Long before George Floyd was killed – and many Americans turned a serious eye toward acknowledging, understanding and even uprooting systemic racism – high school English teacher Amy Donofrio was encouraging her students in Jacksonville, Florida to push for equality and empowerment, for justice and personal achievement.
She wanted them to dream and thrive, and she developed an interpersonal road map to assist them in reaching their destiny – be it helping them apply to colleges, decide on a trade or meet with recruiters and enlist in the military.
As an educator at Robert E. Lee High School (we’ll get to that abomination in a moment), where the student body is 70% Black, Donofrio also wanted to offer a safe space for her students where they could talk openly about race, where they knew their opinions were valued and their voices mattered.
This teacher was doing what teachers do, besides just teach the basics. She provided a place for students to dream, live, and feel safe to talk, and sometimes, to just breathe.
No rules were broken. She is in “teacher jail”, unable to have contact with her students, with some of them ready to graduate.
Florida strikes again.
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/05/23/teacher-amy-donofrio-black-lives-matter-flag-jacksonville-florida/5147034001/
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Didn’t for me. I do not subscribe to USA today.
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Another white teacher saving the oppressed “at risk” yutes?
Time for another Hillary Swank movie? Where would black people be if not for the virtue of the Great White Prog? Come on man! This is made for movie stuff!
And a woman teaching “leadership classes” to boys!
The flag raising is Ic…Icon… oh you know the words! This is who we are!
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Are there rules against hanging a BLM flag at the school? If so, was she aware? If she was and chose to break the rule, let her be punished by the same rule she chose to break.
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No, there are not.
Did you read the article?
I can’t get in unless I subscribe for $4.99/month. Have you got another free link?
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I do not get that screen.
I do not subscribe.
Odd.
I do use an ad blocker…
Good for them! A teachers political views should NEVER be known to the students. Ever.

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It’s incredible to me that saying that Black Lives Matter is political speech.
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Then you need to educate yourself. This is your fault not mine. 100 percent. BLM is an anti police, Marxist organization and they freely admit it.
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The teacher claimed oppression as her reason for hanging the flag?
We’ve seen where we would be with white conservatives calling the shots.
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You are talking the organization, I am talking about the phrase.
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BLM is a political organization.
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WuWei
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You can’t separate them anymore.
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…and that’s being political. Thanks for exposing this truth. School should be politically neutral…period.
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BLM Inc is a civil rights advocacy organization.
The phrase Black live Matter can also be just a statement
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…and yet, you capitalized the B, the L and the M. You’re playing games and can’t have it both ways.
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