I am running out of words to describe how fucked up and out of touch with reality the fundamentalist Christian nationalist racist dictatorship of DeathSantis Florida kingdom. They are so scared of not following 1950s gender stereotypes and the social acceptance of LGBTQ+ kids that even nicknames must now get a parent’s approval / permission slip. I can see that teacher phone call “Mrs Bigot your 8 your son Theodore wants to be called Teddy and your 10 year old son Harold wishes to be called Skip, I need to inform you of this in case it is a gender sexual orientation thing and get you to write your formal approval”! WTF It is nutz. What about kids calling each other names? What about the mean names the bigots kids are taught to call the gay or trans kids, do the teachers need to get permission for that? They are not allowed to stop it anymore in the bigoted kingdom of DeathSantis. Hugs
The Insider reports:
Students who attend school in Florida will now need parental permission to use a nickname or preferred name in school, thanks to a law put in place by the state’s governor, Ronald Dion DeSantis, who famously goes by a nickname — Ron.
The rule will soon hit all Florida districts and follows new legislation that was adopted in July that aims to “strengthen the rights of parents and safeguard their child’s educational record to ensure the use of the child’s legal name in school or a parent-approved nickname,” according to Florida’s Department of Education.
Orlando’s Fox affiliate reports:
Students who wish to be called anything other than their legal name in school will need their parents to sign off, according to memos sent to parents by Orange County Public Schools and Seminole County Public Schools. Marion County Schools and Volusia County Schools confirmed to FOX 35 that they have plans to issue similar memos.
For example, if your child’s name is Robert but likes to be called “Rob,” the form will need to be filled out to make that happen.
This form also applies to transgender students who wish to be called something other than their legal name, according to the school district. This, however, does not allow teachers and staff to use a student’s preferred pronouns, and does not allow a teacher or staff member to ask a student’s preferred pronoun, which was barred under House Bill 1069.
But it’s liberals who want to regulate away all our freedoms, right? SMDH.
At least they’re banning Shakespeare.
In 1962 Macbeth was in our English lit book. At some point the phrase “a tinker’s wench” appeared. Our teacher was steamed.
“The word is whore!” he shouted loudly enough to be heard down the hall. “W. H. O. R. E.! WHORE!!
But we were actually taught that slavery was wrong, too
some people are shocked when I tell them the unabridged complete works of Shakespeare was in the bookcase of the bedroom I shared with my brother when I was 8 years old and he was 4. The set was given to this pastor’s family by another pastor.
And “they” talk about a “classical education.”
What the fuck. I’ve gone by my middle name — without needing anyone’s permission — for decades. The only people who call me by my first name are 1) my mom, and 2) telemarketers.
Just finished reading for the second time “Downfall” byTraudl Junge Hitlers personal secretary. For Florida aand indeed America in many many ways an exacting template If we do NOT learn from history we are destined to repeat in It.’s been not quite 100 years
Even my mother doesn’t call me by the name she gave me.
I had one high school teacher, Sister Mary Robertine, who insisted on calling all students by their “real” name. Classmate Frank gave it to her when she called him “Francis” (Frank was his legal name).
“FL Students Need Permission Slips To Use Nicknames”
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My god, what a repressive clown show Florida has become under DeSantis.
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Hello Michael. It is getting damn scary for normal not fundamentalist religious conservative gang thugs. The number of maga die hard take rights from everyone not us thugs is horrible. Really this is the attempt to make a model of how they want the rest of the country, totally under an authoritarian right wing ideology pushing the 1950s only society and science / medical understandings with strict gender stereotype enforcement. They are driven to show that a state forced by Taliban like religious moral police gang thugs is the best, most proper, way to live in the US. What they are doing in the schools is horrifying because there are real living students suffering under this who have no way out, seeing their college credits / opportunities disappearing after all their hard work. So they will push, threaten, use anything they can to get their way and block the rest of us. Hugs
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It’s just like I commented on MPS-DeSantis has skipped the warming-the-frog-water slowly, and just turned the burner right up to 500 degrees there.
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Well said Ali! You are spot on. He is a true believer that is convinced by his own people this will be the spark to change the country toward their view. Scary isn’t it. Hugs
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Yes, it is scary. If we had a Republican governor, we’d be on the same road. It’d be like one of those oldie drag races, even. Sheesh.
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