ramona basinger, thank you so much for coming on.t the school district was teaching that you objected to. >> first of all i would just like to say that in all my years in an educator, i've seen anything like this. sometime around last january, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of books rolled into my classroom as well as educators all throughout the district and immediately i knew something wasn't right. the covers of the books were bizarre, they were cartoonlike pamphlet style, very thin. they all had the same narrative it was just strange. not to mention the quality of the books, the rigor wasn't there. the moment i started asking questions, the moment i started probing and asking why we were teaching these books as opposed to vetted literary material that was it. i was public enemy number one. you know, i could not do anything right. i was brought to task onu absolutely everything. it was just ridiculous.ic and rather than cower and be silent, i decided i was going to get louder and that is exactly what i did. someone told me abo