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In an outrageous demand that turns the concept of civil rights on its head, a fifth grade teacher in the Tumwater School District in Washington State rejected the placement of a 10-year-old child in ‘their’ class because the student is the son of a conservative school board member who rejects transgender ideology and objects to biological boys competing in girls’ sports.
The origins of the conflict extend back to last February when school board member and father of a student in the district Casey Taylor joined a 3-1 majority in voting for a resolution stating that only biological females should compete in girls and women’s sports within the school district. The resolution was merely symbolic, since it is superseded by Washington State law which absurdly protects the right of students to join whatever team aligns with their “gender identity.” But the vote had real-life ramifications for the board members.
Fellow school board member Darby Kaikkonen, who also voted for the resolution protecting girls’ rights, was put on administrative leave and then fired from her full-time job with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), despite an unblemished work history. Kaikkonen is currently suing OSPI and its director along with the State of Washington for retaliatory termination.
The board vote in favor of girls’ rights led to months of harassment and disruption from radical transactivists at every subsequent school board meeting. Video clips show masked attendees wielding transgender flags screaming “Trans rights are human rights” to make conducting school business impossible.
In an attempt to limit the effects of the protests, Tumwater school board meetings were moved from a centralized district building to a local elementary school and security was increased, but to little effect. The actions of the transtifa activists were so extreme that in June the school board made the announcement that all future meetings would be held virtually due to, among other incidents, “Property damage; assault of an agent working on behalf of the district; exits being blocked; employee vehicles being rushed by protestors when exiting the building; and a recent threat of bodily harm against members of the school board, currently being investigated by law enforcement.”
Amidst all this turmoil, school board member Casey Taylor was facing much more personal repercussions. The elementary school principal told Taylor’s wife that one of the fifth grade teachers, a person who identifies as “non-binary” and insists on being referred to as “Mx. Thornton,” was objecting to his son, who was then a 4th grade student in the district, from being placed in ‘their’ class for the upcoming school year.
Taylor rightly rejected this request as wholesale discrimination due to the family’s political views and withdrew their son from the district for his own well-being while filing a misconduct complaint against the non-binary teacher.
Forced by Taylor’s complaint to investigate, the school district hired an independent firm to verify the details of his accusation. What they found is deeply disturbing. The investigation confirmed that Mx. Thornton did in fact approach the school principal claiming that “they” were concerned for “their” personal safety if Taylor’s son were to be assigned to “their” class.
The investigator’s report filed in September states that:
“Mx. Thornton told me they had talked to (the principal) about their concern regarding their safety with the placement of students with parents who do not support people who are nonbinary…their concern was that Mr. Taylor may have “some transphobia” because he did not support transgender athletes. They also said they had requested a meeting with (the principal) to discuss developing a policy or practice to help mitigate the placement of students in their class who come from families that do not support LGBTQIA+ identities. They stated that their request was centered on their safety and an effort to prevent future harassment.”
Outrageously, even after this confession, the investigator called Taylor’s allegations of misconduct against Mx. Thornton “unsubstantiated.”
The investigator wrote: “This allegation is unsubstantiated because I could not substantiate that Mx. Thornton said they could not teach (student) because of different political views. Mx. Thornton did share her concerns with her peers and supervisors about not feeling safe and having possible negative parental interactions with the Taylors because of Mr. Taylor’s action on the school board. Mx. Thornton’s concerns were based on previous negative experiences with parents in general. Mx. Thornton indicated they were afraid that future parent teacher interactions with Mr. Taylor would be negative based on actions he had taken regarding transgender athletes while on the school board.”
“That is insane,” declared Brandi Kruse, a political commentator who hosts the podcast unDivided. “So this is an investigator saying a non-binary they/them teacher, fifth grade teacher, went to the principal to say ‘I want there to be a policy in place that I don’t have to teach kids whose parents are anti-alphabet mob.’ So basically, I would say that’s any conservative or moderate family. Because most conservative or moderate families don’t believe in the trans nonsense that’s being pushed and believe that, yeah, boys shouldn’t compete against girls. So this teacher—how can you keep your job after that? How can you keep your job after that, after basically saying ‘I don’t want to teach the kids of parents whose politics I disagree with?’”
“What should parents think of that who have a child in Mx. Thornton’s class?” Kruse queried. “I would pull my child out immediately. It’s very clear. That teacher is going to have this inherent dislike or hatred for my child because of my political beliefs.”
For his part, Taylor has now filed a tort lawsuit naming Tumwater School District and Mx. Thornton, alleging, among other things: “Discrimination against (student) on the basis of familial status and perceived political ideology; Improper influence of the elementary class-placement process for personal gain; Request for a discriminatory policy allowing exclusion of student whose families are perceived unsupportive of LGBTQIA+ identities; Misuse of protected non-binary identity as a pretext to exclude student; [and] retaliation against School Board Member Casey Taylor and family.”
