Alliance Defending Freedom – Oct 21, 2022
Any parent concerned about their child’s education will have many conversations over the years with school principals, administrators, and teachers. The topics can span any number of subjects—from the child’s performance to their health and well-being to the school curriculum.
But Lindsey Barr found out the hard way that at some schools, not all conversations are welcome.
When Lindsey expressed concern as a parent about a book that would be read to her children at school, she was fired from her job as a substitute teacher in the district. Not only that, but she was locked out of accepting any jobs within the entire district.
But Lindsey was not intimidated into silence. Instead, she is taking a stand for free speech and parental rights.
Let’s look at the details of Lindsey’s case.
Who is Lindsey Barr?
Lindsey Barr is a mother of three children who attend Bryan County Schools in Georgia. For 10 years, Lindsey served as a full-time teacher with Bryan County Schools, where she received excellent reviews, earning a rating of exemplary on almost all performance criteria.
In January 2022, Lindsey was hired by Bryan County Schools as a substitute teacher. During that spring, she mostly subbed at McAllister Elementary School, where two of her children currently attend.
As an educator motivated by her religious beliefs, Lindsey believes that every child deserves to be loved, welcomed, and received into the classroom. In her class, Lindsey emphasizes kindness and respects all children regardless of their skin color, ethnicity, religion, and/or family background, including children whose parents identify as gay. Lindsey believes that all children are entitled to a loving and safe classroom environment in which to learn.
She wants what is best for all her students, including her own children.
Barr v. Tucker
At the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, Lindsey learned of a book that was going to be read to every class as a part of a new read-aloud program at the school’s library. This book was called All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold. The publisher’s website describes the book as, “A bright and uplifting celebration of cultural diversity and belonging, where all children are welcome in the classroom.” Among other things, it includes illustrations of same-sex couples parenting and expecting children.
This book caused Lindsey concern because it contained depictions that conflict with Lindsey’s sincerely held religious views on marriage and family. She believes the book is inappropriate for young children and that it appeared to be part of an effort to indoctrinate young children into a progressive ideology.
In August, Lindsey brought her concerns as a teacher and parent to the school principal and asked that her own children be excused from this reading time. The very next day, Lindsey was unable to access the Bryan County Schools portal she used to accept substitute teaching assignments. Five days later, she was informed by the school that they had terminated her ability to substitute at any Bryan County School.
Those actions were unjust. That’s why Alliance Defending Freedom stepped in to vindicate Lindsey’s rights.
What’s at stake?
The Constitution and Georgia law protect Lindsey’s rights as a parent and teacher.
In 2022, Georgia passed a Parents’ Bill of Rights that gives Lindsey the right to “review all instructional materials intended for use.” The law also guarantees Lindsey’s right to object to any instructional materials that are used in her children’s education, which is precisely what she did.
Public schools can’t fire or retaliate against teachers like Lindsey for expressing concern about their children’s education. Teachers shouldn’t fear for their careers when privately sharing their concerns about curricula with a school principal.
Public schools should not be pushing radical viewpoints on our youngest children. Instead of encouraging kids to learn about a variety of perspectives, schools are indoctrinating students with harmful ideologies.
Case timeline
- August 2022: Lindsay Barr was fired from her position as a substitute teacher after raising concerns about a book that was going to be read to her children at school.
- September 2022: Alliance Defending Freedom sent a demand letter asking that Lindsey be reinstated and that the school refrain from any further retaliation against her for her protected speech. After receiving no response from the school, ADF filed a federal lawsuit on Lindsey’s behalf.
The bottom line
Teachers shouldn’t be fired for expressing genuine concern about what is being taught in schools—especially when it’s being taught to their own children.
the jews tried to bring this homosexual filthy into germany but Hitler put a stop to it and under the protection of children and animals act he put all those with convictions against kids into the work camps
no surprises that so many were jews
they also tried to introduce this filth into the UK with the swinging 60s carnaby st fashions, and making men look like nancy boys, the mods were not all homosexual, but they looked it, with their facial makeup bright feminine clothing and riding their little motor scooters, but it fizzled out, this time they are going for the very young in schools
sick bastards
The big libs are doing everything they can to screw up schools and destroy students. Crazy people ruin everything.
slary bart-fast,
Completely agree and something else, out of the many, that was conveniently left out of history lessons at school
People continually warned the government that the legalization of homosexuality would open up Pandora’s box. The Jew knew precisely that legalizing society would debase and eventually destroy it. And here we are.
The homosexuals are degenerates. They are depraved individuals totally FUBAR, who constantly desire sexual pleasure. And now they are in the schools. All you have to do is look at ‘The Quartering’ on YouTube, who posts short videos calling out the many LGBTQ+ teachers who are grooming young children. They are being turned into homosexuals.
We’ll Convert Your Children
Now we have transgender story time: Adults Cheer As Drag Queen Dances For Little Girl
And last Friday, Channel 4 relaunched Friday Night Live with Ben Elton and we had a transgender musician, Jordan Gray (who appeared on The Voice in 2016), who stripped off, completely naked then used his penis to play the piano.
Bottom line is that they’re in. Cultural Marxism is now indoctrinating children into being homosexuals. And this was what it was all about. As slarty bart-fast stated, Hitler nipped this off at the bud. All the lies are continually told about Hitler and Germany in order to stop people from searching into what he did for Germany. We hear constantly how he ‘burned books’ but not told that the books were communist, anti German literature and pornography. Hitler is demonized because he stopped what’s happening in the west now, from happening in Germany. And they went to war because he kicked out the Jew bankers.
i remember the mods of the 60s people laughed at them
its true many were homosexual perverts but not all a lot of teenagers just went along with it
funny to think back
About society, its future with feminism and LGBTQPä :
The Nature of Women and the ‘Woke’ Problem
Anyone who is perceptive of current social and political trends in America knows that women — especially White liberal women — play an inordinate role. They are almost always at the forefront of any protest lecturing others about ‘systemic racism,’ ‘white privilege,’ ‘toxic masculinity,’ and the need for ‘equity’ in every sphere of life.
These same women are given every conceivable platform to spew their revolutionary rhetoric. They demand to be heard, and they haven’t the slightest hesitancy to confront and shout down their opponents
Read More : https://www.unz.com/article/the-nature-of-women-and-the-woke-problem/
kill the school administrators !