Maria Cramer and Isabella Grullón Paz write: “The 2nd-graders in the Hinds County School District in Mississippi were waiting for an administrator to read to them. The administrator had forgotten it was her turn, said Toby Price, the assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in Hinds County. He quickly grabbed I Need a New Butt! by Dawn McMillan, one of his children’s favorites, and began reading it to the roughly 240 2nd-graders over Zoom.” But the district superintendent called the book “inappropriate” and fired Price, claiming he violated the standards of conduct section of the Mississippi Educator Code of Ethics.