{"id":1188016,"date":"2023-08-21T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=eeaa0b6d02500ad29b01f866159e019e"},"modified":"2023-08-21T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:48:11","slug":"fifth-grade-teacher-in-georgia-fired-for-reading-childrens-book-to-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/21\/fifth-grade-teacher-in-georgia-fired-for-reading-childrens-book-to-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth-Grade Teacher in Georgia Fired for Reading Children\u2019s Book to Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In suburban Atlanta on August 17, the Cobb County School District voted 4-3 to dismiss Katie Rinderle, a fifth-grade teacher, for reading the Scholastic-approved book &ldquo;My Shadow Is Purple.&rdquo; This decision contrasts with a prior ruling by a district tribunal, which cleared Rinderle and recommended against her termination. Georgia and several other states have enacted laws this year restricting youth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/fifth-grade-teacher-in-georgia-fired-for-reading-childrens-book-to-class\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy Shadow Is Purple\u201d is a Scholastic-approved book recommended for lower primary schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,428,405,7759,4,7535,12131,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188126,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188016\/revisions\/1188126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}