I would rather get fried

[Anonymous]

Then dead name a student. I’m not sure what my school district will do with the 2022 model policies, but I will never dead name a student in my classroom.

[Anonymous]

So dramatic. Just teach them the facts you're there to teach them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then dead name a student. I’m not sure what my school district will do with the 2022 model policies, but I will never dead name a student in my classroom.

Hope you’re not teaching them grammar!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then dead name a student. I’m not sure what my school district will do with the 2022 model policies, but I will never dead name a student in my classroom.

Hope you’re not teaching them grammar!

Give it a rest, it’s a forum…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So dramatic. Just teach them the facts you're there to teach them.

What do you when you need to call on them?

[Anonymous]

What is dead naming?

[Anonymous]

Maybe you need to be in a different profession is that's the most important part of teaching to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is dead naming?

Calling someone by their birth name when they are trans

[Anonymous]

About 20 years ago a friend complained because her VA school would only call her DC the name on the birth certificate. The child wasn't trans but had a double name and the teacher would only use the first name. The teacher said it was VA law and refused the request to use the preferred name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About 20 years ago a friend complained because her VA school would only call her DC the name on the birth certificate. The child wasn't trans but had a double name and the teacher would only use the first name. The teacher said it was VA law and refused the request to use the preferred name.

Was there supposed to a point to your story?

[Anonymous]

You seem like a very compassionate person, OP. Good for you.

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher and I will support students in what they want to be called, but we all need to admit this rhetoric is way overdramatic. I have students who have chosen several different names and descriptors over the course of a school year and I don’t think we should consider it a terrible insult to forget what the current one is.

[Anonymous]

And meanwhile test scores continue to decline…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher and I will support students in what they want to be called, but we all need to admit this rhetoric is way overdramatic. I have students who have chosen several different names and descriptors over the course of a school year and I don’t think we should consider it a terrible insult to forget what the current one is.

Yes, but the student is LGTBQ+ and they live in a foster home so they don't really have parents. All I want is to respect them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher and I will support students in what they want to be called, but we all need to admit this rhetoric is way overdramatic. I have students who have chosen several different names and descriptors over the course of a school year and I don’t think we should consider it a terrible insult to forget what the current one is.

Yes, but the student is LGTBQ+ and they live in a foster home so they don't really have parents. All I want is to respect them.

Maybe you can find a creative work-around. Does the student have friends/allies in class? Perhaps you could call the student by their last name, and so as not to single that kid out, also have their friends agree to go by their last names as well. Maybe that's a crazy idea, but try to find a subversive way to stay within the rules. I would not call the child by a name they've actively rejected. That's just beyond disrespectful.