<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1664638159317,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017e-bbf9-dcae-a3fe-fffdd45b0000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1664638159317,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017e-bbf9-dcae-a3fe-fffdd45b0000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_64566530", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1108832"} }); ","_id":"00000183-942a-d741-a7a7-beef7fd80000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedA substitute teacher in Georgia is suing her former employer for firing her after she asked for a religious exemption for her children.
Lindsey Barr worked at Bryan County Schools, where her children attended, when she asked that her children be excused from a library reading hour that featured a book that contradicted her personal religious beliefs, according to Fox News. In Barr’s lawsuit, she claims that within hours of her request, she was locked out of the online system that lists substitute assignments, essentially firing her from teaching again without any notice.
The book All Are Welcome centers on “a group of children through a day in their school, where everyone is welcomed with open arms. A school where students from all backgrounds learn from and celebrate each other’s traditions. A school that shows the world as we will make it to be,” according to an online listing. Barr claimed the book had images that were against her religious beliefs.
BARR: EDUCATION ‘INHERENTLY’ REQUIRES STUDENTS TO DEAL WITH RELIGION
Bryan County Schools only notified Barr that her children would be excused from the reading hour after blocking her from the system. Eventually, the principal of McCallister Elementary School, Heather Tucker, allegedly told Barr that the incident “revealed biases that raised a question whether she could support every child,” according to the lawsuit.
“The public schools have no business pushing radical ideology on our students, especially the youngest of our students,” Barr said of the matter. “They have no business doing that.”
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Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit organization, sent the district a letter in September on Barr’s behalf, criticizing it for violating her rights and demanding she be reinstated. When the organization received no response, it filed the lawsuit for Barr on Friday. Superintendent of Bryan County Schools Paul Brooksher, Tucker, and Assistant Superintendent In Learning and Teaching Trey Robertson are named in the lawsuit.
ADF recently won a similar First Amendment case on behalf of a math professor in Texas over a joke, earning him $165,000 from Texas University.
