Wisconsin teacher fired after criticizing district's 'Rainbowland' ban

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/wisconsin-teacher-fired-after-criticizing-district-s-rainbowland-ban/ar-AA1dNBpw

Wisconsin teacher fired after criticizing district’s ‘Rainbowland’ ban

A teacher was fired Wednesday by the Waukesha, Wis., school board after she publicly criticized school administrators’ decision to prohibit her first-grade class from singing a song about rainbows earlier this year.

After a nearly four-hour-long hearing, the nine-member board unanimously voted to terminate the contract of Melissa Tempel, a dual-language teacher at Heyer Elementary School. In March, Tempel tweeted about her frustration with administrators who nixed the Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus song “Rainbowland,” which describes a utopia “where we’re free to be exactly who we are,” after finding it violated the district’s “controversial issues” policy. The policy, which was revised last year, defines a controversial issue as anything that “may be the subject of intense public argument, disagreement or disapproval,” “may have political, social or personal impacts” or “is likely to arouse both support and opposition in the community.”

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(Kermit says: shame on you.)