So we’ve reached the point where calling someone what they want to be called can cost you your job. Imagine getting fired for basic human decency. 🤔
I remember when I was in school and teachers would ask each kid on day 1 how they would prefer to be named. This was in the 80s and 90s. In Texas.
There was nothing wrong with it then, nor is there anything wrong with it now.
What has changed is the vitriol and hate that has erupted against our trans brothers and sisters.
I spent my entire 9th grade (1991) as Kevin. My name is not, nor resembles, Kevin. 🤷♂️
Sure thing, Kevin
Shut up kevin
Such a Kevin thing to say.
That’s so Kevin…
Banana.
this could be the backstory of your username, my name is Barry Cuda ms Roberts
“Brevard Public Schools (BPS) was made aware that a teacher at Satellite High School had been referring to a student by a name other than their legal name, without parental permission when the parent reached out to us. This directly violates state law and the district’s standardized process for written parental consent.
“BPS supports parents’ rights to be the primary decision-makers in their children’s lives, and Florida law affirms their right to be informed.
Cruel, vindictive, inhumane and depraved control by the parents. The child is in danger and now knows that even trusted adults can’t be trusted when their parents go digging. Without a doubt the child is being verbally abused for daring to control their own identity.
Disgusting law, disgusting people and disgusting country.
“She is irreplaceable, not only a good teacher, but significantly more importantly she is the kindest and most caring person I have ever met in my life,” one supporter commented.
“Kindness and caring have no place in the classroom” - conservatives probably
Conservatives, absolutely. They see empathy as a weakness.
Probably because the most powerful conservatives all got to grow up in abusive boarding schools that disfigured their souls, deleted their empathy, and taught them how to savagely bully their way into power, humanity be damned.
Source: Trailer for Boarding on Insanity
But guns sure do!
My mom’s (teacher) old boss (principal) literally told her that she shouldn’t even know what the kids do after they leave school, basically saying she shouldn’t care about the kids.
Like why the fuck else do you become a teacher?!
Jesus fucking Christ. When I was in middle school in the southern Midwest, on the first day of school I had the teachers straight up ask if anyone had a preferred name other than the one on their records. Unprompted. And no one gave a shit.
She have a fund we can donate too?
Well then, we need to fire every teacher who uses “Bob” instead of “Robert” or “Liz” instead of “Elizabeth” then. Only then will they realize how stupid this is.
I’ve known a lot of people who go by their middle names because their first name is a family name (who they hate). Like if you call them by their first name, it’s the equivalent of dead naming.
Some of those people are anti-trans.
I can definitely imagine that: there were so many “James” in my family. Then again, my brothers middle name was much worse so that may be a reason he never tried
you can’t have a rational approach to this. these people love the hypocrisy. they bathe in it. wallow in like a pig in shit.
Welcome to the regressive fascist regime
I think the worst part about this story is that you know that kid’s parents are exactly the bigots you think they are, and now the child has learned a valuable lesson that they are completely alone, unloved, and no one will help them.
It’s terrible that Florida is doing this to teachers, but it’s worse for the kids.
This was my first thought, too. The kid found an advocate and a trusted person. So depressing
Great. Now nicknames will be illegal. No more Max or Jim or Bill. It’s either Maximillian or James or you’re fired (and no one cares about poor ol’ Bill).
Just when I thought Florida couldn’t get any dumber… damn, was I wrong.
Just more reasons to never go to Florida again.
señator Raf Cruz, shield your people with strong Texan wings! 🐧
I only have one data point but my kid’s teachers (high school) have always both called my kid their preferred name and pronouns. I did get “the letter” this year to send back saying it was ok. Ridiculous.
This is just such a mess, why oh why.
What I really and truly can’t understand are the parents. How can you be THAT controlling? What do they think it’s going to accomplish?
Are teachers in Florida now required to call each student by their full legal name every time?
if a teacher pulls an angry freudian slip and yells at you, but calls you by the regular classroom troublemaker’s name by mistake, they can get fired?
