High School Teacher Fired For Refusing To Use A Student’s Preferred Pronoun

This is ridiculous.

Last week, a high school teacher in Virginia was fired after refusing to use a student’s preferred pronoun. The student is a female, but she suddenly decided that she’s a guy now so…

The unanimous decision from the five members of the West Point School Board to fire Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at West Point High School, which has roughly 265 students, followed a four-hour hearing. The board only discussed the case for an hour before rendering their decision.

As Richmond.com reports, Vlaming, 47, had taught at the high school for almost seven years and had taught the student in the 2017-18 school year, when the student still identified as female. Over the summer of 2018, the girl decided she was a boy. This school year, Vlamming addressed the girl by the new name she had chosen, but would not use the girl’s preferred new pronoun because it conflicted with Vlaming’s Christian faith.

A few things to note:

1.) He wasn’t a new teacher. He taught at the high school for years and had the student in his class WHILE SHE WAS A FEMALE.
2.) She randomly decided she was a man over the summer, and the teacher agreed to call her by her new name.

That’s not good enough? I mean, that’s how I handle those situations. I will comply with the new name, but I can’t knowingly refer to someone as the wrong sex.

Oh wait. This story gets more ridiculous. It doesn’t even sound like this teacher was going out of his way to call her a “she” just to be mean.

The student claimed she felt singled out. But the only reference to Vlamming actively calling the girl by the female pronoun rather than her name, according to witnesses, came on Halloween, when the student was using a virtual reality headset. As the student was about to a wall, Vlaming told students to stop “her.” That incident prompted a discussion with administrators, Vlaming said he would not use the student’s preferred pronoun, He was subsequently suspended.

A year ago, the school district changed its nondiscrimination policies, although Vlaming’s lawyer, Shawn Voyles, pointed out during the hearing that no specific guidance on the use of gender pronouns was mentioned.

West Point High Principal Jonathan Hochman, who testified he had instructed Vlaming to use the student’s new pronoun, said, “I can’t think of a worse way to treat a child than what was happening.” West Point schools Superintendent Laura Abel stated, “That discrimination then leads to creating a hostile learning environment. And the student had expressed that. The parent had expressed that. They felt disrespected.” The school district’s attorney, Stacy Haney, snapped, “Does this board expect its employees to follow its policies or not?”

We now live in a world where it’s considered “discriminatory” and “hostile” to refer to an individual as their biological gender.

Insanity.

h/t Daily Wire