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Teacher Suspended For Refusing To Use Student’s Preferred Pronouns, Court Makes School Pay
24News ^ | 09-02-2022 | Samantha Foster

Posted on 09/02/2022 9:00:07 AM PDT by montag813

by Samantha Foster| 24News

Pamela Ricard was a math teacher at Fort Riley Middle School. She was reprimanded then suspended after challenging a school district policy requiring faculty to use a student’s preferred name and "prounoun" while addressing the student, and forcing them to hide the student’s social transition from their parents  but use the student’s legal name when speaking to parents. 

Ricard refused, asserting that the school policy violated her conscience.

Administrators at Fort Riley Middle School retaliated when Ricard asserted that a teacher should refer to students by their legal name and pronouns that corresponded with their biological sex.

They canned her. But Ricard refused to back down. She sued the Geary County School District.

And now she has prevailed:

(Excerpt) Read more at us24news.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: freedom; lgbtq; pronoun; schools

1 posted on 09/02/2022 9:00:07 AM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

Bravo!!!


2 posted on 09/02/2022 9:01:43 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: montag813

Good , keep Gibberish out of the classroom


3 posted on 09/02/2022 9:06:31 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: montag813

Kiddies will always challenge adults.


4 posted on 09/02/2022 9:10:37 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

“Kiddies will always challenge adults.”

Way back I was teaching an 8th grade math class. I got challenged the first day. I laid down the law. Rest of term went fine.

But back then there were consequences ...


5 posted on 09/02/2022 9:20:35 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: montag813

I wonder what the preferred name and pronoun was?

Propbably something outrageous the student was trying to prank the teacher with...

My name is The Great Queer, and my pronoun is Queefking!


6 posted on 09/02/2022 9:38:13 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: TexasGator

My first grade teacher gave me a paddle spanking across her lap, in front of the class for eating my best friend’s cookie.

Second time was 6th grade for drawing. Ruler on hands.

I was a really bad student unlike those ‘pronouns’ today, but I made
good grades in most everything.

Do they even use the alphabet these days?


7 posted on 09/02/2022 9:39:03 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: montag813
Every one of these mentally deranged teachers and administrators who demand adherance to this awful idea should be dragged out of those schools, fired and lose all of their benefits. We should also take action to see they are never allowed to teach anywhere ever again. Make this crap idea illegal and it fades away.
8 posted on 09/02/2022 9:39:42 AM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: montag813

That is not much money. And the tax payers pay it. No one in the admin actually got punished.


9 posted on 09/02/2022 9:41:40 AM PDT by Revel
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To: TribalPrincess2U
Do they even use the alphabet these days?

Teachers don't seem to worry about grades anymore these days. They're too busy trying to turn children into little mentally ill homosexuals without informing the parents.

This is a hill to fight on guys. When they've come for your children then it's time to get serious.

10 posted on 09/02/2022 9:44:35 AM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: montag813

the judgment needs to be against special school offinials to have real deterrence.


11 posted on 09/02/2022 9:49:25 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: montag813

Math teacher, huh? Something didn’t add up, so she figured it out!


12 posted on 09/02/2022 9:51:34 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: montag813

My daughter says a school district near hers has kids who think they are cats, and the school goes along with it. This includes using their “cat names”, providing litter boxes, and letting them answer questions with “meows”. It’s the age of insanity.


13 posted on 09/02/2022 10:00:32 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: TexasGator

I’d love to talk about your middle school experiences. I’m just about finishing up my teaching certification and I tend to like teaching middle school (highschoolers are a different animal, and most of them are taller than I am.)

So far, it’s been pretty fun, but the trans kids are a strange issue — and several of them have attempted suicide, despite everyone being oh so careful with their pronuns (teachers will get fired immediately if they don’t) so there’s something really weird going on. (An understatement I know)


14 posted on 09/02/2022 10:23:25 AM PDT by Mermaid Girl
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To: montag813

Exclusive Scene From The Rings Of Power - Listen to the I think a female tell us her/she pronouns
https://youtu.be/twmojN_N90Y?t=79


15 posted on 09/02/2022 11:44:15 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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