and religious leaders…there is a small scattering of other walks of life but they are collectively a huge minority).