Posted on 03/14/2022 7:14:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pamela Ricard received a three-day suspension and reprimand for 'bullying by staff' after referring to a biologically female student who identified as male with the prefix “Ms.” despite the student never formally requesting to be addressed differently.
FORT RILEY, Kansas (LifeSiteNews) – A math teacher in Kansas is taking Fort Riley Middle School to court for punishing her because she referred to a gender-dysphoric student by her actual sex despite the lack of an official school policy on “gender identity” designations at the time.
The Daily Caller reported that Pamela Ricard alleges that in April 2021 she received a three-day suspension and formal reprimand for referring to a biologically-female student who identified as male with the prefix “Ms.” despite the student never formally requesting to be addressed differently. The school claimed that Ricard had violated its prohibitions on “bullying by staff,” but did not have a specific policy on students’ preferred names or pronouns at the time.
After the incident, the school distributed staff training documents on Gender Identity and Gender Expression,” complete with guidance on “Use of Preferred Names and Pronouns.” In response, Ricard requested a religious accommodation “regarding any school policy that requires a teacher or school employee to actively state or otherwise use a student’s or any other person’s preferred pronouns or other gendered language when different from the student’s or person’s biological sex,” on the grounds that addressing students “by a gendered, non-binary, or plural pronoun” would violate her Christian faith.
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Public schools are child abuse
I hope she wins
I hope the teacher sues the school for big bucks
Public schools are child abuse
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True but those abused kids will be abusing US in a few years if they get the chance a la woke agenda, identity politics, forced masking etc.
UC Berkeley settles landmark free speech lawsuit, will pay $70,000 to conservative group (12.4.18)
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
So there is hope for Christian teacher.
Insights welcome.
I hope and pray she wins. This is a Winston Smith 2 + 2 = 5 situation.
If the school system had a policy in place, had given these kids the belief that their mental illness would be euphemized via pronoun fascism, and a teacher then continued repeatedly to call them the "dead name", that actually is bullying and harassment.
That said, it's illogical, destructive, ludicrous and flat wrong to punish a teacher who merely "misgenders" by accident, or as in this case, was never even given the Orwellian pronoun training.
Therefore I, too, hope she wins this case.
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