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Alaska high school teacher is suspended for telling Zoom class that George Floyd would still be alive if he had complied with police and sidled into their car A teacher caught on camera telling her students over Zoom that George Floyd would still be alive if he complied with police officers has been suspended The Lathrop High School teacher was talking to her students in a 15-minute video posted to YouTube about police killing black people It is unclear how the conversation started In the video...

2:49 The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has not publicly named the teacher, but a 15-minute video of the class posted online, shows a teacher identified as Ms. Gardner. Connie Gardner is a special education teacher at Lathrop. The video shows her leading a conversation about police killing black people, including the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin. Gardner does not defend Chauvin but says Floyd would be alive if he had complied with police orders. “I...

2:42 But the board’s plan does not require schools to absolutely follow the CDC’s or the state’s Smart Start guidelines for masking, social distancing and hygiene. It asks schools to meet those guidelines only “to the best of their abilities.” That has the Fairbanks Education Association president, Sandra Ryan, concerned about the safety of teachers who could be exposed to the disease. “There is just language that needs to be put into place and remind us of some of the great work w...