Georgia Teacher Fired After Reading A Book With Nonbinary Character
metroweekly.comAn Atlanta-area teacher was fired after reading a children’s book featuring a nonbinary character to her fifth-grade class. In a 4-3 decision last week, the Cobb County School Board fired Katie Rinderle after she read My Shadow Is Purple to her class.
The book centers around gender nonbinary themes as a child finds that their shadow not pink like their mother’s, or blue like their father’s, but purple – a mix of the two.
She said purchased the book at a district-approved book fair earlier this year.Rinderle, who has been teaching for 10 years, is one of the first, if not the first, teacher in Georgia to be fired under a pair of laws restricting LGBTQ content in classrooms.
One of the laws is a parental rights law that explicitly grants parents the right to “direct the upbringing and the moral or religious training of their children” and review instructional materials within schools.
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