In elections for the new school board president this month, the two-left leaning school board members tried to prevent Taylor’s election as president of the board due to an alleged “conflict of interest.” Thankfully, their attempt to blackball Taylor was unsuccessful. Let’s hope he can act to restore some sanity to the Tumwater School District.
lawyer up . hit them in the bank balance . time to play hardball . the inmates have taken over the asylum . so much for v.d.hansons american exceptionalism . it is exceptional but the stupid kind .
Washington state is the stupid state. If I weren’t so old I would move. I can’t believe what the west side of the state votes in that affects all of us. Hope the lawsuit goes through and wraps that teacher up in its shoelaces.
There’s nowhere to move.
Argentina?
I don’t think normal people should dignify the alphabet mafia by repeating all their letters in their community. Since they “deviate” from hetero and biological gender roles, they should just be referred to as “deviants.”
What a pathetic excuse for a Teacher the Parents should keep their Kids away from this Rainbow Boy and Nutcase
Why are these perverts allowed to teach children in the first place?
It’s due to perverts voting in perverted politicians!
No mentally ill individual should ever be employed in a school, in any role.
Thus none of the transpsychos should be teaching in a school in the first place.
“Woke” Democ-rat politicians put school children in the custody of sex perverts (“non-binary teachers”) and then fret about the safety of the sex perverts. What’s wrong with this picture? I’ll tell you what’s wrong: It’s the dumb-ass parents in the background who continue to vote for “woke” Democ-rat politicians. On the second thought, maybe the Democ-rat parents are sex perverts, too.
Of course they are! That’s one of the problems.
The teacher has probably done the child a favour by withholding pedagogical input that is likely to be skewed and ill-informed. Wonder what the biology lessons in that class look like?
Turn trhe tables. refuse to allow your kid to be subject to the kind of indoctrination this so-called teacher practices.
Bankrupt the Washington State School system make the lawsuit so large that the worthless teachers unions and teachers have to quit. Bankrupt them all the unions for protecting the psychopath. Maybe they will learn, but I doubt it.
You can tell when a state has become irredeemable.
When State investigators talk like MsNOW apparatchiks.
Just what is this thing? This “educator” – the worst ones are always “educators”.
I am ashamed for FP that they do not make it clear.
They’re not actually educators; they’re indoctrinators!
Washington State is a morally bankrupt cesspool. Remember the “nation of chad” in a downtown Seattle commercial building that was overtaken by these mentally deranged spoiled brats? Well now all of Washington state is the nation of Chad. If you’re conservative or even just mentally stable, move.
I agree with suing them. Hit them where it hurts because money is the leftists god. As a parent and now a grandparent I think he was lucky that the teacher (propagandist) refused to teach his child. What sane person would want their child being taught by this teacher or for that matter any other teacher with these mental disorders.
One person cannot be “they” and there is no such thing as being non binary.
This is so obvious I can’t believe it even needs to be said.
It is like we are living in a world where every adult is stuck in the “terrible twos.” This is when very parent goes through that period when their toddler throws tantrums because they don’t want to accept the fact that their wishes don’t control reality or other people.
These people have never learned that, and they are teaching our kids.
I hope most parents leave this school with their children. Home school or private school! The “administration” doesn’t respect the parents, only this sick excuse of a “teacher”, so take your kid and the money they would have received, and leave them asap.
Unfortunately, many so-called psychiatrists push the lie that a man saying he’s a woman is legitimate. We need to make them tell the truth! By their endorsement, pathetically stupid people accept it and far too many refuse to speak out.
Interesting.. I LIVE right there and vote. In the voer;s pamphle NONE o this was made known,and this is critical to any initerest in “inphormed voing”. I did vote to elct this guy, but had I known the real story I might have done more than just tick his box.
The local politics in the Olympia/Lacey/Scumwater district are beyond absurd.
This PrimaDonna needs to b terminated, last week. SHE is not a eacher by any measure, and yet is kept in a place o access to vulnerable children, to pervert their lives with her own poison.
I’ll bet HEr contract has language stating she will be neutral with respec to any principles or idealogy any student might bring into the “space”.
I wish this hero ultimate and total success in his just lawsuit. Go git HEr
Vey lucky break for the 10 yr old. but the school board must make ALL children so lucky not to have those kinds of teachers.
This Imbecilic is a example of Leftists Stupidity the Idiot has no right to put their own personal example of how to live
The school District personnel and all school board members who had anything to do with hiring a gender dysphoric multi-personalty psych case to teach children should be terminated.
I escaped Washington State, and luckily, my kids went through the school system before this lunacy appeared.
I would not want any child of mine in that perv’s class
EXACTLY RIGHT! I, as the child’s parent, would be afraid of what that sicko would do to mine and other kids in that class! “He/she’s afraid……” Give me a break! So sick!
This non-binary mentally ill queer has all the brains and temperament of lunatic loud mouth Rob Reiner. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f0ORLmm-rm0
That “teacher” knows how to play the district! He/she should be fired for discriminating against a child and that he/she is afraid of what might happen!! Get real! If I were the parents in that school, I would sue them and take my child/children out asap! They are playing into the hands of an insane person! Where are the parents’ rights who pay their salaries????