Florida Teacher's Job Status on Hold for Using Student's 'Preferred Name'

NewsWEAK ^ | 4/11/25 | J Bickerton

[Recovering_Democrat]

A teacher in Florida has been told she won't have her contract extended "until the issue iAteacher in Florida has been told she won't have her contract extended "until the issue is resolved with the state" after she referred to a child be their preferred name, rather than legal their legal name, without parental consent.s resolved with the state" after she referred to a child be their preferred name, rather than legal their legal name, without parental consent.

...Brevard Public Schools chief strategic communications officer Janet Murnaghan said they had been contacted by a parent who complained that their child was being referred to "by a name other than their legal name" by Calhoun.

In response, it launched an investigation, with Calhoun admitting to the district that she "knowingly did not comply" with the rule on needing parental consent to change names in response to which she "received a letter of reprimand

[Recovering_Democrat]

Local Miami Florida media is hyperventilating over two dozen kids who are upset this law-breaking perversion enabler may not be rehired.

[House Atreides]

I’m getting “Sorry, that page not found” when I click your link.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Who wrote this article? A chimp?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Working link:

Florida Teacher's Job Status on Hold for Using Student's 'Preferred Name'>

[Recovering_Democrat]

Thanks.

Mods, I messed up the link. Could you fix add the one BSR posted?

[moviefan8]

Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

Are libetals trying to get rid of nanes? Cannot call someone by perferred name or legal name. It seems they are trying to erase identity. Isn’t this one of the steps to communism?

[Fireone]

That first paragraph almost killed me!

[albie]

Whoever wrote this needs to start all over again. As in kindergarten.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’ve known normal women named “Frederika” who go by “Freddie” and “Alexandra” who go by “Alex.”

What happens when Alexandra says “I prefer you call me Alex”? Does the teacher need to get parental permission for a simple and entirely innocent nickname?

The horsesh!t unleashed on us by the whacked out progs is terrible.

[BlackbirdSST]

A teacher in Florida has been told she won't have her contract extended "until the issue iAteacher in Florida has been told she won't have her contract extended "until the issue is resolved with the state" after she referred to a child be their preferred name, rather than legal their legal name, without parental consent.s resolved with the state" after she referred to a child be their preferred name, rather than legal their legal name, without parental consent.

Clearly written by AI. Artificial Idiot.

[MayflowerMadam]

Who’s going to diagram that long and incoherent sentence?

[BlackbirdSST]

Who’s going to diagram that long and incoherent sentence?

lol, I hate getting a headache first thing in the morning. Trying to decipher that sent me to the medicine cabinet. j/k, but barely.

[HIDEK6]

Who writes this shit?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

They used to call a “preferred name” a nickname.

[Scrambler Bob]

We had two Johns in grade school.

One was John and one was Johnny, when called on by the teacher.

[Stosh]

Were I to start over again, my preferred name would be “Your Royal Highness”.