Florida Professor Fired for Teaching Racial Justice
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Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida has fired English professor Sam Joeckel after a parent complained that he was "indoctrinating" students with lessons about racial justice. Joeckel, who has taught at the Christian university for two decades, said he has long included teachings about racial justice in his writing composition course and that administrators had never expressed concerns about them before. Joeckel has hired an attorney and may fight his termination in court.
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