Kansas school officials agreed this week to pay a teacher $95,000 for violating her First Amendment rights, after they suspended her for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns and forced her to conceal the student’s transgenderism from parents.
Former Fort Riley Middle School math teacher Pamela Ricard sued the Geary County School District in March because she says she was suspended for three days in April 2021 for calling a student by their legal name rather than their preferred one, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom , The district also had a policy – which has since been revoked — that mandated teachers hide students’ “social transition” from parents unless given permission by students to share.
, “finding that she was likely to prevail on her First Amendment free exercise of religion claim,” according to the ADF. The court also granted her motion to halt the district’s policy forcing teachers to keep secrets from parents. After reaching a settlement, the ADF filed a dismissal of the case on Wednesday.
“This case provides straightforward lessons for Kansas school boards: Schools shouldn’t lie to parents and teachers don’t forfeit their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door,” said Joshua Ney, partner at Kriegshauser Ney Law Group. He went on: The Geary County School District unsuccessfully tried to convince a federal court that a teacher should completely avoid using a child’s name during a parent teacher conference in order to hide new names and genders being used by the school for a child in a classroom. Absurdity and deception has its limits, especially in federal court. I’m glad the case clarifies the financial stakes for school boards if they attempt to force teachers to lie to parents about their students.
Attorney General Schmidt often criticizes Gov. Kelly for her education policies, which will likely be a big point of debate leading up to the November election. He noted that Gov. Kelly
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