The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted Thursday to decide in March whether to revoke the license of a former Norman Public Schools teacher’s state license .
The board voted to hold a hearing on March 28 to consider revoking Summer Boismier’s teaching license. Boismier was a teacher at Norman High School. Her attorney, Brady Henderson, said the move was expected.
“Today’s vote is not the revocation itself,” Henderson said.
In August 2022, Boismier resigned from Norman High School to protest House Bill 1775 , a state law limiting classroom discussions on race and gender. In her classroom, Boismier covered the shelves with red butcher paper with a sign written in black marker that read “books the state doesn’t want you to read.” She also posted a QR code to the Brooklyn Public Library, which gives students online access to banned books.
State schools Superintendent Ryan Walters said Boismier was attempting to indoctrinate students with a “liberal political agenda” and asked that her teaching license be permanently revoked. Although Boismier said she did not endorse any particular book, state officials alleged some of the books in the library catalog contained explicit sexual content and racist concepts.