Posted on 03/09/2022 1:08:05 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A Kansas middle school teacher who was disciplined for refusing to use a student’s preferred first name and gender pronouns is suing the school district.
Fort Riley Middle School math teacher Pamela Ricard said in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the Geary County School District violated her constitutional rights and did not accommodate her Christian beliefs when it suspended her for three days.
The district did not immediately return messages left Wednesday seeking comment on the lawsuit. The school is located in Fort Riley, a U.S. Army base that’s 130 miles (210 kilometers) west of Kansas City.
Ricard, who has taught at the school since 2005, was reprimanded and suspended in April 2021 for addressing a student as “miss” to avoid using the student’s preferred first name after Picard was told that the student used he/him pronouns.
Ricard believed addressing the student as “Miss (legal/enrolled last name)” respected the student while also upholding Ricard’s religious convictions, according to the lawsuit.
A school counselor had told Ricard the student preferred a first name different from his legal and enrolled name. The student had never told Ricard of the preference, but a classmate told Ricard the student preferred he/him pronouns, according to the lawsuit, filed by Kriegshauser Ney Law Group.
The suit says Ricard believes that God assigns gender at birth and any policy requiring her to use language that is different from the student’s biological sex “actively violates Ms. Ricard’s religious beliefs.”
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Students who correct teachers about the use of names has serious issues. My name was always butchered by teachers and I did not care.
You have the right to speak what you want to say, not the right to hear what you want to hear.
You probably weren’t talking to them during your whole verbal interchange, if you catch my drift.
They all seem to be schizoid and picking up the latest fad in their psychosis. If a real extraterrestrial came here, they would claim that they are extraterrestrials also.
Perhaps six years ago I really upset a friend of a friend by insisting that I would not use pronouns at all. They are strictly a convenient form of reference and do not really add much conversation. FOF really went into a tizzy (apparently resenting inability to control me) and Deb unfriended me sometime later.
“Short, Fat, Old & Grumpy”
(When I get tired of these, I’ll start on the rest of the 7 Dwarfs)
Fortunately, ignorant people are not allowed to command Army installations. So you need not apply.
In Kansas, public schools located on military installations are part of the Kansas school systems, but are organized into it’s own school district, with a school district superintendent and a school board. The military has some oversight responsibilites, mostly regarding real estate, facilities and budgeting input. In lieu of property taxes, these districts are funded through a Federal payment that reflects the numbers of military dependents that attend the school district. These districts have to follow Kansas law and regulations.
These kind of problems is the reason that many School boards throughout the state were voted out in the last election. Our Democrat Governor used to be a Republican school teacher.
My son went to this school and my son and I went to the Ft. Riley Elementary School.
Well arnt you a POS.
Lol!
Umm - I’ve already taken that one. Along with Your Majesty, and Your Highness. I’m thinking of taking Your Profundity, and Your Magnificence.
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