For now, my favorite part of Persepolisgate—the latest educational train wreck engineered by the Emanuel administration—is the parent-penis theory.
In fact, I’d like to take the time to give a shout-out to the teacher who was one of the first to champion Persepolis in CPS. That would be Nora Flanagan, an award-winning English teacher at Northside College Prep.
That’s when librarians started getting calls from the central office that schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett had ordered all copies of Persepolis removed from classrooms and libraries throughout the system. They weren’t told why. Nor was it clear how many schools in the system owned copies, though the book was being taught in classrooms outside of Lane.
“There are two ways a school can own a copy of a book,” explains a teacher at another high school. “It can be a library book or part of the curriculum. The Supreme Court ruled that you can’t take books from libraries. CPS has jurisdiction over curriculum books.”
Ouch.
Well, I’m glad she made everything clear.
