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Teacher Fired After Refusing To Use Student ‘Pronouns’ - School Just Handed Big Defeat
24News ^ | 09-06-2022 | Samantha Foster

Posted on 09/06/2022 12:32:49 PM 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: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arth; commies; education; pronouns; school; woke
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1 posted on 09/06/2022 12:32:49 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

You’re not in school to learn Gibberish


2 posted on 09/06/2022 12:35:14 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: montag813

If that’s her in the blue dress, she kinda looks too young to retire. On the other hand she won’t have trouble being hired at a non-woke school.


3 posted on 09/06/2022 12:40:32 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: montag813

And the parents not allowed to know. They should join her lawsuit or add their own. If allowed to stand the communist goal of the state owning the children is achieved.


4 posted on 09/06/2022 12:41:43 PM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: montag813

Here’s my general-purpose solution:

Give the student two choices:

1. We will use one of the two traditional pronoun families (he, she, his, hers, etc.) you’d like us to use.

2. We will use use your full name, e.g. Joe Brown, and never use a pronoun to refer to you. Also, we won’t put a Mr. or Ms. on front.


5 posted on 09/06/2022 12:43:06 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: montag813

You can just imagine the meeting of those highly paid public school bureaucrats concocting that bizarre policy. With people like that in charge of public education it is no surprise that 50% of 8th graders in urban public schools with huge budgets are functionally illiterate and are unable to do basic arithmetic.


6 posted on 09/06/2022 12:43:12 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Getready

NY Post has her pic. That’s not her in the blue dress. Gutsy and let’s keep the ball rolling.


7 posted on 09/06/2022 12:46:04 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: montag813
An employer can not fire you for not lying.

People really need to read up on employment law.

8 posted on 09/06/2022 12:47:03 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yes they can.


9 posted on 09/06/2022 12:48:56 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: cymbeline

I agree. To piss em off, I would tell them I have never been taught on how to appropriately teach a transgender, therefore I may not be able to teach them well, if at all.
I think most of the stuff going on in the lower ages is just nascent attention getting, and rebellion. And too busy to care parents.


10 posted on 09/06/2022 12:51:22 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: blueunicorn6
Ok... if they do they will be punished financially for it.

And possibly have to hire you back although who would want to work for someone who not only lies but demands you do so as well?

11 posted on 09/06/2022 12:54:51 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: montag813

Can you ping the Free Republic “Kansas” Board for this article?


12 posted on 09/06/2022 12:56:29 PM PDT by Jessarah
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To: montag813

When a society descends into evil madness, the first institutions to get totally corrupted are medicine and academia.


13 posted on 09/06/2022 1:00:13 PM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: cymbeline

“Also, we won’t put a Mr. or Ms. on front.”


When announcing awards at my school’s 8th-grade graduation I always used ‘Miss’ for the girls. The old rule was a girl is a Miss from the cradle to the altar. No one objected, or to the fact that boys were just first name, last name.


14 posted on 09/06/2022 1:02:01 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Getready
Not her. Apparently she's either recently retired or due to retire in May.


15 posted on 09/06/2022 1:10:33 PM PDT by SJackson (nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
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To: Getready

If that’s her in the blue dress then she can call me anything she wants.


16 posted on 09/06/2022 1:12:18 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: montag813
Why is anyone still using pronouns?!!
Use the first name, every time. Problem solved.
You're going to risk it all over mis-gendering and not using the right pronoun? Don't. They are dangerous.
17 posted on 09/06/2022 1:12:34 PM PDT by monkeybrau
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To: montag813

If the kid wants to use other than their given name, let the parents register the kid under the name the kid wants to use.

As long as the birth certificate backs it up or is accompanied by a court-approved name change action.


18 posted on 09/06/2022 1:14:18 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

You are right on this one.

That company no longer exists.


19 posted on 09/06/2022 1:16:12 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: butlerweave

‘You’re not in school to learn Gibberish’

gibberish would have made a lot more sense to me in school than Euclidian Geometry...


20 posted on 09/06/2022 1:33:24 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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