An excerpt from Monday's long decision by Judge Douglas Cole (S.D. Ohio) in Cahall v. Cole New Richmond Exempted Village School Dist. Bd. of Ed.:

Plaintiff Karen Cahall is a third-grade math and science teacher …. The District, acting through one of the other individual Defendants—Superintendent Tracey Miller—imposed a three-day unpaid suspension on Cahall, asserting that she had violated the District's "controversial issues" policy based on certain reading materials she made available to the students in her classroom….

Cahall maintains a collection of books in her classroom that she makes available to students to read during in-class free time, but that she does not otherwise use in connection with instructing the students. The instant controversy arose when a parent complained about so

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