Georgia Teacher Fired for Reading “My Shadow is Purple,” A Book About Gender Identity to Fifth Grade Class
A Cobb County, Georgia school board voted to fire a teacher for reading a book about transgenderism to her fifth-grade class.
Katie Rinderle, a fifth-grade teacher at the Cobb County School District, was fired for reading a book promoting transgenderism called “My Shadow Is Purple.”
WSBTV 2 reported:
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.
