A Georgia fifth-grade public school teacher took the stand in an effort to save her job after she was fired for reading her students a book on gender identity.
Officials with the Cobb County School District will continue a two-day termination hearing Friday to determine if a fifth grade teacher violated Georgia’s recently passed divisive concepts law.
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A Georgia public school teacher took the stand Thursday trying to reverse her firing after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class. Katie Rinderle had been a teacher for 10 years when she got into trouble in March for reading the picture book “My Shadow Is Purple" at Due West Elementary School in suburban Atlanta’s Cobb County. The case has drawn wide attention as a test of what public school teachers can teach in class, how much a school system can