Um... According to the letter, the boys' families were informed that the complaint and investigation was because the boys didn't call another student by their preferred pronouns of "they" and "them." Can you imagine going after boys for this? |
Actually I can if those boys were severely bullying the other student. I'd bet my house the kids who got punished were savagely bullying the other kid and the mouth-breathing parents decided to make it about "hurrrrrrrr durrrrrrrrrr pronouns!!!" |
No reason for any reasonable person to pay attention to this issue, then, unless they are mouth-breathers, rather than sophisticated nose-breathers. Just check which orifice you breathe from and then select the appropriate reaction. |
Can you imagine excusing making threats that a police chief called “extremely vulgar, hateful and disturbing” for any reason? |
How do you think it will affect the response to protests in front of SCOTUS homes? DC/MD police, National Guard, or …? This is getting nuttier and nuttier. |
I’d need more context. Gah! I call my kids by their wrong names often — can they report me? |
Maybe pronouns shouldn't be the focus in school? We had lived just fine in progressive cities with thriving LGBTQ communities without pronouns for many decades. |
Did you give the same excuses for bullies in the 70s, 80s, and 90s who shouted "F@ggot!" at kids back then? I'm getting that same bully energy from you. |
Maybe no one should excuse making threats that a police chief called “extremely vulgar, hateful and disturbing” for any reason? |
It's funny how pronouns had become a thing but are still making LOADS of people uncomfortable to use them and unwilling to.
We get a bunch of younger companies selling us products and doing presentations, Q&A, instruction, etc. when they do introductions they always ask to state your name, pronouns, and then whatever relevant info about your role, interest, etc. Younger employees who are on the perkier side are quickly blabbering their pronouns right after their name, it feels natural to them. Middle age and older employees and foreigners just simply ignore the instruction to provide pronouns. Nobody was fired or reprimanded in any way. Why are we so adamant on pushing this in schools and making a big deal about "misgendering"? Why all this focus on kids while it's still completely irrelevant in the adult world where people have mostly formed their gender identities? |
‘The hate is just too much’: Faced with threats and invective — from their neighbors — a record number of Minnesota school board members have quit https://www.the74million.org/article/minnesota-school-board-members-quit-threats-trolls-hate/ |
A Brevard County man attended a protest at Brevard Public Schools yesterday where the issue of mask mandates for schools was to be voted on. The unidentified man was recorded on several videos posted on Facebook threatening several citizens, including healthcare workers, and making anti-Semitic, and homophobic comments. https://thespacecoastrocket.com/florida-man-making-threats-at-brevard-school-board-meeting-admits-to-storming-capitol-may-be-wanted-by-fbi/ |
Nobody should be making threats, was this specific school district known to have such incidents before, was it generally unhinged crowd of parents that rebelled so years ago for different reasons? If not, then you have to ask what exactly causes this type of conflict to arise and try to address this problem. |
“They were going to come at me like a freight train, and I was going to have to beg for mercy," Jenkins, a Democrat on Brevard County's School Board, explained about the threats she received recently. "There have been postcards sent to my home, vile phone calls, voicemails, emails and it started to escalate in April when the first protest showed up at my house." Jenkins made national headlines last week after she revealed during a school board meeting how her attacks have included people protesting outside of her home with guns, even complaints to the state's child welfare agency alleging abuse against her daughter. "I have to take a DCF investigator to her playdate so they can go underneath her clothing and check for burn marks. That's a credible threat," she told colleagues.” https://www.wptv.com/news/local-news/investigations/school-board-members-believe-ongoing-threats-harassment-part-of-organized-effort |