student decided instead to talk to the teacher about it. this arizona law would create an affirmative legal obligation for the teacher, forcing the teacher to call the students parent and tell them. if the teacher didn t do it, it wasn t republicans said that teacher should lose his or her license and it should be okay for that teacher to be sued as an individual. during that same session, republicans also pushed legislation that would have banned folks like my angela s book, i know why the caged bird sings, or george orwell s 1984, or f scott fitzgerald s the great gatsby. they would all be banned. critics say that because the way that bill was originally crafted it would have made it illegal to teach anything at all about homosexuality. they could not say that it exists. what those two bills had in common is that to create those bills republicans in arizona consulted with the same far-right interest group called