$450,000 settlement for Ohio teacher who refused to use students’ pronouns
by David Rees – 01/03/25 8:40 AM ET
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MASSILLON, Ohio (WCMH) — An Ohio school district will pay $450,000 to a middle school teacher who resigned for refusing to address two transgender students by their preferred names and pronouns.
Jackson Local School District reached a settlement in December with the teacher, Vivian Geraghty, after she claimed in a 2022 lawsuit that her First Amendment rights were violated when she was told to resign from a middle school language arts position.
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Interesting.
In my time in Catholic schools, I don’t think I was ever addressed with a pronoun. It was always last name.
Correction, when I got to Catholic College, I became Mister.
Further correction, I was called “Mister Lastname” when I thought I was going to be expelled.
Ditto for my time in the Air Force, when the Mister was dropped.
Wonder why that form of address was ever dropped?
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