Georgia teacher fired after reading book on gender to fifth-grade class

Rinderle worked at Due West Elementary School, in Marietta, Ga., and read the storybook “My Shadow Is Purple” by Australian author Scott Stuart to her class in March.a child who reflects on his mother’s shadow being “as pink as a blossoming cherry” and his father’s shadow that’s “blue as a berry,” and says their shadow is purple. Some parents complained, although Rinderle said others had also expressed their support for the lesson.

Rinderle sought to overturn her firing, and a tribunal of retired educators, appointed by the Cobb County Board of Education,However, on Thursday the Cobb County School Board of Education voted to reject the tribunal’s decision, with three Democrats opposing the decision to fire her and four Republican lawmakers upholding it.“the Cobb County School District is very serious about the classroom being a neutral place for students to learn. A one-sided viewpoint on political, religious or social beliefs does not belong in our classrooms.”

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