12.20.24
“How Can Spanish Teachers Teach Spanish Using Preferred Pronouns? They Cannot”
By Donna Garner
COMMENTS BY DONNA GARNER – Throughout this time of LGBTQ/CRT/DEI dogma, I have wondered how Spanish teachers have been able to function because of the “preferred pronouns” mandates.
The Fox News 12.20.24 article by Joshua Q. Nelson (excerpts posted below) addresses various teachers who are now winning lawsuits against school districts because they were forced to follow the preferred pronoun agenda.
I have wondered, in particular, how Spanish teachers have been able to function during this miserable period of “Wokism.”
(Thankfully “Wokism” is coming to an end as the voters of America have elected a majority of people who stand for traditional values.)
Spanish is a “Romance” language.
That means Spanish is strongly tied to a group of languages that are derived from Vulgar Latin such as French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.
Because Spanish is spoken so widely across the United States, many schools teach Spanish in their foreign language departments.
In Spanish, every noun has a gender – either feminine or masculine.
In the Spanish language, adjectives must agree with the nouns they modify in both gender and number (singular or plural).
For instance, if a noun is “la muchacha” (“the girl”), the feminine adjective “la” must be used with the noun also.
If the noun is “el muchacho” (“the boy”), the masculine adjective “el” must be used with the noun also.
Any other adjectives that describe “la muchacha” and “el muchacho” must agree also in number and gender.
For instance, “the tall boy” in Spanish would be “el muchacho alto.”
“The tall girl” would be “la muchacha alta.”
Not only do adjectives have to agree in gender; they also must agree in number (singular or plural).
Most adjectives follow the general rule that masculine adjectives end in “o.” To make it plural, it would be “os.”
Ex: The tall boys would be “los muchachos altos.”
Most feminine adjectives end in “-a.” To make it plural, it would be “as.”
Ex: The tall girls would be “las muchachas altas.”
BOTTOM LINE: How can Spanish teachers teach Spanish correctly where masculine or feminine genders govern the entire language?
In fact, how can anyone communicate anything effectively with the “preferred pronouns” bag of lies which has infected our entire society?
Thank God the “preferred pronouns” regime is now over, and those teachers who have been forced to follow “the lies” are winning their lawsuits.
I feel sure more lawsuits are on the way.
Now Spanish teachers and teachers of all subjects can get back to teaching academic content rather than wasting students’ time with indoctrinating them into a destructive belief system.
Jeff Childers, a practicing attorney and author, wrote an excellent article in 10.14.23 that pointed out the fallacies of the preferred pronouns regime.
10.14.23 – “A Case Against Preferred Pronouns” -- By Jeff Childers – C&C News -- https://donnagarner.org/10-14-23-a-case-against-preferred-pronouns-by-jeff-childers-attorney-cc-news/
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12.20.24 – Fox News
“Attorney says 'a lot of teachers coming to us' after they are being forced to use students' preferred pronouns”
By Joshua Q. Nelson
Excerpts from this article:
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) law firm scored several legal victories by defending teachers who object to using students’ preferred pronouns, which were mandated by school districts.
"There are a lot of teachers coming to us," ADF legal counsel Logan Spena told Fox News Digital.
"Unfortunately, too many school districts around this country have adopted policies that compel teachers to personally affirm things that aren't true," Spena said.
"That's a violation of their First Amendment rights. And we've thankfully been able to have some success in representing other teachers. And so that's leading other teachers to contact us."
ADF on Wednesday settled a federal lawsuit against the Jackson Local School District (JLSD) in Ohio after two years.
Ohio-based middle school English teacher Vivian Geraghty won $450,000 in damages and legal fees after suing JLSD for a free speech violation.
Geraghty was forced to resign because she refused to participate in the "social transition" of students who express a gender identity inconsistent with their biological sex.
According to ADF, school district officials demanded her resignation because she objected to conforming to a policy that would violate her religious beliefs.
"This settlement is monetary. It still sends a strong message that if you're going to not respect the constitutional rights of teachers, it's going to have a cost," Spena told Fox News Digital.
…Spena added that ADF is currently handling a similar case in Indiana.
"It's in the seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. We're also seeing the problem crop up really all over the country," he explained.
Furthermore, ADF boasts a consistent record of winning these kinds of cases.
Most recently, ADF won a case against the Harrisonburg City Public Schools in Virginia, which resulted in the school board granting three teachers religious accommodations and ending a mandate forcing employees to use students’ preferred pronouns.
Kristine Marsh, Laura Nelson, and Debrah Figlolia argued that their rights, protected in the Commonwealth’s Free Speech Clause and the Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act, had been violated by compelled speech.
Similar to the case in JSLD, the teachers in HCPS had to undergo training that required teachers to ask a student’s "preferred" name and pronouns and to always use them.
Deborah Figliola, one of the three plaintiffs in the case, told Fox News Digital that several teachers disagreed with the policy, but didn’t speak up.
She added that some teachers even quit due to the policy.
ADF won the case in Harrisonburg after winning a significant case they described as having "seismic implications" for teachers in Virginia and abroad.
Virginia-based West Point School Board agreed to pay a former high school teacher, Peter Vlaming, $575,000 in damages and attorney’s fees after he refused to call a transgender student by their preferred pronouns…
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