After cultivating a career as a reporter, she made a quick transition to educator while participating in a boot camp the LAUSD hosted for people looking to change careers. She even learned to read Spanish by combing through her father’s issues of La Opinión. Growing up in a family that organized themselves around a nightly news ritual, Chavira knew she wanted to be a journalist by the eighth grade. “There are a lot of unanswered questions,” she says. And though the suspension’s lift brought massive feelings of relief, it also did little to assuage Chavira’s confusion. Could the librarian named in the article be considering a lawsuit? Was this an effort of self-protection on the district’s part? She wonders but does not know. When the suspension finally came, Chavira says, she was frustrated and confused that the district could so clearly violate the law. “But even one day would not be justified because I knew what I was doing was within the law.” “The three-day suspension was shorter than I expected,” Chavira tells LAMag. Goliath struggle against student censorship.Ĭhavira estimates that it was in May when she first heard the suspension would come, a decision that hinged on her refusal to take down a student article naming an unvaccinated school librarian, and she says the district’s decision still looms over her. The decision marked a victory for Chavira, whose story quickly gained national attention as a David vs. The Los Angeles Unified School District rescinded Daniel Pearl Magnet High School journalism teacher Adriana Chavira’s suspension on Friday.
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