Jesus fucking Christ. When I was in middle school in the southern Midwest, on the first day of school I had the teachers straight up ask if anyone had a preferred name other than the one on their records. Unprompted. And no one gave a shit.
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if a teacher pulls an angry freudian slip and yells at you, but calls you by the regular classroom troublemaker's name by mistake, they can get fired?
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I wonder if this law was written to target transgender students but instead it's now affecting cis gender kids who can't go by their nick name any more and now teachers are losing their jobs for using nick names on their students they prefer.
Transphobia also affects cis people just like how homophobia can affect straight people because they recieve harassment if they're mistaken as gay like how my brother faced racism by his math teacher because she thought he was Native.
This would be leopards eating faces if the teacher voted this in and the parents who are protesting.
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America is a broken country
The worst thing though is that you spread your poison to the rest of the world too
There are cunts in many countries salivating at the opportunity to be cruel, and (wrongly) the world still looks at the US as an example
Decent people see it as a warning
I agree America is broken and there are far too many broken people within its borders, but I’d have to state that Russia and Israel have also done a bang up job whipping up that poison.
The bonus is that they are working on that elsewhere too.
“She is irreplaceable, not only a good teacher, but significantly more importantly she is the kindest and most caring person I have ever met in my life,” one supporter commented.
"Kindness and caring have no place in the classroom" - conservatives probably
My mom's (teacher) old boss (principal) literally told her that she shouldn't even know what the kids do after they leave school, basically saying she shouldn't care about the kids.
Like why the fuck else do you become a teacher?!
Probably because the most powerful conservatives all got to grow up in abusive boarding schools that disfigured their souls, deleted their empathy, and taught them how to savagely bully their way into power, humanity be damned.
Source: Trailer for Boarding on Insanity
Conservatives, absolutely. They see empathy as a weakness.
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I think the worst part about this story is that you know that kid's parents are exactly the bigots you think they are, and now the child has learned a valuable lesson that they are completely alone, unloved, and no one will help them.
It's terrible that Florida is doing this to teachers, but it's worse for the kids.
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I remember when I was in school and teachers would ask each kid on day 1 how they would prefer to be named. This was in the 80s and 90s. In Texas.
There was nothing wrong with it then, nor is there anything wrong with it now.
What has changed is the vitriol and hate that has erupted against our trans brothers and sisters.
My stereotypical old guy class teacher in rural Hungary who was a local prominent party member of Orbán's party and a devout Christian had no problems with that either.
This has never been a problem.
I ask everybody what they prefer to be called and how they pronounce it if it's not clear to me. It's just polite.
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I spent my entire 9th grade (1991) as Kevin. My name is not, nor resembles, Kevin. 🤷♂️
Sure thing, Kevin
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this could be the backstory of your username, my name is Barry Cuda ms Roberts
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Well then, we need to fire every teacher who uses "Bob" instead of "Robert" or "Liz" instead of "Elizabeth" then. Only then will they realize how stupid this is.
I've known a lot of people who go by their middle names because their first name is a family name (who they hate). Like if you call them by their first name, it's the equivalent of dead naming.
Some of those people are anti-trans.
I can definitely imagine that: there were so many “James” in my family. Then again, my brothers middle name was much worse so that may be a reason he never tried
you can't have a rational approach to this. these people love the hypocrisy. they bathe in it. wallow in like a pig in shit.
That may be what happened in this case.
Yes, that is certainly an intellectually consistent way to handle it.
Unfortunately, these laws were always meant to be selectively enforced, making the only real rule that whatever feels wrong to these people in the moment is against the law.
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