A teacher in Washington state said he was recently fired for reading his class a passage from “To Kill a Mockingbird” without censoring the n-word. Matthew Mastronardi, a Spanish teacher at West ...
A West Valley High School Spanish teacher lost his job after reading a passage from “To Kill a Mockingbird” that contained a racial slur. The West Valley School District superintendent requested the ...
I was born and educated in Texas. I became a writer because, as a Houston high school teacher, I wanted my students to find books with characters they could relate to — people looking to create ...