This teacher is one of my past teachers whom I still keep contact with, my little brother and a lot of my friends had her before this crap happened.
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A New Mexico high school teacher has left her job after a student rewrote the biblical story about Jesus handing out bread and fish to the poor into a narrative about Jesus handing out marijuana to the sick.
Katrina Guarascio, a creative writing teacher at Cleveland High School in the Albuquerque suburb of Rio Rancho, had assigned students to take a fairy tale or legend and rewrite it in modern times.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStor...story-27477695
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Now a teacher at the school is off the job.
“I love teaching,” said creative writing teacher Katrina Guarascio. “I’m not there to judge them. I’m there to encourage them.”...“I don't take any personal offense. It's not written for me. It's written for them. It's how they can express themselves,” said Guarascio.
But according to the teacher, during peer review, one of the other students got highly offended by the story and told her parents. And then the teacher was put on administrative leave while the district investigated. Guarascio said she felt targeted, harassed and forced to resign. She has one last message for her students:
“If they have something to say, say it,” Guarascio said. “Not everyone's going to agree with you. But that doesn't make your point invalid or worthless. Tell your story.”
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http://m.koat.com/news/creative-writ...urce=hootsuite 
This woman was one of my favorite teachers ever, she cared about her job and students, it never felt like she was just there to feed us information. When this all went down, the school would not let any of the teachers or admin talk about it to the students. Many people at the school and her past students like me started fighting for her but the only choice they gave her was to either quit or be terminated at the end of her contract with remaining teaching time to be heavily restricted and monitored.
The principal of the school and head of the district totally beat her morale down.
her official tag is #spitfreespeech