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>> lgbtq rights, or two sides to slavery, what are they teaching people here? >> listen, i -- when i received -- after i received that audio, i sent the district and the administrator written detailed information about what the audio showed and offered them a chance to amend or walk back that position. one of the questions we asked was, is it the districts policy that teachers should provide opposing perspectives on the holocaust? in their classroom libraries? what about other contentious issues...

Teachers training session. school administrator gina petty was taped telling teachers if they have books about the holocaust in their classroom libraries they should also have books that have, quote, opposing views of the holocaust. >> make sure if you have a book on a holocaust that you have one that has -- >> how do you -- >> believe me, that will come up. >> reporter: the audio, secretly recorded by a staff member, first reported by nbc news and obtained by cnn caused an uproar in social medi...

Cnns ed lavandera reports. >> being told to get rid of your library, or opposing viewpoints on what they called controversial subjects. >> reporter: to tell this story, this school teacher says she has to speak out under the cover of secrecy. she says she fears never being able to get a job as an educator, again. >> teachers are actively getting threats if they are speaking out at this point. threats to destroy their lives, to come for their license. to -- um -- go after their families. >> repor...

They are now in the middle of a firestorm after a top administrator was heard making these comments about the holocaust in a tape obtained by nbc news. >> make sure if you have a book on the holocaust, you have one -- >> holocaust -- >> believe me, that has come up. >> the administrator during a training session over which books teachers can have in classroom libraries which is a discussion required in texas after a ban on widely debated cultural issues. mike, thanks for being with us. first, ge...

On what they called controversial subjects. >> reporter: to tell this story, this school teacher says she has to speak out under the cover of secrecy. she says she fears never being able to get a job ass an educator, again. >> teachers are actively getting threats if they are speaking out at this point. threats to destroy their lives, to come for their license. to -- um -- go after their families. >> reporter: last week, carole independent school district administrators in the suburb of south la...

Information they could never process. we got a statement from the carmel clay schools. suite get your reaction. they have a place to dress concerns about their books and content. they chose not to do. sections of books were read at board meetings at other board meetings. they were vetted and not in school libraries. those that were are under thorough r have screen shots frm back in may. we started going, looking into this in may. we also discovered media centers, the media specialists are allowe...

>> john: this is known as pugh shaming. does this cross the line? >> absolutely a thousand percent. i obtained the list. i felt a duty to notify the parents put on the list for supposedly being against critical race theory. when i started to contact the parents the reality was the overwhelming majority of them were speaking up about reopening schools. some of them didnt even know what critical race thaoerery was. you know, they were put on the list about speaking for first amendment rights of te...