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LA Teacher Fired for Teaching Students to Think
June 20, 2008 |
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Posted by: Jack, cross-posted at AngryBrownButch
Yesterday while listening to Democracy Now! I heard about Karen Salazar for the first time. She is a high school teacher who was fired from her position at a school in LA because her curriculum was too “Afrocentric” - instead of, you know, the usual Eurocentric curriculum that’s delivered to American students on the daily. From a letter by Salazar posted on the Vivir Latino site:
Jack is a contributor to Feministe and Angry Brown Butch.
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