A Florida teacher was fired this week after posting a video of empty bookshelves that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) called “a fake narrative” at a time when teachers in the state are removing or covering books in public schools to comply with new state laws.
Covey had worked in finance before taking a job as a full-time substitute math teacher at Mandarin Middle School in October, he told The Post. He was working without a teaching certificate, but said he had asked the district for a temporary permit so he could eventually teach full time.As part of the state’s Literacy Week last month, Covey said a book fair was supposed to be in the middle school’s library to help promote reading.
After his fifth-grade son told him something similar happened at his school, Covey told The Post that his “mind was blown.”“I wanted to show the reality of what the library looked like,” he told The Post. “This is a real thing.” But Covey, who says DeSantis’s remarks “absolutely” played a role in his firing, argued that taking books away from classrooms and libraries is “beyond politics.”Freedom to Read, a Florida advocacy group that fights against book challenges, wrote in a statement Saturday that Covey’s firing will cause other teachers to feel too afraid to speak up when they see something untoward happening in their districts.
“What the district has done is clearly an attempt to chill the speech of public school teachers,” Ruane said.
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