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https://firstfocus.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Untitled-design-1.jpg600262Last month, a Texas teacher was fired for assigning a novel based on Anne Frank’s diary. Across the country, teachers are losing their jobs because of the culture wars. As of last year, at least 160 educators had been fired, according to analysis by the Washington Post, for reasons such as displaying gay pride symbols in their classrooms, saying that white privilege is a fact, assigning readings acknowledging different viewpoints, and hanging up Black Lives Matter flags. Becky Pringle, President of the National Education Association, commented that “our educators are being caught in the crosshairs of the culture wars.” Teachers are “trying to do what’s right for their students,” she added, but are “being verbally attacked and blamed.”