9 yr old told off for calling non-binary teacher Sir

A fully grown man claiming he isn't a man is being ridiculous though.

Don't insist on kids using gendered terms for teachers and it avoids this. Miss and Mr and sir etc are so old fashioned and unnecessarily gendered. Just use names.

List this under definitely didn’t happen. It’s like X on here at times. I’m sure people make things up

Treating people with 'dignity and respect' is not the same as kowtowing to every demand they make

I agree wholeheartedly with your comment. It wasn’t the fact of the telling off that got to me, it was the thought of a man wearing women’s clothes in a classroom. I don’t give a flying f*ck what this teacher does in his private life, but to come to a classroom to teach in women’s clothes is beyond sick! Why is the school allowing it?
It’s a good job I am not involved personally in this. I would have it all over the papers, especially local ones, in a flash (no pun intended!)

Some parents have poor self-regulation skills. I can see this turning into another teacher bashing thread.

I hope that this isn’t true because I know from experience it’s hard to switch to them/they pronouns and I’m a lot older than 9.

While I accept that NB people will face ridicule for being NB, most children aren’t going to use terms like him to be nasty. I see it as no different to kids forgetting a female teacher’s new married surname or using mum.

I’m not even sure how to say Mx

It's actually a small percentage of trans people who opt for such surgeries and in any case if the person is of sound mind then it's their decision. I'm firmly against a person undergoing such life changing surgery without extensive counselling.
As for stating that 'there are only 2 genders and we shouldn't be teaching children any different' then my response would be that if a person feels that they were born in the wrong body Maybe we should try to be more open minded? Should we be more critical of gay people too? After all, human beings are designed to procreate, so should we be less accepting of them too?
My whole point of commenting was to offer the idea that treating a fellow human being with dignity and respect should be a given. As for harming children, that's utterly ridiculous 'children should ignore the evidence of their own eyes'? So children should make judgments on a person based on what they can see, rather engaging their brain and considering that there are different types of people, not just 'man' and 'woman' what about 'person'? 'human'?
I stand firm in my opinion that it doesn't matter what you think about who a person is, what gender they are etc, but that people are treated with dignity and respect.

I am a female teacher, I dress mostly in skirts/dresses, always wear make up etc and am 5ft. Students still often call me Sir

So now, children of primary and junior school age have to worry about their teachers pronouns?
Ffs.

How are you supposed to pronounce Mx anyway? Like Mix but with no vowel sound except a bit of a grunt?

So we've had:

1. It didn't happen
2. It did happen, but it was all the child's fault - they're annoying, being deliberately provocative, a teenager, disrespectful
3. It did happen, and the child was 9 and not being provocative, but they need to learn to comply with whatever adults tell them they must do, even the worrying ones
4. It did happen, but the adult's feelings are much more important than any child - the child is only there as a prop to the adult after all

We move away from long established protocols when the interests of wider society are served by this move.

Who's interests are being served when we tell 9 year olds off for recognising a man as a man?

I'll be glad when this nonsense ends. He shouldn't be foisting his fetish (crossdressing) and non existent "identity" on to the children.

Children aged 9 still believe in Father Christmas. Of course they don’t comprehend Queer Theory in their classrooms and nor should they.

The teacher needs to find another job. Using children to validate himself is a red flag. He should not even be there to begin with. How did he get past Safer Recruitment processes? I’d be asking the school this question.

Would that be all teachers getting a formal written warning for telling off a pupil when the parent doesn’t agree with them or just teachers who identify as non binary? Plus all we have is the third hand account of a nine year old whose definition of Very Cross we cannot quantify. Let’s get some facts before a formal written warning don’t you think?

If this is true (and I have my doubts but the way the world is atm who knows?)
I would be removing my child from that school - I'd rather home school than send them anywhere that kowtows to this bollocks.

But why should these children be participants in this man's nonsense?
Would they be expected to call a teacher who's a furry "your meowsome"?

Maybe it's ..

Ris
Surs
Suss
Mate
Ir - sounds like err
Teacher

@Nowherecitizen

Just as well he wasn't teaching when I was a kid. There were several occasions where I called the teacher 'mummy' by mistake. I wasn't the only one.

When my children were at school (mid 1990s to early 2010s), I wanted the teachers to teach them facts, skills and (ideally) critical thinking, along with modelling respectful and appropriate behaviour. I wanted them to be people my children could look up to for their intelligence and common sense. I didn't expect my children's heads to be filled up with absurd demands to use newly coined forms of address and non-sex-based pronouns. It's a distraction.

Dear me...the world has gotten out of hand. Poor kid.

It’s not a mistake for a student to use ‘Sir’ for a male teacher.

Trans ideology is highly contested and harmful and should not be taught in schools.