Students and teachers are up in arms that Karen Salazar was fired??from a Los Angeles high school for "encouraging political activism among her students," namely by accusing the LAUSD of denying students "basic human rights" and "doing it on purpose in order to keep them subservient [and] to subjugate them in society." Pretty bold comment there from Ms. Salazar, who calls her student supporters "warrior scholars." Administrators termed her teaching too "Afro-centric" and apparently thought her "advocacy crossed the line."
I'm all for creatively engaging high school students in the subject matter (I used to have to do it myself once upon a time), but it appears that the subject matter was less important here than the politics. Frankly, teachers aren't given the same degree of intellectual freedom as, say, Flypaper bloggers are.... Besides,??does political activism appear in her English Language curriculum standards?
