GET ME REWRITE: Waukesha School District Board freakout over rainbows leads to federal lawsuit

 

Headline:  Wisconsin Public Radio, 9/5/2023

In late March, the first-grade dual-language teacher blasted the district on social media after it excluded the song by Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton. The lyrics were widely believed to focus on acceptance, but district officials said they found the song "could be deemed controversial." 

She told news outlets, including Wisconsin Public Radio, that the Muppets' "Rainbow Connection" was initially banned but later accepted after pushback from parents and the Alliance for Education in Waukesha. 

She also told WPR the district had not offered any specific reasons for the ban, but "the only common thread between those two songs was the word rainbow."  [emphasis added]