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Brazil: Teacher Fired for Denouncing Precarious Classrooms on Facebook

· Written by Sara Moreira

Categories: Latin America, Brazil, Digital Activism, Education, Freedom of Speech, Protest

Photo by teacher Uiliene Rosa shared 1,140 times on Facebook. [1]

Students using umbrellas inside the classroom (October 12, 2012). Photo by teacher Uiliene Rosa shared 1,140 times on Facebook.



After having used social networks to complain about precarious classrooms in a school in Imperatriz, state of Maranhão, Brazil, teacher Uiliene Rosa was fired [2] [pt]. A few days after, the Mayor said he would revoke [3] [pt] the decision.