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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This began as a thread about a high school student who wanted to be called by their chosen first name. It has descended into a discussion about a lot of other issues unrelated to the classroom.

But can't we all at least agree that a child can be accorded the respect of being called by their preferred name in a classroom setting?  It's a small thing.[/quote]

I generally agree, but I also think teachers are put in an impossible position these days. As described it sounds bad, but I have a great deal of sympathy for teachers trying to navigate all this. Sometimes they are going to get it wrong.

What I don’t think is that the child ended up in mental health crisis only because the teacher wouldn’t use the preferred name. Or, if that was the case, the child’s mental health was so fragile the child should not have been in school to begin with.

But yes, generally I agree with you. And for what it’s worth, I think the science around providing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children is not strong. [/quote]

Teachers will always get it wrong when they deliberately decide to ignore a child’s requested name. [/quote]

Assuming that was actually the case and the teacher was deliberately doing it. It sounds like this kid is mentally fragile if they ended up getting hospitalized. A lot of these kids have mental health issues that are not properly addressed. The parents are partly to blame if they didn’t inform the school about their child’s poor mental health and the mental downward spiral they were experiencing being called the wrong name. I can’t imagine the school wouldn’t make different accommodations for the student if they were informed of this. It was also the parent’s responsibility to officially change the name on the child’s school record. I’m not sure if that was even done which may have caused confusion for the teacher.
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Of course the teacher was deliberately doing it. They were the only teacher incapable of using the child’s requested name. And marked the child absent every day because of that. [/quote]

Did the family follow up with the school?  Was law enforcement ever involved due to the crime of truancy?  Was this child held back?[/quote]

I’m pretty sure the story is fake. The timing is off, and I think most parent would just request to switch classes. [/quote]

Pp, that’s what I thought but you never know.  If OP had answers, I’d probably believe them.  But too many inconsistencies.[/quote]

Regrettably it was all true. At this point this has just become a bit of fun for people playing detective, which is doing nothing but upsetting me because I know this kid.[/quote]

Why can’t you answer questions?

Seems like most reasonable parents would move their child from that class. [/quote]

I did answer questions.  I answered why this thread started in the present tense (an aha moment for people treating this situation like sport). I explained that the situation was resolved after the kid had a breakdown, which could have been due to ridicule at school or maybe the medication situation.  More Nancy Drews jumped in with another aha! that was the date of the ban for the relevant drugs.  Which caused me to have to post about when Texas Children's "paused" transgender care a year earlier due to actions of the governor. So you're the next up, and you want to know why the kid wasn't moved from class.

I am pretty sure after that hospitalization, he ended up with a different teacher. I cannot continue to interrogate my MIL about how the timing unfolded and couldn't something have been done sooner, whether this was an elective that could be dropped, etc.  I just do not know.

What everyone does know is that there are situations in which kids are ridiculed and abused in school that are not solved quickly enough to protect a child. "Why wasn't something done sooner" is so common as to be a cliche.[/quote]

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