Teacher fired for asking student to engage in critical thinking is ‘absolutely insane’

Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power discusses the firing of a teacher who questioned a student’s claim that author J.K. Rowling was a transphobe and bigot. A teacher was fired after his video went viral on X, where he gently challenged a student’s stance on whether Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is a transphobe and bigot. “It’s absolutely insane, isn’t it the point of education is to teach the next generation how to think critically,” Ms Power told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “Hopefully, this teacher will receive a lot of support and go on to bigger and better things and will continue to educate people in some way.” “He was so careful language when he was being asked about JK Rowling he was pointing out some pretty fair points.”