The director had demanded that teachers use the person’s chosen pronouns wherever possible.
A Virginia professor who was fired six years ago for calling a human woman student “he/him” will receive an almost$ 600,000 arrangement.
As reported by The College Fix, French teacher Peter Vlaming ( pictured ) was fired by the West Point School Board in December of 2018 based on a policy , essentially invented “out of thin air”.
After being informed of the incident, the scholar requested a meeting with the teacher after Vlaming unintentionally used” she” in reference to the student in “his” presence.
After the student and parents asked to leave their guiding principles and beliefs out of this, Vlaming next met with them, and one of them demanded that he simply use the female pronouns as needed.
After that, Vlaming’s main instructed him to “do whatever the kids ask,” and the associate superintendent provided him with information from the National Center for Transgender Equality regarding “pronoun use.”
After another word slip-up by Vlaming, the kids withdrew the learner from his course. While the city investigated whether he had violated its “harassment or reprisal” plan, Velaming was given a one-month suspension.
Regardless of location or framework, regardless of location or context, Vlaming requested that students use adult adjectives for the student. When Vlaming said he could hardly “in great consciousness” comply with such a requirement, the university board , fired him for violations of city equality plan.
The West Point School Board’s arrangement with Vlaming includes$ 575, 000 in damages and attorneys ‘ expenses, as well as the treatment of his dismissal from his history, according to a media release from Alliance Defending Freedom.
Individually, the panel consented to” change its policies to adhere to the new Virginia training guidelines established by Governor. that uphold important parental and free speech rights.
ADF Center for Academic Freedom Director Tyson Langhofer said” ]Vlaming ] was n’t fired for something he said, he was fired for something he could n’t say. Under Virginia Constitution and Commonwealth law, the school board violated his First Amendment right.
No school board or official in the government may chastise someone for speaking out against them, Langhofer continued, noting that Vlaming” could not in good conscience talk messages that he knew were misleading.”
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Photo: Alliance Defending Freedom
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