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ATLANTA — The firing of a Georgia teacher who read a book on gender
fluidity to her fifth grade class was upheld Thursday by the Georgia
Board of Education.

Katie Rinderle had been a teacher for 10 years when she got into
trouble in March for reading the picture book “My Shadow Is Purple”
by Scott Stuart at Due West Elementary School, after which some
parents complained.

The case in suburban Atlanta’s Cobb County drew wide attention as a
test of what public school teachers can teach in class, how much a
school system can control teachers and whether parents can veto
instruction they dislike. It also came amid a nationwide
conservative backlash to books and teaching about LGBTQ subjects in
school.

Rinderle has maintained that the book was about inclusivity. She was
fired in August, and filed an appeal the next month.

At their meeting Thursday, the state board voted unanimously to
affirm the Cobb County School Board’s decision without discussing
it, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Cobb County adopted a rule barring teaching on controversial issues
in 2022, after Georgia lawmakers earlier that year enacted laws
barring the teaching of “divisive concepts” and creating a parents’
bill of rights. Rinderle’s attorneys said a prohibition of
“controversial issues” is so vague that teachers can never be sure
what’s banned.

In its 21-page review, the board found that Cobb County’s policies
are not “unconstitutionally vague,” and that her firing was not a “predetermined outcome.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/georgia-board-upholds- firing-teacher-reading-book-gender-identity-fift-rcna140084

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