Firing Teacher for Mentioning Racial Epithets in "Cultural Diversity" Class May Violate Connecticut Constitution

Firing Teacher for Mentioning Racial Epithets in "Cultural Diversity" Class May Violate Connecticut Constitution

From a decision earlier this month in Byrd v. Middletown Bd. of Ed., by Connecticut trial court Judge Sheila Ozalis; Byrd was a teacher who "was teaching a lesson on 'recognizing racial epithets' as a part of the Cultural Diversity Curriculum at Beman Middle School": The plaintiff alleges that from 1997–2021, she taught eighth grade students about the District's Cultural Diversity Curriculum, along with other units in the eighth grade Health Cur…