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Eugene

(61,821 posts)
Thu Mar 10, 2022, 10:36 PM Mar 2022

Kansas teacher sues district over preferred pronouns policy

Source: Associated Press

Kansas teacher sues district over preferred pronouns policy

By MARGARET STAFFORD
March 9, 2022

A Kansas middle school teacher who was disciplined for refusing to use a student’s preferred first name and gender pronouns is suing the school district.

Fort Riley Middle School math teacher Pamela Ricard said in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the Geary County School District violated her constitutional rights and did not accommodate her Christian beliefs when it suspended her for three days.

Attorney Mark Edwards said the district would have no comment on the lawsuit. The school is located in Fort Riley, a U.S. Army base that’s 130 miles (210 kilometers) west of Kansas City.

Ricard, who has taught at the school since 2005, was reprimanded and suspended in April 2021 for addressing a student as “miss” to avoid using the student’s preferred first name after Picard was told that the student used he/him pronouns.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/science-religion-education-lawsuits-kansas-9a6a3353779b49ef2bdb2951685fac33

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Kansas teacher sues district over preferred pronouns policy (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2022 OP
Teacher? More like fucking whiny snowflake... IngridsLittleAngel Mar 2022 #1
Thank you I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2022 #4
You're welcome... IngridsLittleAngel Mar 2022 #5
Thank you for being you,too I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2022 #6
She should resign from public school teaching and get a job with her church. Nt spooky3 Mar 2022 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2022 #3
 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
1. Teacher? More like fucking whiny snowflake...
Thu Mar 10, 2022, 10:41 PM
Mar 2022

Who's the child here - the students, or Pamela "Waaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!!!!" Ricard?

Save your money and save your time, you teacher of bigotry... Resign. Forget the lawsuit. Just fucking quit. That way you can be replaced with a real teacher.

And you know what? I'm running out of words to say... So I'll sum this up by saying to Ricard and her ilk: WILL YOU FUCKING NAZIS GO AWAY AND QUIT ABUSING THE TRANS COMMUNITY?! WE ARE TRYING TO LIVE OUR OWN LIVES! WE DON'T NEED YOU AND YOUR SHIT!

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