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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I 100% believe this story. I'm in Florida and this state followed suit. It's now in statute that a teacher can only use a nickname or any other name for a kid if a parent fills out a specific form (I guess, oddly, in this case it might have helped.) In the guidance from the school, it reads that, "for example, if your child's name is Robert and they wish to go by Rob." Which of course is utter BS and no teacher on this planet is going to ask for a form to call a kid Rob instead of Robert. There's all kinds of new rules for schools and teachers, and it's 100% directed at trans kids. It's so sick, the hatred dripping from every word of the text. But we're just two days into school and teachers are ignoring it, according to my daughter.[/quote]

Is this what that rule is about? I live in Florida too and don't understand why we need the form for a nickname. The law is about students enrolled in school under a name that's different from their legal name. This is about the enrollment name vs. the legal name. I don't see anything in this law regarding nicknames.

So my child's legal name is John Doe. I enroll him as John Doe. He prefers to be called Jack. No problem.

My child's legal name is John Doe. I enroll him as Jack Doe. Now we need the form.

To me, it looks like someone is misinterpreting the law to require the form in the first scenario.
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