Commack Educator Sues District, Board Of Ed, For $80M: Reports

Commack NY

16 November, 2021

1:21 PM

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COMMACK, NY — A Commack schools administrator sued the district and board of education for $80 million, Newsday reported. Charles Schulz claims in a lawsuit that district leaders got rid of his job as director of Secondary English when he opposed the removal of the award-winning book "Persepolis" from the district's required reading list last summer, according to Newsday. Schulz is currently listed as associate principal of Sawmill Intermediate School on the Commack schools website. "Persepolis" is an autobiographical series by Marjane Satrapi that is a "graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution," according to the book's Amazon listing. Some considered the novel to be racist and part of the critical race theory curriculum, News 12 Brooklyn reported. Schulz argued at a June administrators' meeting that "Persepolis" should be kept on the reading list before he was transferred, Newsday reported.