Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Virginia high school teacher fired for refusing to use transgender student's new pronouns
The Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | 12/07/2018 | By GRAHAM MOOMAW

Posted on 12/07/2018 4:33:16 AM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey

A Virginia high school teacher was fired Thursday for refusing to use a transgender student’s new pronouns, a case believed to be the first of its kind in the state.

After a four-hour hearing, the West Point School Board voted 5-0 to terminate Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at West Point High School who resisted administrators’ orders to use male pronouns to refer to a ninth-grade student who had undergone a gender transition. The board met in closed session for nearly an hour before the vote.

Like a similar transgender rights case in nearby Gloucester County that eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court, Vlaming’s situation could present a novel legal case as public bodies continue to grapple with how to reconcile anti-discrimination policies with the rights of religious employees.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: academicbias; petervlaming; pronouns; teacher; transgender; virginia; waronscience; westpointhigh; wordnazis
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-44 next last
To: ealgeone
I identify as a 67 year old....I want my social security now.

Lucky you. It's been a few years since I could party like a 67 year old.

21 posted on 12/07/2018 5:20:00 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Captain Jack Aubrey

To that student, I would have told then that my gender was Your Majesty, and I expected them to use it.


22 posted on 12/07/2018 5:20:47 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

*crimethink

oldthinkers unbellyfeel goodnewspeaking

Translation: People who think in old ways and patterns do not have an innate grasp of proper new grammar.


23 posted on 12/07/2018 5:25:02 AM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Captain Jack Aubrey

Where are the parents of that school rising up, not in protest, but in rebellion; demanding the removal of the school administration for this madness? Not one more child, not one more penny for that school until the administration is dismissed! All of this is happening because we are allowing it to happen.


24 posted on 12/07/2018 5:26:20 AM PST by Petrosius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: I want the USA back

homofascism
crazy talk

a war that was led by certifiably crazy people like Kate Millett


25 posted on 12/07/2018 5:26:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: I want the USA back

Yes indeed folks you got it. Now the Government can tell you what you must say. They were already enforcing what you can’t say “hate speech”. Now they force you to say things you believe to be untrue. Sweet Land of Liberty of Thee I Mourn.


26 posted on 12/07/2018 5:27:22 AM PST by Desron13 (You may choose to ignore reality but you can't force reality to ignore you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Captain Jack Aubrey

>> a French teacher at West Point High School who resisted administrators’ orders to use male pronouns to refer to a ninth-grade student who had undergone a gender transition.

the prosecutors’ case will fall apart in court when the DNA evidence is presented. The teacher is right.


27 posted on 12/07/2018 5:28:35 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: I want the USA back
You lose your means of earning a living for words? This is not the USA. It’s totalitarian fascism creeping up on us.

If these cases continue to grow in number, I wonder how long it will be before Amazon's Alexa, Google's assistant, and Apple's Siri become full-time employees of the Leftist government hate speech enforcers. That is, if they aren't that already.

"Mr. Employee, please report to the HR department."

"Yes, Ms. HR? You wanted to see me?"

"No, Mr. Employee, I don't want to see you, you filthy slug, but to fire you, I must endure your presence."

"Last night, while you were watching the news in you house, you called Maxine Waters a black c-word bitch. The security people have cleaned out your desk and put your useless belongings next to your damned fossil fuel car in the parking lot. Too bad it's pouring rain. But before you leave, I am happy to tell you that the federal government people have confiscated your pay records, your bank records, your tax returns, and all of your purchase records. We have been tracking some serious discrepancies. I am happy to say that the next few decades of your useless life will be hell. And for your whore so-called wife, and your way-too-many non-aborted three children, too. Ah, your escorts are here. I'm finished with you, you effing filthy white maggot male. Ha, ha, ha!"

28 posted on 12/07/2018 5:28:54 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Captain Jack Aubrey

That’s funny. A French teacher. French is completely based on things being male or female. You can’t have the language without the basis of there being two genders and it’s a no no to mix them up.


29 posted on 12/07/2018 5:31:49 AM PST by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Captain Jack Aubrey

I shall identify as the valedictorian and anything less than an A is discriminatory. Nonconforming teachers must be fired.


30 posted on 12/07/2018 5:42:14 AM PST by small farm girl (....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pollard

Every student who supports this teacher should go into school and make demands to be addressed by teachers/administrators as something other than what they are. Change it up the next day and the day after that. They have what, like 50 genders to choose from now ? Create chaos to illustrate how poorly thought out it policy is.


31 posted on 12/07/2018 5:43:11 AM PST by XRdsRev (You can't spell HILLARY without the letters LIAR.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Captain Jack Aubrey

So who’s still glad that the government “got out of our bedrooms” and legalized gaydom?

Also note how “progressives” made sure to get that legalization before moving on to the marriage bit.


32 posted on 12/07/2018 5:43:21 AM PST by fruser1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ealgeone

I AM 67. I want to identify as Jack Benny.


33 posted on 12/07/2018 5:44:39 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Pollard
You can’t have the language without the basis of there being two genders and it’s a no no to mix them up.

I'm glad I wasn't born French, because that's a language I never could have learned.

34 posted on 12/07/2018 5:47:07 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Captain Jack Aubrey

School board votes to LIE!

I hope the school systems gets a big fat lawsuit for Christmas


35 posted on 12/07/2018 5:48:58 AM PST by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: I want the USA back
Sweet land of liberty? Not any more! You lose your means of earning a living for words? This is not the USA.

"Land of the Free" and "Home of the Brave" are reduced to anachronistic, nostalgic phrases now.

36 posted on 12/07/2018 5:51:47 AM PST by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Captain Jack Aubrey
resisted administrators’ orders to use male pronouns to refer to a ninth-grade student who had undergone a gender transition

Meaning what - she cut her hair?
Had an addadicktome procedure?

Ninth grade, for Pete's sake! Her parents are child abusers!

37 posted on 12/07/2018 6:05:10 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ProtectOurFreedom

Happy 39th Birthday, Mr. Benny. ;-)


38 posted on 12/07/2018 6:10:40 AM PST by lowbridge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: lowbridge

Thanks, Rochester!

(I’m glad somebody got it)


39 posted on 12/07/2018 6:20:43 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: Captain Jack Aubrey

Why It Can Take Six Years to Fire an Inappropriate or Ineffective Teacher

https://www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/why-it-can-take-six-years-to-fire-an-inappropriate-or-ineffective-teacher

New Study Shows That Firing Bad Teachers Hasn’t Gotten Much Easier

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ineffective-public-school-teachers-proving-difficult-fire-due-regulations/

Looks like Virginia found a way to fire a good teacher.


40 posted on 12/07/2018 6:26:06 AM PST by lowbridge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-44 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson