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Georgia School Fires Teacher for Expressing Concern About Children’s Book
Alliance Defending Freedom ^ | October, 21, 2022 | Staff

Posted on 10/24/2022 3:23:26 PM PDT by HKMk23

Lindsey Barr is a mother of three children who attend Bryan County Schools in Georgia. For 10 years, Lindsey served as a full-time teacher with Bryan County Schools, where she received excellent reviews, earning a rating of exemplary on almost all performance criteria.

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At the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, Lindsey learned of a book that was going to be read to every class as a part of a new read-aloud program at the school’s library. This book was called All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold. The publisher’s website describes the book as, “A bright and uplifting celebration of cultural diversity and belonging, where all children are welcome in the classroom.” Among other things, it includes illustrations of same-sex couples parenting and expecting children.

This book caused Lindsey concern because it contained depictions that conflict with Lindsey’s sincerely held religious views on marriage and family. She believes the book is inappropriate for young children and that it appeared to be part of an effort to indoctrinate young children into a progressive ideology.

In August, Lindsey brought her concerns as a teacher and parent to the school principal and asked that her own children be excused from this reading time. The very next day, Lindsey was unable to access the Bryan County Schools portal she used to accept substitute teaching assignments. Five days later, she was informed by the school that they had terminated her ability to substitute at any Bryan County School.

(Excerpt) Read more at adflegal.org ...


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Yet another egregious abuse by School District Administrators. My fervent hope -- the NECESSARY result, here, and elsewhere -- is that this case will be prosecuted to a seven-figure civil damages settlement.

Leftists and other assorted morons in government will NEVER STOP this sort of crap UNTIL it gets so damnably expensive that THEY decide it's too risky.

1 posted on 10/24/2022 3:23:26 PM PDT by HKMk23
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To: HKMk23

All Are Welcome - you’re fired!


2 posted on 10/24/2022 3:32:59 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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Leftists and other assorted morons in government will NEVER STOP this sort of crap UNTIL it gets so damnably expensive that THEY decide it's too risky.

Too expensive? It's not like these miscreants pay out of their own pockets!

Indeed, soaking the taxpayers furthers their agenda...

3 posted on 10/24/2022 3:33:43 PM PDT by null and void (← Not delusional, just differently realitied...)
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To: HKMk23

Anytime an organization uses a phrase like “should be celebrating!”, lookout.


4 posted on 10/24/2022 3:33:48 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: HKMk23

All Are Welcome.... except Conservatives.


5 posted on 10/24/2022 3:34:24 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: HKMk23

They blocked outside comments on most of their FB posts but they missed a few.


6 posted on 10/24/2022 3:38:01 PM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: HKMk23

..and the PURGE continues. Also happening in just about every other institution, including our military.


7 posted on 10/24/2022 3:38:24 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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Sue for civil rights infringement?...

Any lawyers here?


8 posted on 10/24/2022 3:38:43 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: HKMk23

I find the excerpt a bit confusing. It says she taught full time for 10 years but she now seems to be a substitute teacher. If she’s a substitute, I don’t see where she has any recourse to the district’s not letting her sub.

I understand why she objected to the book and why she doesn’t want her kids exposed to it. But she cannot demand the school district to call her up when they need a substitute. It’s not a case of her being fired, she’s just not going to be hired in the future.


9 posted on 10/24/2022 3:39:16 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: HKMk23

As I commented in an earlier thread on this, this is a rural county that went 71% for Trump. Something is rotten in the county school system administration and school board, and people best be paying attention.


10 posted on 10/24/2022 3:42:10 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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At least they didn’t send a SWAT team to her house and arrest her for being a domestic terrorist. Or perhaps that is coming next.


11 posted on 10/24/2022 3:43:19 PM PDT by teacherwoes (I am Philip Nolan )
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To: null and void

Soaking the taxpayers eventually wakes the taxpayers up to how leftists are exposing them to repeated soakings.

When you awaken to how eating regularly and living with indoor plumbing and heating are important in your life, your pocketbook starts to dominate your politics, and you begin to take an increasingly dim view of so-called “public servants” whose politically-motivated dumb@#$ery makes your life more expensive, and start voting differently.


12 posted on 10/24/2022 3:51:21 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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The way things are going, she’ll be dragged in to be grilled by the Jan 6 Committee.


13 posted on 10/24/2022 3:54:04 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: lee martell
Celebrate Perversity... I mean Diversity!

(sorry for saying the quiet thing out loud)

14 posted on 10/24/2022 3:56:40 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/24/dod-is-forging-a-woke-k-12-army-with-race-and-sex-indoctrination-in-military-schools/


15 posted on 10/24/2022 4:02:43 PM PDT by combat_boots ( )
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To: FreedomPoster

I swear the left looks for rural counties, moves a few leftists in to take over the school boards and have them hire leftist principals. Over a few years all the conservative teachers are pushed out the door and replaced by the freshly graduated “woke” indoctrinating teachers. It’s important that conservatives take over the school boards and then start taking back the education of the children. Florida conservatives, led by DeSantis made a good start there this year.


16 posted on 10/24/2022 4:07:12 PM PDT by CFW
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To: hanamizu

You have it backward: Lindsey was HIRED to be on a hot list of Approved substitutes ready at a moment’s notice to accept open needs in District schools; it’s like being on call, you’re retained and available fairly instantly, as no hiring process could hope to fill the kinds of emergent vacancies that arise weekly in classrooms across the District. My own Mother was a Substitute Teacher for many years, so I know this process pretty well.

So, Lindsey was indeed illegally fired — summarily, and without notification — for exercising Constitutionally protected rights. The District is liable to get shish kebabbed for Title VII violations.


17 posted on 10/24/2022 4:07:36 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: HKMk23

Bryan County is down near Savannah, just north of Ft. Stewart, if anyone’s wondering.


18 posted on 10/24/2022 4:11:37 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

May as well call a Spade a Spade!


19 posted on 10/24/2022 4:23:09 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: HKMk23

All are not welcome.


20 posted on 10/24/2022 4:52:33 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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