Posted on 06/27/2023 9:22:22 AM PDT by george76
A teacher in the United States is fighting to keep her job after reading an Australian children’s picture book to her class.
Katie Rinderle says she bought My Shadow is Purple at a school book fair and then put it in a list of options her students could choose to read back in March.
The fifth-grade class – usually aged 10 or 11 – at Due West Elementary in Georgia chose My Shadow is Purple, which centers around a non-binary character.
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Ms. Rinderle was placed on administrative leave during an investigation and is now facing termination, with a public termination hearing scheduled for August.
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Ms. Rinderle’s lawyer Craig Goodmark said the Cobb County School District claims Ms. Rinderle violated Georgia’s Divisive Concepts Law passed in 2022.
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In Australia, the book’s author was disgusted by the ordeal.
“The teacher is fighting the termination but this whole thing just really goes to show how much more interested the school system in the US is in playing politics than they are in educating kids,” Mr. Stuart said in a video posted to social media. “It’s gross. It’s disgusting.”
According to Southern Poverty Law Center,
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the teacher had bought the book at her school’s book fair.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
PLAYING POLITICS??? Who started this in the first place by writing trash and putting inappropriate books in our PUBLIC schools? It was 100% political by the leftist communist trash to destroy nuclear families and foment the revolution.
"Educating kids"??? By having them read sexual trash that takes the place of the basics in math, reading and science? That is not the "education" we want our kids to have.
“My Dad has a shadow that’s blue as a berry, and my Mom’s is as pink as a blossoming cherry. There’s only those choices, a 2 or a 1. But mine is quite different, it’s both and it’s none”
Why lie to kids? Why set them up to be victims? Why make a path that leads to alienation seem cool? Put ideas in their heads they never would have had?
Using the word “non-binary” is heterophobic and offensive.
Scott Stuart is father to a six-year-old boy who loves all things Queen Elsa and princesses. Their story of dressing up as Elsa together became a social media phenomenon. Having worked at The Royal Children’s Hospital, he has seen how important it is for children to feel represented and is committed to creating stories of empowerment.
It’s as Vladimir Lenin said:
1. Give me a child for the first five years of his life and he will be mine forever
2. Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
3. Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
She should be fired, then run out of town. Enough of this bullshit.
It’s reality-phobic.
She/it couldn’t find an American children’s book with a non-binary character to read to her/their class?
To get to Due West, find Lost Mountain and head north.
>>“Students just engaged in the book with me and then we discussed the message that they received,” Ms. Rinderle said
“The message that they received” is the problem. If parents tell you not to groom their children, don’t groom their children.
10-11 year olds SHOULD be able to read by themselves !!!!!!!
Sorry teacher, you knew it would be controversial and did it anyway. Time to pay up.
The fifth-grade class – usually aged 10 or 11 – at Due West Elementary in Georgia chose My Shadow is Purple, which centers around a non-binary character.
The kids "CHOSE" that book ...... SURE They did!
Fire Her now ... Nip the Problem in the bud!
Katie Rinderle says she bought My Shadow is Purple at a school book fair and then put it in a list of options her students could choose to read back in March.
Choice from a predetermined list is not really choice, is it?
What were the other “choices”? Fun with Bananas? Zucchini Tales? Dickie’s Dick Drips?
I hope they burn her good.
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