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Substitute teacher urges district to change curriculum and discipline approach during public comment
Summary
At the Knox County Schools Board meeting, Mia Denise Brown, a recent substitute teacher, criticized how evolution is taught and described repeated student misbehavior. She urged the district to stop teaching evolution and suggested a nonsectarian Bible study class; board members did not take action during the meeting.
Mia Denise Brown, a substitute teacher who said she worked in the district for 10 years until March, used her public comment time to criticize district instruction on human origins and to describe widespread student misbehavior in classrooms.
Brown told the board she encountered a student who asserted humans "came from monkeys" and said the exchange left her concerned about…
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