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Some Nebraska parents say teachers overstepped authority by asking kids pronouns
Omaha World Herald ^ | Sept, 6, 2021 | Joe Dejka

Posted on 09/06/2021 7:40:52 AM PDT by Mean Daddy

Publicly declaring one’s chosen gender pronouns has become a trend in some business correspondence and social media profiles.

Volunteering one’s pronouns is seen as a sign of sensitivity and solidarity with people of various gender identities, and also a way to avoid mistaken identity.

But should public school teachers ask children to reveal their identity?

Parents say that’s happening in some Nebraska schools.

Parents of children attending the Papillion La Vista, Lincoln, Omaha, Hastings and Cozad districts told The World-Herald that teachers asked their children in middle and high school to indicate their choice of pronouns.

Several parents said this was done without them knowing or approving.

Officials with the Papillion La Vista Community Schools said teachers who asked for the pronouns did so because they wanted to make students of diverse gender identities feel welcome in class.

Not all teachers in Papillion La Vista did it, and there was not a districtwide directive for them to do it, spokeswoman Annette Eyman said.

“It’s meant with the best of intentions to include kids and create a climate in the classroom where all kids feel a connection to the teacher,” she said.

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


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All I can say is wow. From a parent in the article: She believes that the teacher had good intentions, for the most part, but didn’t think through the consequences.
1 posted on 09/06/2021 7:40:52 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Mean Daddy

I get confused.

I thought the latest was that they aren’t supposed to refer to boys and girls in school at all. I thought I heard that the latest was to divide classes into groups such as the Purple Penguins and Orange Tigers, rather than grouping as boys and girls.

I can’t keep up with all of this. I know I will be in re-education camp someday. One innocent careless remark about boys and girls in school, and I will be sent away.

Sarcasm, I hope.


2 posted on 09/06/2021 7:43:58 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Mean Daddy

“Volunteering one’s pronouns is seen as a sign of sensitivity and solidarity with people of various gender identities, and also a way to avoid mistaken identity.”

No, it is a sign of deviance acceptance.


3 posted on 09/06/2021 7:45:21 AM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders,)
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To: Mean Daddy

Make it easy....if you’re a teacher simply tell your class you will be addressed as Mr (last name) like they do in Star Trek.


4 posted on 09/06/2021 7:45:42 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Mean Daddy
Teachers in the Papillion La Vista, Lincoln, Omaha, Hastings and Cozad districts who asked their children in middle and high school to indicate their choice of pronouns, should be suspended, if not summarily fired.

If such questions were ordered by principals, superintendents, or school boards, they should be summarily fired.

5 posted on 09/06/2021 7:45:50 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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“She believes that the teacher had good intentions, for the most part, but didn’t think through the consequences.”

...this rationalizing BS is what liberals want and designed. This parent is scared to say what’s really on her mind because she fears doxing, losing her job and character assassination. “Good intentions” my a**!


6 posted on 09/06/2021 7:46:20 AM PDT by albie
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To: Mean Daddy

Meanwhile Chinese kids are learning calculus.


7 posted on 09/06/2021 7:48:58 AM PDT by marron
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To: Mean Daddy

Parents should coach their children to say, “My pronouns are God/Lord. Please use them and respect my pronouns.”


8 posted on 09/06/2021 7:49:50 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Mean Daddy

Elections are coming up. From sea to shining sea, school boards need to be overthrown. Given the muddle-headed parent quoted here, it won’t be happening in in this particular district. Anyway, that’s my opinion.
Signed,
Jhavenfarm (me, ma, moo)


9 posted on 09/06/2021 7:52:07 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Mean Daddy

How about teaching children proper grammar and parts of speech?


10 posted on 09/06/2021 7:54:34 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: Mean Daddy

Parents in Nebraska ought to be able to control their school boards, purge the nonsense and the people who promote it.


11 posted on 09/06/2021 7:54:52 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Mean Daddy

Back when I was in grade school, biological boys were required to dress in pants, biological girls were required to wear dresses. No questions necessary.


12 posted on 09/06/2021 7:55:09 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Mean Daddy

Look at the bright side … at least the kids know what a pronoun is now. The teachers are so ignorant they probably had to look it up themselves! LOL!


13 posted on 09/06/2021 7:56:11 AM PDT by livius
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And we didn’t need the word biological before boy or girl. We just were. We knew which bathroom to use by first grade. (we had a single bathroom in the kindergarten classroom)


14 posted on 09/06/2021 8:00:29 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: Mean Daddy

This brainwashed educrat is just transmitting the bureaucratic norms from her own educrat hierarchy.

I have friends in state-run academia who tell me that their internal zoom meetings, or meetings with staff at others schools all begin with a declaration of pronouns.


15 posted on 09/06/2021 8:00:48 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Huskrrrr

Yep, I’m old enough to remember dress codes in school such as you describe.

And boys were not allowed to have hair long enough to cover the ears or go below the collar.

Times have changed, what can we say.


16 posted on 09/06/2021 8:01:15 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: CodeToad

I was thinking the same thing!

As was Timothy Carey was in THE WORLD’S GREATEST SINNER.(1962)


17 posted on 09/06/2021 8:01:38 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. 4 hours! Now back in FB jail-again!)
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To: Mean Daddy

Why should we care, this only happens in BLUE STATES, as in this case, while most of us are in Red States. How do I know that - simple, people here still have their kids in public schools, so I guess that means they’re ‘safe’ from this crap.


18 posted on 09/06/2021 8:02:27 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Mean Daddy

Why even use or worry about “pronouns”????

just call the kids by their name...Johnny or Suzie...whatever...


19 posted on 09/06/2021 8:03:09 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Mean Daddy

Why wouldnt a teacher know by looking at a child that they are either a she/her or a he/his...

Teachers need to act normal even if the parents wont...


20 posted on 09/06/2021 8:03:36 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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