Florida AG demands teacher's firing over alleged harassment of conservative student

In Sarasota County, Florida, a dispute over a history teacher's classroom conduct has drawn the state's Attorney General into a confrontation over the boundaries of political speech, parental authority, and student dignity. Attorney General James Uthmeier alleges that Pine View School teacher Liz Ballard singled out an eighth-grade student for harassment because of his conservative views — labeling him a 'misogynist' and pressing him into political debates his parents had explicitly forbidden. The case arrives at a moment when American schools are still searching for the line between civic edu