Teacher’s Action Draws Reprimand
From Times Wire Reports
A fourth-grade student was reading a magazine when his teacher, Wanda Nelson, grabbed it, called it “pornography,” ripped up the offending pages and threw them in a trash can. The magazine was National Geographic, and the pornography was an article on evolution that included drawings of naked humans. The teacher received a written reprimand for “inappropriate action.” But the school superintendent did not believe censorship was an issue.
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