A third-grade teacher with over 30 years of service in Ohio has filed a federal lawsuit after being suspended for including books with LGBTQ+ characters in her classroom library. Karen Cahall was suspended for three days without pay after New Richmond Exempted Village School District Superintendent Tracey Miller determined that four of her books violated district policy, WCMH reported. The books, part of a larger collection of 100 titles, were not part of the curriculum but available for voluntary reading.

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Teacher sues district after suspension for having books with LGBTQ+ characters in classroom

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An Ohio teacher is suing her school district after she was reprimanded and ultimately suspended for having books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom. Karen Cahall, an elementary school teacher, filed a federal case against the school board, Superintendent Tracey Miller and board members Todd Wells, Tim DuFau, Robert Wooten, Jonathan Zimmerman and Amy Story, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Friday."Cahall maintains sincere and deeply rooted mo…

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A teacher is suing the New Richmond School District and superintendent, claiming her rights to free speech and due process were violated after she was suspended over having books with LGBTQ+ characters in her classroom.

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An Ohio elementary teacher is suing her school district after she was disciplined for having books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library.

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A New Richmond Exempted Village Schools teacher is suing the district after she says she was disciplined for having books in her classroom that included LGBTQ+ characters.According to the suspension letter from Superintendent Tracey Miller, teacher Karen Cahall was placed on a three-day unpaid suspension in November for having books in her third-grade classroom library that "contained themes and discussion of topics of a controversial nature."Th…

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NEW RICHMOND, Ohio — A teacher at an elementary school in southwest Ohio is suing her school district after she was suspended because she had books in her classroom that included LGBTQ characters.WCMH Channel 4 reports Karen Cahall, a third-grade teacher at Monroe Elementary School in Clermont County, says in the lawsuit filed in federal court that she was suspended by the New Richmond Exempted Village School District superintendent for three da…

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Ana On the Edge, by A.J. Sass, The Fabulous Zed Watson, by Basil Sylvester, Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea, by Ashley Herring Blake, and Too Bright to See, by Kyle Lukoff.All feature LGBTQ characters, but do not contain any sexual conduct or descriptions of sexual activity, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer.Cahall argues in her lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, that none of the books can be considered “obsce…

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Teacher Suspended Over LGBTQ Books Fights Back in Court

A third-grade teacher in the southern Ohio village of New Richmond filed suit last week in an Ohio federal district court seeking damages for the 3-day suspension imposed on her for having four books in her classroom’s book collection that have LGBTQ+ characters in them.  The school claimed that the books violated the District’s Policy 2240 on Controversial Issues in the Classroom. The complaint (full text) in Cahall v. New Richmond Exempted Vil…

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An Ohio teacher is suing her school district for infringing on her religious and moral beliefs by disciplining her for having books with LGBTQ+ characters in her classroom. Karen Cahall, who  has worked at New Richmond Exempted Village School District for over 30 years as an elementary teacher, filed a lawsuit against the district last week after being subjected to "disciplinary proceedings" when a parent complained about four books she kept in …

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