Non-binary teacher?

[Thompson198]

Name change.
I’ve got a 5 year old daughter due to go into year 2 in September. We’ve just been told that the teacher for next year is a non-binary/‘non-gender-conforming’ man who wants to be referred to by ‘Mx’ (pronounced mix) and they/them pronouns.
Quite a few of the parents have already complained and started looking for other places at local schools because of this.
what do you think?
My daughter has SEN and is one of the youngest in her class, I worry how she’s going to be able to keep up with the pronouns and understand this without us having to teach her about gender ideology at her age. My husband is extremely against teaching her gender ideology, especially so young, I’m not the most positive about it either but don’t feel as strongly as him. He also doesn’t want her being at the school in September but they have been very supportive for her so far and I’m concerned it might not be the same elsewhere.
Thoughts? How would you feel if this was your child’s teacher?

No. OP is

All of that fine.
i take it you don't work in a school, Mumble? Or you'd have more of an understanding of what we're worried about.

Now imagine you're a 6 year old with SEN and see if it's the same at all

Are any of those based on lies?

More false equivalency. Where’s my bingo card?

I'm a bit confused actually. The OP calls the teacher a 'non-binary' man, but who said that? Surely the school didn't put "non-binary man" in a letter?

Has anyone actually met them?

I dont know, I've never known a teacher in 21 years of parenting to ask a child to validate any of their ideologies. But you seem utterly adamant that this one ideology will be imposed on children, but no others.

We don’t teach young children that men can be women if they say they are .
Priests being revered and given special privileges/ access to children led to terrible consequences.
Those of us that care about children don’t let them believe lies that present safeguarding risks

You can use mine if you want, you'll just have to cross out "forcing their views on others", "based on a lie" and "He's saying he's not a man" on it and replace it with your own favourite catchphrases.

What DOES non binary mean ?

Christ taking your child out of school over this is terrible parenting on so many different levels

The kind of anecdote they will tell their shocked friends at a dinner party in adulthood, to underline how awful their parents were

Teachers obviously have titles but in my experience in working in secondary for 10 years is all women just get called Miss. Especially in large schools where you don’t know all the staffs name, they are just ‘miss’. No one says ‘I’m married you must call me Mrs’. It’s just the language everyone used.

I’m not sure you’re understanding how this bingo card works.

Being gay is completely different to being non binary.
One is who you are sexually and romantically attracted to. The other is the belief you can be something entirely imaginary.

One is natural. The other is a sign of mental illness.

We have restrictions in our schools about the personal religious beliefs that a teacher can share. They would be strongly reprimanded.

Due to tiptoeing around this issue, the same does not apply to non binary or trans ideology.

And your other examples are just a ridiculous strawman.

I don’t accept that nonbinary is a “real” thing either, but if it’s beyond you to teach your kids tolerance of others without suggesting they must wholeheartedly buy into their ideology then i dread to think what other simple day to day molehills you’re making into mountains

But definitely knowing he will teach small children that a man isn’t a man ‘if he says so ‘

How do we know. She said "we've been told the teacher for next year is a non-binary/‘non-gender-conforming’ man" so surely we have to assume that is what she's been told.

Telling children to pretend men aren’t men, is not the same.

Being gay or black are not “ideologies”

False equivalency.

He hasn't claimed not to be a man. He literally just wants to be referred to as Mx X rather than Mr X. Not everyhting is a transgender issue requiring a pitchfork.

Perfect, I'll sharpie it on for you 😘

And why is he demanding to be referred to as Mx?

So what’s non-binary then?

@Mumble12
I’m struggling to tell if you’re really this naive or just using faux ignorance as a debate technique

Why are you using the word "demanding?" Why not "prefers to be called"? That's all we know.

I personally think anyone religious has a screw loose. I could infer that people that believe in make believe deities in the sky can't be considered fit to teach children. But what someone believes only affects my child if they start preaching about it. Historically I have found far more 'push' from religious people than non binary people. So what I do, is not judge how other people live their life until it affects me.

However until this person steps foot in the classroom, there is no reason to think they're any more likely to push their own beliefs on anyone else.