Reply #38: I can.

[knitter4democracy]

The girls school I taught in had two teachers who they'd tried to fire a few years before I got there. They were in the religion department, and they'd tried to cover sex ed in their classes with seniors. It was very low key, they'd never had any trouble before, and they didn't even say that kids had to use birth control but just raised it as a question. Needless to say, though, word somehow got out to the local Opus Dei chapter, and they pressured the school to fire the two teachers.

When that happened, all heck broke loose. The kids protested, the parents stormed the school and the board meetings, demanding that the teachers be re-hired, and other teachers said they'd quit too if the two teachers weren't reinstated with no penalties.

When it finally got out that Opus Dei was behind it all in order to pretty much take over the school and make it one of theirs, the board rehired the teachers and told Opus Dei to take a hike. They're all still nervous, though, as Opus Dei even got to one of the religion teachers (who was then fired when it was found that he was teaching pre-Vatican II theology instead of the school theology curriculum).

The two teachers in question, though, were still nervous when I was hired and even changed some of their materials and curriculum because of it. They always felt they were still targets and were careful whom they talked with and what they said in class.