Great. Now nicknames will be illegal. No more Max or Jim or Bill. It's either Maximillian or James or you're fired (and no one cares about poor ol' Bill).
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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Just when I thought Florida couldn’t get any dumber… damn, was I wrong.
Guys, everyone that read this, remember, Ted Cruz is his preferred name. His real name is Rafael. If you don't want to get in trouble, make sure to call him Rafael every chance you get.
Rafael Edward Cruz, the Canadian-American, US Senator.
It’s lowkey appropriate that he was born in Alberta.
Another immigrant, taking senatorial jobs from hard-working Americans! Damn you, Rafael!
Florida is purposefully trying to destroy it's own public school system. They make being a public school teacher so undesirable, and then complain about a "teacher shortage". Of course nobody wants to be a public school teacher in Florida. You can get fired for how you address someone?
So we’ve reached the point where calling someone what they want to be called can cost you your job. Imagine getting fired for basic human decency. 🤔
I go by my middle name. Not because I wanted to, but because that is what my immediate family chose. I became comfortable with it. So I decided in certain settings to let people use my first name.
99% of my extended family doesn’t know my first name. Some of them are teachers. If I had been in their class, they’d be in trouble. Fucking stupid law.
Fucking stupid ~~law~~ state
Bro wtf kind of a name is James Donald Bowman? Seriously, "Bow Man"? Dude can't even lift a bow. 🤣 This is supposed to be a "Vice President"?
We need people to find this couch-fucker and start saying "Yo, James, you couch-fucker!" and tell the journalist to start asking "Mr. Bowman, when is the last time you've held a bow?" 😂
No, not bow as in "bow and arrow". It's bow as in "bow down and kiss my feet, little bitch!"
When you look at it in the right context it is a perfect name for him.
Maybe a "bowjob",
Are teachers in Florida now required to call each student by their full legal name every time?
In Florida, students have this one cool trick to get their teachers fired. Thanks, Florida!
Also, is that government punishing speech?
“Brevard Public Schools (BPS) was made aware that a teacher at Satellite High School had been referring to a student by a name other than their legal name, without parental permission when the parent reached out to us. This directly violates state law and the district’s standardized process for written parental consent.
“BPS supports parents’ rights to be the primary decision-makers in their children’s lives, and Florida law affirms their right to be informed.
Cruel, vindictive, inhumane and depraved control by the parents. The child is in danger and now knows that even trusted adults can't be trusted when their parents go digging. Without a doubt the child is being verbally abused for daring to control their own identity.
Disgusting law, disgusting people and disgusting country.
Just more reasons to never go to Florida again.
Damn.
She should leave Gilead and join us up here in Canada. Staple the news article to her immigration paperwork. It's a badge of honour. How can you all have pride in a country that does this shit? Stay safe down there!
Staple it to job applications too. I suspect many blue state and private schools would see it as a commendation.
It's not great in blue areas either, just minus the sht like Florida is doing. But they are generally underpaid in general, in the west had a former coworker refuse a contract with a district because the pay is very low, like starting 25k in a 5-7year contract, and no choice of districts.
Private school are worst, you may or may not work some.weeks.
I only have one data point but my kid's teachers (high school) have always both called my kid their preferred name and pronouns. I did get "the letter" this year to send back saying it was ok. Ridiculous.
This is just such a mess, why oh why.
What I really and truly can't understand are the parents. How can you be THAT controlling? What do they think it's going to accomplish?
For some, children are slaves or photocopies of themselves. To be anything else, is an insult.
Exhibit A: Musk, and how he reacted to Vivian Wilson.
So we can't call people "Jim" "Liz" "Bob" "Sam" anymore?
Especially Bob. What kind of name is Bob? Is that what he does when he encounters a glory hole? Bob?
Of course not. They are Jimothy, Lizothy, Bobothy, and Samothy, as was ordained by Christ himself
Teachers, like all employees, are expected to follow the law.
No. If a law is unjust and immoral it is the imperitive of everyone at the district to disobey it.
Just because it is law, does not make it right.
2 of the 14 kids in my sons class go by different names and have since kindergarten. They aren’t trans gender, they just use different names from the ones on the registration forms and birth certificates.
His is it any different. Also goddamn nicknames should be outlawed. That state is so fucked it’s not even funny anymore.
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