June 18, 2015
Public Meeting Over Reading of Story of Gay Couple Canceled
Jason St. Amand READ TIME: 1 MIN.
A public meeting in a small North Carolina town over the reading of a story about a gay couple to third-graders has been canceled.
The News & Observer (http://bit.ly/1d46lEQ ) reports that the meeting was scheduled for Thursday night at Gravelly Hill Middle School in Efland, a small community about 20 miles northwest of Durham, and was expected to draw hundreds of people on both sides of the issue.
A statement released Thursday says the meeting was canceled because two appeals of an Orange County Schools review committee's upholding of the reading have been withdrawn.
Efland-Cheeks Elementary School teacher Omar Currie read his students "King & King," a children's story about a prince who falls in love with another prince.
Currie and Meg Goodhand, the assistant principal who gave him the book, later resigned.
A school committee upheld using the book, but multiple people appealed the ruling.
