![]() ![]() ![]() 23 with the principal, Tucker, and Debi McNeal, director of human resources for the school district. “The next thing that I heard from the school was from the human resources director asking me to come in for a face-to-face meeting in regard to my role as a substitute teacher,” Barr told The Daily Signal.īarr met Aug. She emailed the principal, asking whether she had been removed as a substitute teacher, but did not hear back. Not long after the conversation, Barr said, she tried to log into the online portal the school uses for substitute teachers to pick up more work. The call ended and Barr said she felt like everything “was fine.” The principal agreed that her sons didn’t need to participate in the story time, Barr recalled. The mother says she was clear that she wasn’t asking for the book to be removed from the school, only that her children not be exposed to the content. The two had a phone call the following day, and Barr expressed her concerns over the pictures in the book.īarr says she explained to the principal that she and her husband would like to be the ones having conversations with their kids about issues such as same-sex marriage, rather than the school. Later that day, Barr emailed Heather Tucker, principal of McAllister Elementary School, and asked to talk with her. 16, Barr spoke with her 6-year-old son’s teacher and asked that he not be a part of the story time where the book was to be read. And was against those beliefs,” said Barr, who previously worked as a full-time teacher for a decade in Bryan County public schools. “I want to be able to instill what I think is biblically correct for marriage and family. Illustration by Suzanne Kaufman, from the book “All Are Welcome” by Alexandra Penfold. The book’s colorful pictures include depictions of same-sex couples taking their children to school and two lesbian mothers, one of whom is pregnant. “I actually thought that the theme of the book was great, kindness, … including everyone,” Barr, 37, told The Daily Signal during a phone interview Thursday, “but the images, the illustrations, are contrary to what we believe for traditional marriage and families.” In August, Barr learned that McAllister Elementary School, where her first- and third-grade sons attend and where she sometimes works, planned to have the book “All Are Welcome” read during a “read aloud” story time in the school library. All her children attend public school in Bryan County, Georgia, about 30 miles southwest of Savannah, where she also works as a substitute teacher. ![]() Lindsey Barr was fired from her substitute teaching job after expressing concern over the content of a book in the school library.īarr is a mother of three boys. ![]()
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