Texas school district fires 8th grade teacher for assigning Anne Frank's Diary

A longterm substitute teacher filling in for a teacher-less middle school class in Texas was fired after assigning the graphic novel version of Anne Frank's Diary to 8th grade students.

'It was brought to the administration's attention tonight that 8th grade students were reading content that was not appropriate,' said an email sent out to parents of the Hamshire-Fannett ISD, a public school district in Jefferson County, via 6KFDM. — Read the rest