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Teacher faces sacking after reading Australian book with non-binary character to class

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A teacher in the United States is fighting to keep her job after reading an Australian children’s picture book to her class.

at a school book fair and then put it in a list of options her students could choose to read back in March.My Shadow is PurpleIt was written and illustrated by Melbourne-based best-selling children’s book creator Scott Stuart and published last year.“Students just engaged in the book with me and then we discussed the message that they received,” Ms. Rinderle said in a video for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

A couple of days later her principal asked to see the book, which she said was prompted by a parent complaint.According to local media, Ms. Rinderle was placed on administrative leave during an investigation and is now facing termination, with a public termination hearing scheduled for August.FOX 5 Atlanta reported Ms. Rinderle’s lawyer Craig Goodmark said the Cobb County School District claims Ms. Rinderle violated Georgia’s Divisive Concepts Law passed in 2022.

In a statement to local media, the school district said: “Without getting into specifics of the personnel investigation, the District is confident that this action is appropriate considering the entirety of the teacher’s behavior and history. However, as this matter is ongoing, further comment is unavailable. The District remains committed to strictly enforcing all Board policy and the law.

 

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