Termination hearing for Cobb County teacher over book | What's happened so far

Katherine Rinderle brought 'My Shadow Is Purple' to class. ----

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[kenamatchett]

A book on that subject should not have been available @the elementary school. Leave those subjects to the parents to explore. Maybe middle and high school students are mature enough for the material idk.

[TheLibTearMaker]

These are not teachers, they are groomers. Parents have the right to choose what they are being taught. Period.

[Capitol_Black_Channel]

Get her outta here. To betray the trust of parents, students and the school board there should be more severe consequences.

[lawv]

If she had just stuck to teaching math to a 5th grade math class...

[rbra]

Cobb County has some of the wimpiest kids in the state.

[graceandpeace]

'She picked up the book from her school's book fair...'interesting.

[DM-eozw]

Great to see Georgia stand up to Left-Wing teachers like this with Georgia's Divisive Concepts law.

[randallshipman]

Times being a teacher was fun growing up in the 90s now to many ussys

[robijackson]

I hope she sues the district. The book was available at the book fair. Students selected the book, but teacher is being terminated. How Sway?

[willybeama]

She literally got the book from the same school’s book fair that a student picked out. I’m a teacher and this is ridiculous. From now on I’m just going to do online books and have the kids read the books that their parents pick out. I’m not reading a fucking thing to them anymore except the dumbass textbooks.

[mjackson]

Stop hiding stuff from kids because if they don't see it in class they will see it on YouTube videos