A school district in Georgia settled a lawsuit and agreed to reinstate a substitute teacher after she was fired for expressing concern over the drawings in a picture book that was shown to elementary students.
Bryan County Schools has agreed to rehire Lindsey Barr and pay $181,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees after school officials fired her for raising alarm about a picture book that was shown to kindergartners, including her own children, at the McAllister Elementary School read-aloud program.
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The book, “All Are Welcome,” reportedly contains several illustrations of same-sex couples parenting and expecting children. Barr asked the school’s principal if her children could be excused from the reading hour because she said the book contradicted her religious beliefs.
“The public schools have no business pushing radical ideology on our students, especially the youngest of our students,” Barr previously told Fox News Digital. “They have no business doing that.”
Within hours of speaking with the principal, Barr was locked out of the district’s online system and later notified that her children would be excused from the reading hour, according to the lawsuit. Heather Tucker, the principal of McCallister Elementary School, reportedly told Barr that her concern over the book “revealed biases that raised a question whether she could support every child.”
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Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which represented Barr in her legal fight against the school district, argued she was wrongfully fired in a manner that violated her constitutionally protected freedoms.
“The First Amendment clearly prohibits BCS from engaging in ‘viewpoint discrimination,’ or the punishment of speech where ‘the opinion or perspective of the speaker’ is the rationale for the punishment,” the lawsuit read.
“Lindsey…
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