Here’s an interview with Katie Rinderle, the teacher in Cobb County, Georgia fired under the state’s “divisive concepts” law for reading from a book teaching tolerance.
She was fired on the basis of one complaint from a parent (who is also a teacher in the school system).
The interview was conducted by Rebecca Gaunt.
The “divisive content” law basically forbids teaching about the history of racism in the U.S. and in Georgia, and in presenting LGBTQ people and issues in a positive light.
As far as we can determine, this is the first time the law’s been used to fire a teacher in Georgia, so the Cobb County School District is once again staking out a position of encouraging bigotry and gratuitous cruelty.
Within the period of a few years the district has refused to discuss renaming a school named for a Confederate general, trampled on discussions of racism, voted to create an agenda process that required any Black board member to line up a white sponsor to even get on the agenda, was cited for violating the rights of a disabled student, and now this.