Mississippi school board upholds firing over 'New Butt' book

[TexasTowelie]

BYRAM, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi educator who was fired for reading a children’s book called “I Need a New Butt!” to second graders says he will go to court to try to get his job back.

Toby Price told the Clarion Ledger he received a 12-page order Monday showing the Hinds County School Board had voted 2-1 in late April to uphold the superintendent’s decision to fire him in March. He was assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary in the Jackson suburb of Byram.

Price was initially suspended with pay but later fired after reading the book over Zoom. The book, by Dawn McMillan, chronicles a child’s journey to find a new backside. It is illustrated with cartoons that show the character considering an armor-plated butt, a rocket butt and a robot butt.

While Price was appealing, Superintendent Delesicia Martin called the book “inappropriate” because it showed “private areas of the body.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/education-mississippi-jackson-school-boards-4e9b3ca0c3f65470c9b44e04f435328d

[Docreed2003]

1. My wife and I just saw this book in Target over the weekend

What a ridiculous reason to fire a teacher

[Walleye]

2. Donald Duck never wore pants don't forget

[MuseRider]

4. Neither did Porky Pig

and his butt would more closely resemble a childs butt. WTF? They are looking for every reason there is to turn all the schools into Christian schools. Eventually they will make it by picking away at every little, stupid thing

[Walleye]

5. That's right, Porky had a very cute butt. The kids love butt jokes. Fucking grown-ups

[Runningdawg]

3. Mississippi is an "at will" state.

An employer can dismiss an at-will employee at any time for any non-discriminatory reason. They don't even need a reason. A labor lawyer in OK once told me they can fire you for having blue eyes even if yours are brown. They can even tell you they don't like people with (x) colored eyes. There is no law against it.

[hildegaard28]

7. So the people of

Hinds County fired a teacher for reading a book about butts...