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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:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arth; commies; education; pronouns; school; woke
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To: montag813
They canned her. But Ricard refused to back down. She sued the Geary County School District

THIS IS THE WAY TO DEAL WITH COMMIES RUNNING OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS. SUE THEM. SUE THEM EACH AND EVERY TIME. THEN SUE THEM AGAIN.

21 posted on 09/06/2022 1:35:18 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's 'WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE' speech is history's Jimmah Carter's BIG RABBIT blunder..)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

‘An employer can not fire you for not lying.’

a private employer can fire you because he/she doesn’t like the way you part your hair...


22 posted on 09/06/2022 1:36:50 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: blueunicorn6
Good.
23 posted on 09/06/2022 1:37:08 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: IrishBrigade
Yes, they can fire you for that as that is not a protected activity.

But demanding an employee to commit a societal acknowledged wrong as a condition of employment will end up with you in court.

As a general rule, you can not demand an employee; lie, steal, murder, have sex with monkeys (or anything else), talk back to their mother or not wash their hands after using the bathroom as a condition of continuing employment.

Exception is if it is in their employment contract that they knowingly signed of their own free will.

And even that may not hold up in court.

24 posted on 09/06/2022 1:45:55 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: Getready

‘And too busy to care parents.’

I’m not sure that is the case; it depends on how invested the parents are of not offending the prevailing societal zeitgeist....my parents were hyper about me not conforming to the Wally Cleaver image, in that it might degrade their standing among the neighbors...


25 posted on 09/06/2022 1:46:13 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: montag813

“After the court’s ruling, school officials relented and agreed to pay Ricard a $95,000 settlement to avoid the wrath of a jury, and the case was withdrawn.”

She needs to go forward with the suit to help set a precedent.


26 posted on 09/06/2022 1:49:02 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback for how the election & Covid was handled.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

‘But demanding an employee to commit a societal acknowledged wrong as a condition of employment will end up with you in court.’

except that you neglect that the ‘acknowleged wrong’ is in this case part of the approved curriculum, and in no sense is it considered ‘wrong’ in the current public education monolith...


27 posted on 09/06/2022 1:50:36 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

not too busy to care.

But unable to effect change because of systems involved.


28 posted on 09/06/2022 1:50:54 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: castlebrew
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.


They aren't helping these kids by playing into their fantasy games. Legally, a person has a legal name. A person may also have one legal alias, e.g. Sir Richard Starkey is commonly known as Ringo Starr. Parents need to know if their child wants to be known by a different name. Excluding parents from all of this, without a very good reason, is simply wrong, very wrong.
29 posted on 09/06/2022 1:52:37 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“An employer can not fire you for not lying.”

Unless it’s the government.


30 posted on 09/06/2022 1:59:57 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: butlerweave

No one must adhere to the psychotic delusions of a mentally ill person.


31 posted on 09/06/2022 2:02:34 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: montag813

People need to stop this pronoun nonsense.


32 posted on 09/06/2022 2:03:12 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Missouri gal
If allowed to stand the communist goal of the state owning the children is achieved.

Yep, we have to stop this idiocy before it gets any worse.

33 posted on 09/06/2022 2:13:27 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: cymbeline
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.

That's what I would do.

34 posted on 09/06/2022 2:14:34 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: cymbeline

Re: “general purpose solution.”

NO!


36 posted on 09/06/2022 2:26:17 PM PDT by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: NoLibZone

$95,000? They are cheap “school officials.”
They miss-placed a comma and forgot a few zeros.
The penalty should be $9,500,000, and not a penny less!

$95,000 is chump change for firing the teacher in this matter.

Don’t take the chump change, go for their lungs as you should.


37 posted on 09/06/2022 2:32:47 PM PDT by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: IrishBrigade
Does not matter if it is part of the "approved curriculum" and what the public education behemoth thinks (if they even do so which I doubt deeply) is irrelevant.

You still can not force an employee to lie as a condition of continued employment unless you want to go to court and be forced to pay them a great deal of money and look like a total fool in front of the entire country.

38 posted on 09/06/2022 2:39:13 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
This school is on the base, everyone of those kids is a military dependent. It is operated by the Geary County School district (that's who she sued).
39 posted on 09/06/2022 2:40:37 PM PDT by existtoexcel
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To: MercyFlush
Actually even there they can't do it.

If you lie you lie of your own free will.

40 posted on 09/06/2022 2:40:51 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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