Posted on 04/30/2019 10:49:19 PM PDT by SimonDaily
Peter Vlaming, a Virginia French teacher, finds himself in the middle of a politically correct battle with the Virginia school system. Vlaming’s job was ripped out from under him after a split second decision to call a trans student ‘her’.
The student was reportedly about to walk into a wall when the teacher instinctively said ‘stop her’. And so his ridiculous fight to keep his job began.
That’s it… ‘stop her’, and a man’s livelihood is under fire. His religious beliefs- disregarded.
According to Virginia Times, the high school in West Point, a town in King William County about an hour east of Richmond, has about 265 students.
Vlaming, 47, who had taught at the school for almost seven years after spending more than a decade in France, told his superiors his Christian faith prevented him from using male pronouns for a student he saw as female.
The student’s family informed the school system of the transition over the summer. Vlaming said he had the student in class the year before when the student identified as female.
Vlaming agreed to use the student’s new, male name. But he tried to avoid using any pronouns — he or him, and she or her — when referring to the student. The student said that made him feel uncomfortable and singled out.
Administrators sided with the boy, telling Vlaming he could not treat his transgender pupil differently than he treats others.
“We do not and cannot tolerate discrimination in any form, or actions that create a hostile environment for any member of our school family,” they said in a statement. “Mr. Vlaming was asked repeatedly, over several weeks and by multiple administrators, to address a student by the pronouns with which this student identifies. The issue before us was not one mistaken slip of the tongue. Mr. Vlaming consistently refused to comply going forward — including in a statement made at the hearing — a willful violation of school board policy.”
Vlaming cited his Christian faith and told his superiors that he was willing to use the student’s name and simply avoid using feminine pronouns but he says the school rejected that compromise.
One parent pointed out that the school did not even have a specific policy in place in regard to the use of gender pronouns.
“If there’s no policy in place, how can they just let him go?” Jennifer Haynes, a 52-year-old West Point High parent, asked.
“That is not tolerance,” Vlaming said. “That is coercion.”
Speaking in his own defense, Vlaming said he loves and respects all his students and had tried to reach a solution based on “mutual tolerance.” That effort was rejected, he said, putting him at risk of losing his job for having views held by “most of the world for most of human history.”
Why be a teacher any more?
It seems like no one really wants to learn anything.
I guess he should have let the student walk into the wall. This is just another case of “the conservative teacher must go”. Hyper sensitive PC police are ruining peoples’ lives because they aren’t in step with the libtard party line. Please, someone remind me what country we’re in!
I’m still unclear as to whether this person is a boy or a girl. And walking into a wall? This is an odd story.
The student may have also identified as being blind? (Probably not - but I’m not sure enough these days to use the /s tag).
But they seem to have no problem discriminating against Christians. Or sane people.
The Left will now use their new tool, lgtbq bullying accusations, to eradicate any teacher who is not fully compliant with the Lefts agenda.
Or sane people. :)
I don’t know how it came to this.
NO ideology, no religion, no form of govt that I know of in history has advocated for or stood for this kind of insanity.
It’s like fascism but with a level of moral depravity that rivals and in some ways beats the worst fascist states in history.
We will look back on hundreds of thousands of mutilated teens one day (I believe being “TS” is a fad that is not going away soon) and wonder how the country lost its mind so badly.
“The student was reportedly about to walk into a wall when the teacher instinctively said ‘stop her’”
Maybe he should have let the student walk into a wall. Then they would be suing him, why did he allow that.
They can sue for $$$
That’s what drives so many hoaxes.
Shakedowns. And these days with hundreds of “protected groups”, it’s easy to find something to match your personality. And it’s an opportunity to really stick it in the eye of normal people.
“The worse, the better”
V.I. Lenin
I’m not wondering “how” and you shouldn’t either.
I believe in the scientific facts of biology which are all in this teacher’s favor. Unfortunately for him the school administrators are morons and politically correct imbeciles who have no business being anywhere near impressionable youth.
Are you even a real person. You post your own articles, only from “thepatriotchronicles.com” and never even respond at all. It looks like you have been taking lessons from Sean Anthony. At least Sean Anthony responds once avery fifty or so articles.
Plus you’re a total noob.
Simple question that will drive a transgender into a catatonic state: what is your biological gender?
Bookmark
Leftist activists expect us to yield. They must be denied and ridiculed. Remember that trans-dragon is only removed from transgender by a matter of degree – some prosthesis and hormone supplements, a bit of reconstruction, a fuel supply and ignition source.
This is not NOVA or Richmond but a paper mill town on the York Neck. Culturally very conservative and Southern. The rats are infiltrating everywhere.
How do you change something if you don’t know how it happened? and will continue to get worse.
Whatever they are doing is working TEN times better than what our side is doing.
The devil is winning on earth.
Our team is losing.
Doesn’t bother me, it’s a public school after all.
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