On Tuesday night’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent Antonia Hylton panicked over what she described as religion in the classroom in North Texas public schools. Despite the fact that separation of church and state was written into the constitution to prevent the state from establishing an official government religion, Hylton’s guests painted it as unconstitutional to have religion in schools at all.
a growing number of teachers are quitting across the country over low pay and burnout. but in one state, they re leaving for another reason. nbc s antonia hilton joins me. tell me more. well, we re seeing this happen across the country, but when you talk to teachers in texas, they say that it s politics. we sat down with one teacher who says that her dream job became a nightmare. take a look. on the same day that high school english teacher emily ramser won an award for being an outstanding texas educator, she stood in front of the grapevine colleyville schoolteacher to tell them why she was one of the dozens of staff members resigning this year. this community has harassed to the point there were days i didn t want to be alive anymore, much less be a teacher.