I don't think this qualifies as a diary so much as a heads up on some more atrocious behavior in TX and on the interwebs with an opportunity for you to help set the record straight.
I saw this story on Daily Caller: Texas Parents Balk When Transgender Teacher Shows Up To Teach Their Fifth Grade.
The article was actually more even-toned than I would have anticipated, but many of the comments are atrocious. I felt compelled to chime in. Et vous?
A substitute teacher in Lumberton, Texas is claiming that officials at a middle school fired her after parents expressed concerns that a transgender substitute teacher is less than ideal for a fifth-grade classroom.
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The basic complaint parents have is that they don’t want a transgender sub around their 10- and 11-year-old kids because the kids could be confused.
A bright spot was reported:
“I’m more concerned about straight predatory teachers rather than I am someone who lives an alternative private alternate lifestyle,” Jammie Marcantel, another fifth-grade parent, told KFDM.
HELLO!
Some comments:
Back into the closet please!
I am so tired of being polite, so _uck you! Close the closet door behind you!
Tolerating this person and trusting him/her are two different things.
School is tough enough for some without a confused wanna-be-other-than-I-am person standing before them. Students need to be taught the rules, the rules of logic, mathematics, the rules of grammar and punctuation, rules of right and wrong. Not the exceptions. Good for the folks. I'd go a bit further with a school that employes such as the likes of… of… him.
A minute of your time to pitch in?
UPDATE:
TDDVandy has reported below that she has been reinstated.