One former educator at the meeting wondered what precedent disciplining Mick would set for the students.
“My concern, and the reason I wanted to come here tonight, was to understand, what did the teacher, and the principal do wrong? What kind of a message are we sending our children? said Jocelyn McMurray, a former Lewisville ISD substitute teacher.
“She worked through the system, she got the kids input, reviewed it, she talked to the principal, the principal approved it,” McMurray later told WFAA.
At end of May, Downing Middle School Principal Curt Martin even offered families the opportunity to get an alternate cover for the yearbook if they wanted it.
The yearbook had stickers that portrayed the culture of 2020-2021, and included two stickers attributed to the "Black Lives Matter" movement and George Floyd s death.