06-08-2024, 05:32 PM
(06-07-2024, 06:18 AM)K218b Wrote: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...nouns.html
The student called another teacher who tried to argue the parents of the students gave their permission to be called by another name. The student is a boy identifying as a girl.
Then as the teacher wasn't going to change his mind the Principal stepped in and said the teacher is not welcome back to the school after all he did. Then he was escorted out of the school by the Vice-Principal.
And that's the second time the teacher was fired for the same reason! A similar incident occurred during the spring semester at another school in the same district, Triumph High School. The Principal asked him to leave the premises because he wasn't obviously fit to teach.
I wonder if the education authorities should take the matter further. The teacher refused to call a boy who identified as a girl with another name and a girl who identified as a boy with another name. These teachers deserve not only to be fired but they shouldn't be anywhere near children, let alone be their teachers and mentors. Shame of him! He should be banned from the profession.
I think that anyone entering the profession needs to respect kids -- and this includes calling them by their preferred name.
I experienced SIMILAR problems -- I would ask teachers to call me by my preferred name (since my "birth certificate name" was a source of bullying.) It's not a hard request -- it's a simple accommodation.
Those of you who go by your middle name rather than your first name may also run into this (my husband runs into this all the time) -- it's jarring to be called by a name you don't use.
In fact, calling my husband by his first name (after hie introduced himself with the name he uses and handed over his drivers' license, which shows his Legal First Name) has lost several sales people a sale.
So if that teacher was able to call adults by the name they prefer... I don't see the problem with calling a kid by the name they prefer.
