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Iowa teacher fired for telling students Huckleberry Finn is ‘racist’
A teacher in Iowa has reportedly been fired for telling students that Mark Twain‘s classic American novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was “racist”. Naiya Galloway, a 31-year-old teaching associate at a private school in Dubuque, Iowa, is alleged to have told a classroom of students last October that the…
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