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"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 centres around a non-binary
character.
It was written and illustrated by Melbourne-based best-selling children’s book
creator Scott Stuart and published last year.
“Students just engaged in the book with me and then we discussed the message
that they received,” Ms Rinderle said in a video for the Southern Poverty Law
Center.
“That’s what our conversation really was focusing on was the power of not only
embracing your unique differences and abilities, but then valuing those in
others and learning from those.”
A couple of days later her principal asked to see the book, which she said was
prompted by a parent complaint.
According to local media, Ms Rinderle was placed on administrative leave during
an investigation and is now facing termination, with a public termination
hearing scheduled for August."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
