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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 district's policy that teachers should provide opposing perspectives on the holocaust? in their classroom libraries? what about other contentious issues, should there be two perspectives on slavery? should there be two perspectives on racism? and the ...

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 media and concern among groups that monitor hate and extremism. >> idea that opposing views of the holoc...

Cnn's 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. >> reporter: last week, carole independent school district administrators in the suburb of south lake, texa...

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, get into this texas law that has educators going through their libraries.

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 lake, texas, held training sessions laying out the guidelines teachers needed to follow to pick the bo...