Texas teacher reinstated after BLM, LGBTQ virtual posters controversy – By ShaCamree Gowdy (Houston Chronicle) / Aug 27 2020
Everyone is welcome in Roma High School teacher Taylor Lifka’s advanced English class, and that’s the message she was trying to convey by hanging Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ and Spanish posters in her virtual classroom.
But instead, she sparked controversy and was put on administrative leave.
“My assistant principal told me, ‘Please take the posters down.’ I guess once that happened, I knew that it might be a rocky road, but considering being put on leave? I never really thought that that was going to be their first step,” Lifka said in an interview with The Texas Tribune.
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