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Teacher back on the job following a timeout over her choice of a guest speaker
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A teacher at an Aurora middle school faced more than a month of administrative leave after complaints that a guest speaker in her social justice class was politically motivated, according to the Aurora Sentinel. Some parents thought a guest speaker whom teacher Asia Lyons brought into her Sky Vista Middle School class focused on topics…
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A teacher gets sent to the principal’s office over politics in class
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Prayer and politics are two taboos in public schoolrooms. Prayer was dismissed from class long ago, but politics finds its way in every once in a while. And when it does, some parents are sure to object. The latest breach of the wall of separation between school and, well, the outside world allegedly occurred in…