Many teachers are either woke, radical, stupid, lazy, creepy, or all of the above. However, there is almost always at least one educator in high school who genuinely cares about their students and loves what they do, making them very popular with students.

Matthew Mastronardi is one of those teachers. Yet, for reasons that seem neither logical nor in the best interest of students, his board of education has decided to fire him over words they dislike in classic literature.

Mastronardi read a sentence from To Kill a Mockingbird to his students, which included the n-word. He simply read it aloud because that was the sentence in the book. The story should have ended there. However, in a political move to signal virtue, the board has decided this is a fireable offense, even though he did nothing wrong.

Thus, the students are rallying behind him.

According to KHQ:

The West Valley School Board unanimously voted not to renew the contract of West Valley High School Spanish teacher Matthew Mastronardi. This decision followed Mastronardi's admission of reading a passage from "To Kill a Mockingbird" aloud in class, which included the n-word.

While dozens of people including students spoke on behalf of Mastronardi some parents urged the board not to renew the contract stating that reading the passage was inappropriate for a Spanish class and failed to consider the discomfort it might cause some students.

The most disrespectful part was that the board didn’t even bother to discuss the matter. They treated it as nothing more than a procedural agenda item, like approving an overnight field trip or school lunch.

Before the vote, school board members explained that the English Department had discussed how to handle the passage appropriately. They acknowledged the book's literary significance but stated that reading the word aloud was unnecessary.

You can’t just shield students from certain words simply to stand on a moral high ground that doesn’t actually exist. What’s even more comical is that these same people act as if they don’t hear those words in literally every song these days.

Progressives dislike the classics because they can’t even begin to comprehend their complexities. So, to dumb down the next generation, a popular teacher is being fired for reasons that will never put them on the right side of history.

That being said, something tells me this guy will be okay in the end, and we shall wait and see.

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