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HISD teachers blame errors like an eight-grade handout, meant as a reading assignment, suggesting promiscuous scenarios on superintendent Mike Miles.A school handout meant to be distributed to eighth-grade students as a reading assignment has Houston ISD teachers sounding an alarm.
The text is a portion of "Gather Together In My Name" by Maya Angelou. The excerpt, meant for eighth graders, is being questioned as it depicts a scene between a man and a woman in a hotel room. "How are you going to justify this to a parent?" Corina Ortiz, with the Houston Federation of Teachers Union, asked.
"We have teachers that have called and said of the curriculum that they sent me for this week is wrong. I have to go back and make adjustments and make it correct so that way when I put it on my board, it's going to come out looking like it's professional and it's correct," Ortiz said.
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