of course, they dehumanize and degrade these kids further by referring to their names as merely “nicknames” they have to be approved to use, making sure you know that they’re in control and stripping as much dignity as they can from the kids and parents in the process. as always, the cruelty is the point.
why the hell should any school have control over someone’s name? fuck them.
it’s fascism.
it’s fascism.
Yes it is. It's sad and scary to be able to say that about one of the two viable parties without being hyperbolic or rhetorical.
Thanks for sharing that. The introductory paragraphs are so gripping I found myself unable to do anything but read to the end.
I'm a bit confused. Of course, if the parents are not supportive then them needing to approve the "nickname" is a problem, but if the parent is supportive, isn't this good for parents becuase it give them more control over the school. If the parent approves of the nickname, the school has to recognize it and refer to the child by th name.
I agree it's taking control away from the kids, but is it not giving full control to the parents?
It's building a literal database of all "non-conforming" children.
Also, parents should not have full control over what their children want to be called.
Yeah, children are still people, they can pick their own names
Why should a parent have full control over what nickname their kid uses? Any parent who tries to excersize that level of total control over their kid is gonna wind up disowned when their kid hits 18 lol
If that sounds normal to you, you might have had some seriously overbearing parents, hate to break it to you lol
How are they going to enforce that? We had nicknames for most of our teachers and I don't think any of those had approval.
Very selectively.
So all the trans kids will just go by their last name
Yeah, no. Nobody at my kid's high school has called me to rat them out on their name or gender presentation. Thank God. I don't personally police that, my kid is safe, but they want to make the kids with crazy parents unsafe. Nothing good can come of this, but again - I don't think schools are complying, at all.
My high school buddies Rocky and Pigboy think that is real stupid.
Don't forget Squee and Donkey Doug.
Oh dip!
we must liberate nazi occupied florida
Somebody call Wagner. /s
Instructions unclear, resurrected Sherman.
Fuck, somebody tell Savannah, Georgia. This is gonna be messy.
So...
Any idiot can tell a class clown with supportive parent is going to do a form saying their nickname is Mike Hunt or any other thing Bart Simpson pranked Moe with
And now the teacher/school will either have to pretend they don't see the issue or open themselves up to legal issues.
I doubt the Simpsons made a Mike Hunt joke at 6pm
I'm really getting tired of the poor reading comprehension on Lemmy...
Most of it seems to be coming from users of the same instances tho, and it kind of makes sense why it's those two that have the most.
saying their nickname is Mike Hunt or any other thing Bart Simpson pranked Moe with
I am always up for some skim reading and poor comprehension but in this case "or any other thing" implies the first thing is included, if you don't want the first thing included you say "or anything"
I'm leaning hard on the block button in lemmy, and don't regret it.
(There are some good shitposts coming out of the tankie/commie cesspools though, to be fair)
Son, there might be something wrong with your head.
And they think kids will listen to this why? They're about to be ignored and ridiculed by children en masse
*"Pudding fingers" enters the chat
As usual, transphobic bullshit hurts everyone
My nickname is Rhonda Santis 
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