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. 🤔
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!
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).
“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.
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?
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.
I spent my entire 9th grade (1991) as Kevin. My name is not, nor resembles, Kevin. 🤷♂️
Sure thing, Kevin
Such a Kevin thing to say.
That’s so Kevin…
Banana.
Shut up kevin
Kevin, you’re such a disease
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.
It’s just polite.
And so MAGAs hate it. Politeness is weakness! Be rude and hostile always!
But also never ever insult them! They have feelings too, ya know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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.
Absolutely. Until I was in my 20s everyone I knew referred to me by a nickname. Everyone I’ve known since before that time still does. The only purpose behind this is to target a vulnerable group for cruelty.
this could be the backstory of your username, my name is Barry Cuda ms Roberts
Just when I thought Florida couldn’t get any dumber… damn, was I wrong.
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.
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.
She have a fund we can donate 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
Conservatives, absolutely. They see empathy as a weakness.
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
But guns sure do!
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
lawstate
In Florida, students have this one cool trick to get their teachers fired. Thanks, Florida!
Also, is that government punishing speech?
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 can’t talk to you; I don’t know your middle name.”
I? You? Pronouns??
You’re right, Comrade
This one agrees with you. This one believes you are on to something.
The BossDj agrees
hello fellow human student.
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
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.
The actual rule is that any nickname must be approved by the parent before able to be used by the teacher
Ya, but it’s only going to be enforced for trans students.
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.
Imagine if she said Palestinians deserve to live.
A monster like that should be dragged into the street and shot!
/s cause I’m certain there are real monsters who believe the above.
Yeah there’s a bunch of them in the Knesset
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.
