They want to make it mandatory
Posted on 05/29/2021 5:29:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In Virginia, Loudoun County Public Schools officials were warned Friday to revoke their suspension of a teacher for declining to use students’ preferred pronouns or face further legal action.
Tanner Cross, who taught at Leesburg Elementary School, was suspended after speaking publicly May 26 during a school board meeting in opposition to the system’s proposed policy that teachers must use the pronouns preferred by students rather than the pronouns consistent with their biological sex.
Cross was informed May 28 that he was being suspended “pending an investigation of allegation that [he] engaged in conduct that had a disruptive impact on the operations of Leesburg Elementary School.”
On Friday, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer told school officials in a letter that they must either revoke the suspension and excise all records of it from Cross’s personnel file or he will take further legal action.
“The First Amendment prohibits retaliation against public employees for speaking on matters of public concern. ‘A teacher’s exercise of his right to speak on issues of public importance may not furnish the basis for his dismissal from public employment.’ Pickering v. Bd. of Educ. of Twp. High Sch. Dist. 205,391 U.S. 563, 574 (1968),” Langhofer explained in his letter to school officials.
“Mr. Cross’s expression during public comment time at an open school board meeting was undoubtedly expression in his private capacity on a matter of public concern. Id. (teachers’ public expression regarding school board actions is protected speech); Janus v. Am. Fed’n of State, Cnty. & Mun. Emps., 138 S. Ct. 2448, 2476 (2018) (listing examples of matters of public concern); see also, Meriwether v.Hartop, 992 F.3d 492, 506-07 (6th Cir. 2021) (teachers’ use of pronouns is protected speech on a matter of public concern),” Langhofer continued.
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Too many negatives in that headline. It’s like a semantic roller coaster.
Epoch Times gets their writers from the bottom of the class.
All this over using a pronoun. The adminstrators and anyone else involved in suspending this teacher should lose their jobs, pay any associated court costs and be barred from ever working in government again, in any capcity.
i wanna see somebody get to court and make a doctor or somebody swear under oath whether these things are real females or not, then let the games begin
This is interesting. If you have the right to a preferred pronoun, do I have the right to call you my preferred descriptor? Can I just refer to you as POS?
They want to make it mandatory
I guess that “Asshole”-—”Bitch” ——and “Hey You” are not acceptable substitutes???
If Bruce Jenner can be a woman, then I can be 35.
FFS! Elementary school? Like they know a pronoun from a protractor.
The Communist Purge Is Growing Exponentially & The American People Just Bend Over and Spread Them!
Americans are demonstrating the appropriate subservience:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Communists rejoice...
I’m sure most of the community supports the teacher. The school board should be dismissed.
Very good point.
No different than 1984's O'Brian holding up his hand, with four fingers showing, and demanding that Winston agree that he sees five fingers.
Regards,
No.
All this over mandatory compulsion over what you must say when talking to any other person.
We either have freedom of speech or we do not.
Free speech don’t ya know!
Sick freaks is what I call em.
School board members emails, if you wish to contact them:
brenda.sheridan@lcps.org
atoosa.reaser@lpcs.org
denise.corbo@lcps.org
harris.mahedavi@lcps.org
ian.serotkin@lcps.org
leslee.king@lcps.org
john.beatty@lcps.org
jeff.morse@lcps.org
beth.barts@lcps.org
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