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

[hay rick]

Last edited Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:33 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.

[msongs]

1. oklahoma, utah, alabama....can we let them secede?

[Morbius]

2. No.

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.

[Tetrachloride]

3. context ?

[Heidi]

4. It's a 2023 story. Link here:

https://oklahomavoice.com/briefs/former-norman-teacher-who-shared-link-to-banned-books-still-in-license-limbo/

[Tetrachloride]

5. ty

[hay rick]

6. thank you.

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]

7. Worth visiting the link, DUers. Educators still face this :poop:

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

[Igel]

8. In TX if a teacher just up and quits and leaves on bad terms,

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.