Houston (AP). The Professor of Texas A & M University was dismissed, while others were removed from their positions after the video in which the student encountered an instructor about her teaching about questions related to the sex identity class in children’s literature.
Melissa McCoul, who was a senior lecturer in the English Department, dismissed the political Republican lawmakers, including Greg Abbott, who urged her to terminate it.
The incident prompted Glenn Hegar, Chancellor of Texas A & M University System, to order a course audit in all 12 school schools.
“It is unacceptable that the A&M System Faculty would take a personal political agenda,” Hegar said in a statement on Monday. “We were tasked with teaching new -generation teachers and childcare professionals. That responsibility should be preferred to protect children who do not pride on indoctrination. “
Mark A. Welsh III, President of Texas A & M University, said on Tuesday that he had instructed the university’s campus to dismiss McCoula, and after learning the instructors continued the content of the teaching in children’s literature courses “which did not meet any reasonable expectation for the standard course training program.”
Wales said the issue was raised earlier this summer and that “our academic leadership made it possible to understand that the content of the course must comply with the descriptions of the catalogs of each of our courses.” Wales said on Monday that this was not going on.
“It’s not about academic freedom; it’s about academic responsibility,” Wales said.
Wales also ordered the removal of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the head of the English department from their administrative duties.
The actions of Texas A&M were criticized by the faculty and the group of writers.
“We see the death of academic freedom in Texas, the transformation of universities as tools of authoritarianism that suppresses free thought,” said Jonathan Friedman, CEO of SY SY SYMS, USA’s CEO of Pen America.
The Texas branch of the American University Professor Association said that what happened at Texas A&M University should be associated with each Texan.
“Not only the integrity of academic freedom, but also the right of the faculty member’s right procedural rights were struck by urging state politicians + the governor itself,” the group said in a statement.
Disputes began on Monday after Brian Harrison, a spokesman for the Republican state, published a video, audio and other materials on the social media site X. Harrison urged the professor and Wales to be dismissed for “Dei and LGBTQ indoctrination”.
In one video, a woman and professor can be heard in arguing about sexual identity training in children’s literature class. The student and the professor are not shown and unclear when the video was made.
“It is also very contrary to me, but also for many people’s religious beliefs. So I am not going to participate in it because it is not legal and I do not want to promote what is contrary to our president’s laws, as well as my religious beliefs,” the student could hear the story in the video.
“If you are uncomfortable in this class, you have the right to leave. What we do is not illegal,” the professor said.
The student, with the professor, mentioned his executive order with his professor, signed this year by President Donald Trump, in which he said “US policy to recognize two gender, man and woman.”
September 1 The new Texas Law, which prohibits Texas K-12 schools, came into force on teaching sexual orientation or sexual identity. The new law does not apply to universities and other higher education institutions.
The Texas A&M is at the college station, about 95 miles (153 kilometers) northwest of Houston.
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