{"id":1373382,"date":"2022-03-12T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373382"},"modified":"2022-03-12T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T00:40:50","slug":"assistant-principal-fired-after-reading-i-need-a-new-butt-to-second-graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/assistant-principal-fired-after-reading-i-need-a-new-butt-to-second-graders\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Principal Fired After Reading \u2018I Need A New Butt!\u2019 To Second Graders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fassistant-principal-fired-after-reading-i-need-a-new-butt-to-second-graders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373382&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1165623314.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An assistant principal who read a children\u2019s book titled \u201cI Need A New Butt\u201d that contained inappropriate content to second graders was subsequently fired last week.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Price, an assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in a suburb of Jackson, Mississippi, read the children\u2019s book to the group of second graders. Second grade students are usually seven years old, potentially as young as six years old.<\/p>\n<p>On March 2, Price, 46, was filling in for an administrator who had forgotten it was her turn to read to the group of about 240 second-graders over Zoom for Read Across America week. Price decided to fill in and grabbed \u201cI Need a New Butt!\u201d by Dawn McMillan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of reluctant readers,\u201d Price <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/11\/us\/toby-price-mississippi.html\">told<\/a> The New York Times. \u201cI am a firm believer that reluctant readers need the silly, funny books to hook them in.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">These are some of the pages from the book: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WfIMCi7G8R\">pic.twitter.com\/WfIMCi7G8R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1502385851967291393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Later the same day, Price was called up to the office of district superintendent, Delesicia Martin, and informed that he was on administrative leave. Two days later, he was fired and accused of\u00a0violating the standards of conduct section of the Mississippi Educator Code of Ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Price <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/assistant-principal-fired-reading-need-new-butt-second-grade-class-rcna19362\">told<\/a> NBC News that he had read the book at his previous school and didn\u2019t think twice about reading to his young audience over Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t think twice about reading it because I\u2019ve never had an issue with it before. There are other books that have much more suggestive material that are much more widely accepted,\u201d Price <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2022\/03\/09\/gary-road-elementary-school-assistant-principal-fired-after-reading-childrens-book\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, because the book features words like \u201cbutt\u201d and \u201cfart,\u201d as well as cartoon drawings of a child\u2019s butt, the school found it problematic.<\/p>\n<p>Price\u2019s termination letter from the superintendent of the Hinds County School District states that he showed \u201ca lack of professionalism and impaired judgment\u201d in choosing the title, and that for those reasons his employment is terminated, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2022\/03\/09\/gary-road-elementary-school-assistant-principal-fired-after-reading-childrens-book\/\">according<\/a> to Jackson\u2019s NBC affiliate WLBT.<\/p>\n<p>Price plans to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think that, you know, this was a pretty harsh reaction. I\u2019ve been in education for 20 years. I\u2019ve never had a disciplinary anything put in my file and I didn\u2019t for being late. So I was blown away,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Need A New Butt,\u201d originally published in 2012, is marketed as a children\u2019s book. The same author has written other books along the same theme with similar illustrations, including \u201cMy Butt Is So Silly\u201d and \u201cMy Butt Is So Noisy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA young boy suddenly notices a big problem \u2014 his butt has a huge crack! So he sets off to find a new one. Will he choose an armor-plated butt? A rocket butt? A robot butt? Find out in this quirky tale of a tail, which features hilarious rhymes and delightful illustrations. Children and parents will love this book \u2014 no ifs, ands, or butts about it!\u201d reads a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.doverpublications.com\/0486787990.html\">description<\/a> of the story.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assistant principal who read a children\u2019s book titled \u201cI Need A New Butt\u201d that contained inappropriate content to second graders was subsequently fired last week.Toby Price, an assistant principal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}