Wisconsin teacher fired after criticizing district’s ‘Rainbowland’ ban

A teacher was fired Wednesday by the Waukesha, Wis., school board after she publicly criticized school administrators’ decision to prohibit her first-grade class from singing a song about rainbows earlier this year. After a nearly four-hour-long hearing, the nine-member board unanimously voted to terminate the contract of Melissa Tempel, a dual-language teacher at Heyer Elementary School. In March, Tempel tweeted about her frustration with administrators who nixed the Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus song “Rainbowland,” which describes a utopia “where we’re free to be exactly who we are,” after finding...