Posted on 02/18/2023 9:48:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A viral hoax showing a supposedly cleaned-out library as a result of a new Florida law banning explicit material in schools has resulted in a teacher being fired.
Brian Covey, who was a substitute teacher for Duval County Public Schools (Jacksonville area), was told his services would no longer be needed after he posted a video making it seem as if the Mandarin Middle School library had been emptied out. When questioned about the situation at the time, Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced it as a fake narrative, noting that nothing in the law required any school to take any such action.
Apparently, the school hadn’t taken such action. Covey had instead filmed some random empty shelves in a library otherwise full of books. That was deemed to be a violation of the district’s social media policy and a harm to students by making them believe there were no books to check out.
Naturally, outlets like The Washington Post are still pushing the false narrative, even as they report on the firing and why it occurred.
A Florida teacher was fired this week after posting a video of empty bookshelves that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) called “a fake narrative” at a time when teachers in the state are removing or covering books in public schools to comply with new state laws.
https://t.co/80dicKPaYv— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 18, 2023
“In discussion between the district and ESS regarding this individual’s misrepresentation of the books available to students in the school’s library and the disruption this misrepresentation has caused, it was determined that he had violated social media and cellphone policies of his employer,” the district said. “Therefore, ESS determined these policy violations made it necessary to part ways with this individual.”
If you read the article, they admit that Covey’s video was a misrepresentation. Yet, the Post, just a few words later, immediately repeats the falsehood that teachers are being forced to remove and cover books.
No, they aren’t. Rather, they are being forced to remove books with graphic sexual content such as “Gender Queer,” which contains illustrated scenes of gay sex. Ask yourself, why are these press outlets so obsessed with ensuring kids are exposed to sexual content in schools? I don’t have an answer to that, and I suspect the reasons vary, but it’s certainly a really weird and gross dynamic.
The reality is that there is no prohibition on what anyone would consider normal, acceptable reading material for children. The curation of books to exclude explicit and sexual content is not new and has long been part of school libraries. Any teachers or administrators that are rushing to clean out a library or cover up whole bookshelves are doing so simply as a political stunt.
Of course, advocacy groups are treating Covey as a victim, arguing his First Amendment rights were violated.
Kate Ruane, a director at the free-speech nonprofit organization PEN America, said in an interview that Duval’s termination of Covey may have violated the teacher’s First Amendment rights.
“What the district has done is clearly an attempt to chill the speech of public school teachers,” Ruane said.
You do not have a First Amendment right to take video at work in order to mislead and lie about your employer (in this case, partially being the State of Florida). Social media policies for employment have long existed and have long been held up as legal by the courts. Covey wanted his moment in the spotlight, and he got it. All it cost him was his job, and deservedly so. If he wants to be an activist, maybe Al Sharpton’s outfit, which is currently wasting time in Florida, is hiring.
...and particular reason why we still need libraries, or especially librarians? Maybe to deliver porn to our kids?
2 Thessalonians 2
1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
I’m just so over these people. *sigh*
On one hand, Leftists can’t let children enjoy childhood.
OTOH, once they reach adulthood, Leftists revert to adolescence.
Meanwhile, “sensitivity readers” have received permission to alter the wording in Ron Dahl’s children masterpieces. Augustus Gloop will no longer be referred to as “fat” Guess kids will just have to infer that he is when he gets stuck in the pipe. The Ommpa Loopas a tribe of little men will be referred to a “little people.” Only God knows what will happen to the BFG.
As my dad would say, "Not worth the powder to blow them to hell."
That was my first thought, too. They had that many sexually explicit books?!!!
Good. One less man-child having a hissy fit at tax-payer’s expense. No more of this jerk thrashing on the floor screaming to get his way.
Now wouldn’t it be nice if they had to put Huckleberry Finn and To Kiil a Mockingbird into the library.
To Kill a Mockingbird is early 1960s white knight liberal horse poop.
I find it disgusting that my Baby Boomer generation tried to burnish their morality by displaying the attitude they would have stepped into Finch’s place if they had been asked. They never had that sort of courage.
And, as a corollary, that this teacher, and apparently the Washington Post, saw nothing wrong with a library full of sexually explicit books for middle schoolers!
Brian Covey - “PERMANENT substitute teacher”.
Permanent? I guess now he’ll have to go out and get a real job somewhere. GOOD RIDDANCE, Brian… enjoy the real economy.
In many schools they have so many teachers that it is a certainty that someone is going to be out. So you have a substitute teacher there every day ready to step in.
Lots of companies have permanent temporary workers on staff because it makes more sense to have someone who is there to fill in who already knows the job.
Precisely! It seems it never even occurred to the teacher or to WaPo that anyone would think it was wrong or bizarre for a jr. high library to have a larger collection of porno books than the biggest big city porno book stores.
It makes it crystal clear what these perverts are imagining that middle school kids do all day in class.
As I’ve said many times on the forum, leftists do everything they can to increase their odds of engaging in sexual activity. Everything. Poisoning the minds of children is at the top of the list.
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