Florida Today: Public advocates for ex-teacher at Brevard school board meeting →
For the fifth time in a little over two months, community members have asked Brevard’s school board to reinstate a high school teacher who was ousted after using a 17-year-old’s chosen name without parental permission — once more to no avail.
Florida Today: Community speaks in support of ousted Brevard teacher →
More than two months after a Satellite High teacher’s contract wasn’t renewed following her use of a student’s chosen name without parental permission, community members gathered to speak once more in her support at a Brevard school board meeting.
Commentary: Cruel schools play gender-affirming name game →
In April, we saw Brevard Public Schools fire AP Satellite High School teacher Melissa Calhoun for using an affirming name for a 17-year-old trans student, the name by which they had been known since middle school. Now, as reported from records obtained by Finch Walker of Florida Today, we see that BPS is contemplating ways to punish students themselves for using their own preferred/nicknames on written class assignments.
Strategy Session and Rally Before the June 6th School Board Meeting →
The next School Board meeting is Tuesday, June 10th at 9:30am. We will meet, rally and strategize beforehand: a Virtual Strategy Session on Thursday June 5th at 7pm, and an In-Person Session on Monday June 9th at 4pm
Florida Today: Brevard Schools talks discipline for kids using chosen names without permission →
A Brevard student writes a name on top of an assignment that is not the one their parents gave them at birth — a nickname, or a name chosen based on a transgender identity. Their parents haven’t signed a permission form saying educators may call them that, and their teachers use the student’s legal name. What, if anything, happens next to the student?
them: A Florida High School Teacher Lost Her Job for Referring to a Trans Student by His Name →
A Florida teacher has lost her job for referring to a 17-year-old transgender high school student by his preferred name, following an investigation prompted by the student’s parent, who accused the school of “grooming” her child.
LGBTQ Nation: Teacher loses job after unhinged mom accuses her of “grooming” her child “to be gay” →
An investigation by a Florida school into charges that a teacher “groomed” a student “to transition and to be gay” resulted in the school district ending her contract, despite a recommendation to only reprimand her.
WFTV: Supporters of Brevard Public School teacher not backing down →
Controversy continues within Brevard Public Schools as parents, students, both current and former, as well as current teachers take their fight for the third time to the school board. It’s over a teacher who won’t be teaching in the district next year.
Florida Today: Brevard school board member asks to reinstate ousted Sat High teacher →
Melissa Calhoun exited an energized room to applause from the crowd about two hours into the three-hour meeting. Her departure came after the first round of public commenters, one in which every speaker except the chair of Brevard’s chapter of Moms for Liberty offered support for the veteran teacher.
Advocate: Florida teacher accused of grooming student by using nickname →
A Florida teacher has lost her job after a parent accused her of grooming a child to “become gay.”