Re: Vile Traitor, Greenfield teacher fired for teaching Critical Race Theory was involved in 1991 Jasper textbook controversy

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A Greenfield High School teacher who was fired for allegedly
teaching Critical Race Theory in her classes was involved in a
similar controversy 31 years ago when she was teaching English
at Jasper High School.

Original post: Greenfield R-4 School District fires teacher who
allegedly taught Critical Race Theory.

In 1991, the Jasper R-5 Board of Education voted unanimously to
remove a McGraw-Hill textbook, The Writer's Resource: Readings
for Composition, that was being used in the English IV college
prep class because of language that offended some parents.

The teacher of that class, Kim Morrison, had contacted all
parents beforehand letting them know that the book contained
language she did not condone and asked any parents with concerns
to contact her.

Not one parent contacted her. As is often the case, they went
directly over her head to school board members.

Some Jasper parents and students fought unsuccessfully against
removal of the book.

A McGraw-Hill official told the Joplin Globe that not only was
it the first time a school district had voted to remove the
book, it was also the first time the company had ever received
any complaints about it.

During the board meeting, a board member held up the book and
said, "This is poison. This has no business ever getting in a
classroom. Our kids shouldn't have to face that."

Thankfully, the next year, the 11 "kids" in that class, some of
whom briefly considered a legal challenge to the board's
decision, were in college where they never had to encounter
anything offensive in their books.

That controversy did not cost Kim Morrison her job, though she
did not return to the Jasper school district the following year.

At Greenfield this year, parental complaints about her teaching
Critical Race Theory (she wasn't) led to a split vote that
resulted in her contract not being renewed for next year.

According to Morrison, none of those complaints came from the
parents of the students in her classroom.

From the Greenfield Vedette:

"I was told then by the principal that there had been some
parents' complaints," said Morrison. "She told me that she
didn't feel comfortable telling who, but she did confirm that
none of them had students in the class."

(The post originally said the board president held up the book
and said it was poison. The post has been corrected to reflect
it was a board member, not the board president.)