A Wisconsin teacher who complained about the banning of the Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton song “Rainbowland” has now been fired.
In a unanimous decision, the Waukesha School Board on Wednesday night voted to fire first-grade teacher Melissa Tempel, four months after she criticized Heyer Elementary School’s decision to prohibit her students from singing a pro-LGBTQ song in a school concert.
Earlier this year, Tempel took to Twitter to express frustration at school administrators who banned the 2017 pop-country track, which was once described by Parton as a song about “dreaming and hoping that we could all do better.” The song was written by Parton and her goddaughter Cyrus, who featured it on her sixth studio album, “Younger Now.”
