nytimes.com – By Jennifer Steinhauer
Los Angeles – … But that decision, and others like it by two other teachers, led to the suspension of the three teachers by the Los Angeles Unified School District. The teachers were identified by a district spokesman on Thursday only as white men who work at Wadsworth Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles.
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The suspended teachers chose O. J. Simpson, the imprisoned former athlete; Dennis Rodman, the retired basketball player and controversy magnet; and the transvestite entertainer RuPaul, district officials said. Many other teachers chose conventional role models like President Obama.