Teacher suspended in Ireland for refusing to use prefered pronoun and name

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miri1985 · 30/08/2022 20:21

www.thejournal.ie/high-court-injunction-teacher-westmeath-pronouns-5853324-Aug2022/

And yes he is one of those Burkes (large very fundamentalist family, campagined against gay marriage, prone to take cases but not a great track of winning)

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 18:21

I think that he has maybe been a victim of a cult within his family unit as a child perhaps?

Ofcourseshecan · 20/09/2022 18:33

SheeWeee · 31/08/2022 13:40

It's worth reiterating that in schools the adult's duty is to follow school policies

Not when those policies are batshit and harmful to children. A teachers first duty is to not harm the children they teach

Absolutely. No adult has the right, let alone the duty, to gaslight children and lead them into harm.

DaSilvaP · 20/09/2022 22:50

elferian · 20/09/2022 18:16

I could quote few totalitarian regimes whose early most vocal unrepentant proponents were some fringe religious groups.
Just some totally unconnected thoughts ...

If you want to call a batshit ideology/dogma that has total contempt for reality "a fringe religion" then yes - that would be also true.

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