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hay rick

(9,468 posts)
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 11:47 PM Sep 2025

Oklahoma teacher shares library QR code, is fired, and more...

Last edited Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:33 AM - Edit history (2)

https://www.tiktok.com/@bryan.prestage/video/7530710019231321358

She was suspended for sharing the QR code for the library, so she quit. Now they are going after her teaching certificate.

It turns out the video relates to a story from 2023. The QR code was a link to a banned books collection in the library. See link in post 4.
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Oklahoma teacher shares library QR code, is fired, and more... (Original Post) hay rick Sep 2025 OP
oklahoma, utah, alabama....can we let them secede? msongs Sep 2025 #1
No. Morbius Sep 2025 #2
context ? Tetrachloride Sep 2025 #3
It's a 2023 story. Link here: Heidi Sep 2025 #4
ty Tetrachloride Sep 2025 #5
thank you. hay rick Sep 2025 #6
Worth visiting the link, DUers. Educators still face this :poop: Heidi Sep 2025 #7
In TX if a teacher just up and quits and leaves on bad terms, Igel Sep 2025 #8

Morbius

(941 posts)
2. No.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 12:04 AM
Sep 2025

There are good Americans in Oklahoma, Utah and Alabama. They may be outnumbered by idiots and MAGA-nuts and racists, but they are real and they are there and they are our people. We should never abandon them.

hay rick

(9,468 posts)
6. thank you.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:29 AM
Sep 2025

I was unaware it was an old story and that the QR code was to a banned books collection in the library, not just to the library. I will add this context to the OP.

Heidi

(58,846 posts)
7. Worth visiting the link, DUers. Educators still face this :poop:
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:03 AM
Sep 2025

and it’s only gotten worse in the past two years.

Igel

(37,433 posts)
8. In TX if a teacher just up and quits and leaves on bad terms,
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 01:54 PM
Sep 2025

well, the teacher's breaking a good-faith contract and usually part of that is the understanding that breaking the contract is grounds for the school (district) to seek revocation of the certificate.

I've known a lot of teachers that did quit mid-year but their exit was talked over with admin ahead of time, the reasons were understandable and the principal agreed to release them.

Just walking out while insulting the admin would not be conducive to getting admin to agree to just release the teacher.

Since the attitude presented seems to be "never going back into the classroom," certificate revocation is both a meaningless bit of punitive behavior on the part of the admin but also of null effect on the former teacher.

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