Posted on 05/23/2022 5:42:05 PM PDT by Morgana
A bomb threat closed all schools in a Wisconsin school district Monday, days after three middle schoolers found themselves under investigation for refusing to address their non-binary classmate by their preferred pronouns.
Kiel Middle School received the threat during school hours, at roughly 12:45 pm, shortly after police announced they were working to investigate 'threatening communications' toward district staff regarding the sexual harassment probe.
The students, all aged 13 and all enrolled at Kiel Middle, were all hit with a formal complaint earlier this month, for referring to the unnamed student as 'she' or 'her,' rather than 'they' or 'them.'
One of the children, Braden Rabidoux, spoke out about the investigation in an interview with Fox News last week, airing fears that he may not get into college because of the sexual harassment charges leveled against him.
He along with his two classmates - whom have not been named - argue that the First Amendment allows them to refer to their nonbinary classmate with whatever pronouns they wish.
The incident has since gained traction and has garnered national news coverage, thrusting the small Kiel Area School District - comprised of Kiel Middle, Kiel High, Zielanis Elementary and approximately 1,500 students - into the spotlight.
Directly before Monday's threat, which saw all three schools evacuated, City of Kiel Police Chief Dave Funkhouser revealed the district had been receiving a stream of 'extremely vulgar, hateful, and disturbing' threats since the case went public.
Funkhouser's announcement included the revelation that extra patrols would be deployed around the three school's buildings as a precautionary measure due to the concerning communications.
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Or use scare quotes.
But I’m trying to think of an example of when, in ordinary conversation, we use gendered pronouns about the person we are speaking to. For example, “you” and “yours” are not gendered. But I wouldn’t use “his”, “hers”, “he”, “she”, “they”, “them”, etc. unless I was speaking to someone about someone else.
No; it's worse than that: it was a federal Title IX complaint, by the district!
You are correct. When speaking directly to those folks a nongender pronoun would be used. I had assumed these misgendered folks felt misgendered when someone was speaking about the offended person in a way that implied a gender specific identity that did not match that person’s ideation.
Someone, on this site, mentioned that in the middle ages, some folk considered themselves to be made of glass. Quite interesting that delusional thinking just possibly appropriates any current fad or concept. Other examples could be messianic complexes, Napoleon complexes, people who confess to any crime they read about, people who impersonate doctors, policemen, businessmen,
Freegards
“Not far enough.
We need to end all public funded education. Period.
The only thing that will stop this woke idiocy is starving the people behind it.
The ones that dont peddle it will find teaching jobs in the marketplace.”
Yeah. There’s no bargaining with these people. They are beyond reason. Cut off their support.
I have been preaching this for many years.
I was thinking a teacher who wanted a head start on the Memorial Day holiday.
Betcha...
So the kids referred to the one student with a singular term instead of a plural? Sounds correct to me.
Is the offended actually a female?
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