The Springfield School Board has withdrawn a proposal saying teachers “do not have a right to use the school setting as a forum to promote their personal views” and giving parental opt-out when the classroom gets too controversial.

“The district’s discussion on race only expanded leading up to Wednesday night’s meeting as less than a month after the Springfield School Board first talked about the age-appropriateness of the book, Derek Johnson, a newly-hired K-5 literacy coordinator, submitted a letter of resignation to McLaughlin on Wednesday, Sept. 2, saying that, in part, he experienced race-based microaggressions and attacks on his professionalism by high-level members of the district."

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