Mary Wood, a teacher at Chapin High School, at her home on Thursday, November 16, 2023. Joshua Boucher [email protected] When teacher Mary Wood stepped back into the classroom this semester ...

As Wood pulled into the Chapin High parking lot on Aug. 7, her stomach twisted. ... Mary Wood’s school reprimanded her for teaching a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

CHAPIN, S.C. — Mary Wood walked between the desks in her AP English Language and Composition classroom, handing out copies of the book she was already punished once for teaching. Twenty-six ...

Former teacher Patrick Funk high-fives another supporter of Mary Wood, a teacher at Chapin High School, during a board meeting of the Lexington-Rchland 5 school board on Monday, July 17, 2023.

Mary is an English teacher at Chapin High School in Chapin, South Carolina. As originally reported in The State, she assigned Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me,” a nonfiction book about the ...

Wood, 47, who grew up in Chapin and attended the school where she teaches, felt like an outsider in her hometown. But this year, she was determined things would be different.

COLUMBIA — Political mailers supporting conservative Lexington-Richland Five school board candidates name and picture a Chapin High School teacher whose lesson on a Ta-Nehisi Coates book was ...

AP English teacher Mary Wood was once punished for having her class read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ acclaimed book “Between The World and Me.” Last year, two students in Wood’s class at Chapin High ...

School district leaders have given differing explanations after a Chapin High School teacher's lesson on a book about racism was stopped after it triggered complaints in the Lexington-Richland 5 ...

Mary Wood, an English teacher at Chapin High School, had been asked to discontinue assigning the book to her advanced students after several of them complained to a board member that his polemical ...

South Carolina teacher Mary Wood has been accused of teaching 'indoctrination ... Mary Wood is an advanced English language teacher in Chapin High School located in Lexington-Richland County ...

Once again the Chapin High School boys basketball team is in the conversation for a Class 5A state championship and the favorite to be El Paso's best chance to go deep in the Texas UIL playoffs ...