“Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class.”
Randi Weingarten
president of the American Teachers Federation. an X post. Claim dated 20 Sep 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
A Texas teacher was fired for assigning eighth grade students to read from a graphic illustration adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary, which the district said was not approved.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Randi Weingarten (president of the American Teachers Federation) made this claim around 20 September 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 September 2023, 8 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://web.archive.org/web/20230921144527/https://twitter.com/rweingarten/status/1704457…
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