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Teacher Refuses To Teach Racially-Themed Book In Classroom

Last updated on Friday, March 14, 2008
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(INDIANAPOLIS) - School officials have shelved a proposed settlement with a teacher who could lose her job for disobeying orders not to use a racially-themed book in her classroom.

Instead of considering the proposed settlement with Connie Heermann, the Perry Township School Board went into a closed-session meeting to discuss her future at Perry Meridian High School.

She was placed on administrative leave in November after continuing to use the "Freedom Writers Diary" despite a supervisor's order to stop using it in her classroom.


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