Fifth grade students in Katie Rinderle’s class at Due West Elementary School in Cobb County had mixed reactions after reading a book called “My Shadow is Purple,” which challenges gender norms, in ...

An elementary school teacher in Georgia has been fired for reading a “divisive” book about acceptance to her 5th-grade class. She bought the book, My Shadow is Purple, at the school’s own Scholastic ...

A Georgia school district fired a veteran teacher after parents balked at her reading a picture book about gender identity to a class of fifth graders. The Cobb County School Board voted 4-3 Thursday ...

Last week, the Cobb County School Board voted 4-3 to fire Katie Rinderle after she read the book “My Shadow is Purple" aloud in class Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP A Georgia teacher ...

A three-person tribunal has recommended against the firing of a Georgia teacher who is at risk of being terminated after reading a book about gender identity to her fifth grade class, according to the ...