My Year of Tests and Arbitration
Ottessa Moshfegh's short story "Bettering Myself" centers around a jaded teacher, Miss Mooney, who works at a Ukrainian Catholic school. Miss Mooney, who often shows up hungover and spends time sleeping in a sleeping bag, assigns a story about "unlikable" narrators to her students. The story came under scrutiny when South Florida State College's president deemed it "morally objectionable" and "political," leading the school's teacher, Vinita Prabhakar, to be fired without pay for assigning the text.
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