Katie Rinderle
Posted on 08/18/2023 4:01:58 AM PDT by jacknhoo
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The Cobb County School Board voted to terminate a teacher after she read a book about gender norms to her fifth-grade class.
In a board meeting Thursday evening, the board voted 4-3 to fire Katie Rinderle.
Rinderle, a longtime educator in the Cobb County School District, read a book called “My Shadow is Purple,” a book about gender norms.
The termination comes a week after a tribunal proceeding was held to decide if she would keep, or lose, her job. The tribunal determined that she did violate part of Georgia’s new divisive concepts law, but they recommended that she be able to keep her job.
Rinderle told the three-person tribunal she believes the book is “appropriate” because it encourages children to be true to themselves.
According to a statement from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Rinderle was removed from her classroom in March after a parent complained about her reading the ‘My Shadow is Purple’ book to students.
Superintendent Chris Ragsdale recommended the termination of the teacher.
Ragsdale claimed the book “violated Georgia’s 2022 classroom censorship law banning so-called divisive concepts, mostly about race, even though legal advocates say the law is vague and contradicts the U.S. Constitution.”
“I am disappointed in the district’s decision to terminate me for reading an inclusive and affirming book — one that is representative of diverse student identities,” Rinderle said. “The district is sending a harmful message that not all students are worthy of affirmation in being their unapologetic and authentic selves. This decision, based on intentionally vague policies, will result in more teachers self-censoring in fear of not knowing where the invisible line will be drawn. Censorship perpetuates harm and students deserve better.”
In the statement from SPLC, Attorney Craig Goodmark claimed there was no legitimate explanation for the termination.
Mike Tafelski, senior supervising attorney for children’s rights at the SPLC, said they are disappointed in the decision.
Channel 2′s Veronica Griffin spoke with Jeff Hubbard, president of Cobb County Association of Educators. He said the school board’s decision essentially puts all Georgia teachers on notice.
“If you do anything that angers well-connected parents. Whether it’s intentional or not an investigation can be rushed against you and you can lose your job,” he said.
“gender norms” AKA trans indoctrination.
From Amazon about the book: “A heartwarming and inspiring book about being true to yourself and moving beyond the gender binary, by the bestselling author of My Shadow Is Pink.”
1 woke down and out of the classroom, thousands to go. And they wonder why home schooling and private schools are becoming more popular.
“According to a statement from the Southern Poverty Law Center . . .”
That’s all anyone needs to hear. Notice how the story never tells what is in the offending book. It just quotes the fired propagandist and the SPLC. This story was an obvious press release from the SPLC.
The kids would be better off learning what’s binary or non-binary from computer programmers, not hedonists.
Yup, it’s leftist degeneracy garbage. She’s right to be fired.
Another article from the previous hearing:
Georgia teacher grilled over book illustrating gender roles in test of ‘divisive concepts’ law
BY: ROSS WILLIAMS - AUGUST 11, 2023
Excerpts:
“The district also said Rinderle admonished students for referring to the protagonist with he/him pronouns and said they should use they/them pronouns. Rinderle denied that she admonished students, saying she suggested using those pronouns during a discussion before reading the book.”
“The district found Miss Rinderle to be adversarial, deceptive, disingenuous,” he said. “It was very difficult for us to believe that she would continue to insist the book wasn’t about the topic and about gender identity or gender fluidity. (She) did not once take any personal accountability. It was the students selecting the book, they selected the book, so it’s not my fault. It was the school’s fault for having the book fair and it being part of the book fair. There was not a point where she accepted that as the teacher, she would be responsible for anything that entered that classroom.”
The SPLC is a ‘hate’ group.
I've never seen any such reports...
So kids that want to become cops or soldiers can bring toy guns to school again, like they used to? I'll bet teach would be strongly adverse to those kids being, "true to themselves."
why is a “teacher” reading a book based on the notion of interchangeable human sexes when the sole function of a teacher is to teach the three R’s? how did this mixed up person get a teaching license and teaching position in the first place? LONG past time to vet the vetters that seem to only want the perverts teaching. small wonder they dont want the parents involved.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center”......
I feel a need to go brush my teeth... (spit)
I had to read most of the article to understand what “gender norms” meant. I can’t imagine my fifth-grade teacher reading something like that to our class.
Apparently today, the sole purpose of public school teachers is to teach perversions, anti-White racism, grooming, perversity, anti-White racism, Marxism, perversions, more anti-White racism, sex acts, more Marxism, and Climate Change.
But reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic ? That’s so 1950s.
So the students run the classes. Silly me: I thought the teachers decided the curriculum.
“Gender” is a term associated with grammar. It has no relevance to persons. The word “transgender” is meaningless when dealing with words and even more idiotic when attempts are made to use it in referring to the sex of males and females.
After being informed of this, any teacher who still applies gender to persons in the classroom is hopelessly woketardian and should be fired.
Fifth graders would understand books on environmental regulations or corporate contract law just as well as gender diversity. I bet most of the kids were looking around the room wondering which boys weren’t boys or girls weren’t’ girls.
“will result in more teachers self-censoring in fear of not knowing where the invisible line will be drawn.”
...”invisible line”?! XX and XY is very visible ya putz.
crap like this in schools. reason why we are reaping the propaganda initiative in public education today
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