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Suzanne Goldenberg/GuardianBlog:
US teacher is suspended for letting pupils read bestseller

An Indiana teacher who used a much lauded bestseller, The Freedom Writers Diary, to try to inspire under-performing high-school students has been suspended from her job without pay for 18 months.
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"She knew she had defied her supervisors' direction in her work and that her defiance was 'insubordination' and 'neglect of duty'."

Also see: LATBlog: Taking the freedom out of 'Freedom Writers'.