Florida teacher got county to ban gay penguin book as indoctrination

The teacher has a history of extreme racist and homophobic statements, her former students said.

A Florida English teacher who is pushing a ban on nearly 150 books from school libraries has a history of making racist and anti-LGBTQ+ statements, according to former students.

And she just got an innocuous book on gay penguins – And Tango Makes Three – banned from county schools for “indoctrination.”

Vickie Baggett, a high school English teacher at Northview High School in Escambia County, Florida, has submitted 148 of the 150 book challenges being reviewed by the Escambia School District this year. Many of the challenged books are by Black authors or deal with LGBTQ+ topics.

Last December, Baggett told journalist Jedd Legum that she believes the books violate either the state’s “Stop Woke Act,” which aims to limit the instruction of topics related to the history of racism in the U.S., or the “Parental Rights in Education Act,” Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay Law,” which prohibits the instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in Kindergarten through third grade.

In 2015, Baggett posted a photo of…

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