Case of teacher accused of molesting student, hiring hitman to kill victim headed to trial PJ Randhawa
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A former north St. Louis county teacher accused of molesting a student then hiring a hitman to kill the child is headed to trial.
Thursday, 38-year-old Deonte Taylor was expected in St. Louis county court for a plea hearing. Just two hours before the hearing, the I-Team learned the case will go to trial instead.
A bizarre backstory
Taylor was a teacher’s aide at Lusher Elementary School in 2015. Prosecutors say that s where he took a 7-year-old student out of class and molested him. The 2nd grader reported the abuse to the school and police.
Trial set for man accused of abuse, plan to kill witnesses
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University of Oklahoma s Anti-Racist Workshop Training Violates Free Speech, Nonprofit Says
On 6/23/21 at 8:04 PM EDT
A recent workshop put on by University of Oklahoma instructors about anti-racism raises a red flag about the state of free expression and potential indoctrination inside the classrooms of the states flagship university, a nonprofit organization focused on freedom in education says.
In a seminar entitled Anti-Racist Rhetoric & Pedagogies, three faculty members presented slides on systemic racism and addressed promoting anti-racist environments in the classroom. They also spoke about how to subvert white institutional defensiveness. But during the April 14th workshop, one of its presenters Kelli Pyron Alvarez also asserted that students in a Principles of English Composition course are often emboldened to be racist like overtly racist, she said.