Florida Teacher Fired For Treating Child As A Person
Ignoring The Long Held Fact That Children's Autonomy Doesn't Matter
Florida Teacher Fired For Treating Child As A Person
It is no great debate that children shouldn’t have agency. All modern societies understand that when a child brings up their alleged feelings on a matter, those feelings must be immediately cross checked with a parent or guardian. Only then can anybody know what a child is truly feeling. Despite what dangerous, radical, self-proclaimed “child advocates” say, an adult’s thoughts should always be prioritized above a child’s feelings. Parents knows when their children want or need to be hit, for example. Preteens and toddlers are too young for their cries of “no!” and “stop!” to mean anything. They are a lot like adult women in that way. Still, this universal truth hasn’t stopped Florida teacher Grace Singleton from wrongly treating a child like a person. Singleton, a fourth grade math teacher in Brevard County was fired last week for listening to ten year old Nicholos Sharp’s request to call him Nick. Singleton alledges that the young boy “prefers Nick” but administrators say Singleton did not recieve permission from Nicholas’s parents before capitulating to the student’s stated preference. “His birth name was written on her roll call,” says Hannah Sharp, Nicholas’s mother. “Which she deliberately ignored.” Nicholas’s father was similarly outraged, stating, “If we wanted him to be called Nick we would have put that on his birth certficate. But we didn’t. Because that name fucking sucks.”
The school’s Principal, Dr. McCormick, spoke out against Singleton in a statement he submitted to local papers. “The news that one of our teachers has made a student feel seen and heard has shook me to my core. I take full responsibility for allowing this injustice to occur under my leadership. The teacher in question is no longer working at Birthright Elementary and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that this will not happen again. I believe our track record overall to be an illustrious one. Over sixty percent of our student body go home with shorts full of piss and shit everyday. This is because our staff is committed to disregarding your children’s woke digestive claims—among all other claims—unless we can get in touch with a parent or guardian for verification and authorization.”