Kansas teacher holds the moral high-ground against school district: wins bigly

A retired teacher from Kansas won a lawsuit against the Geary County school district after they tried to force her to go against her own moral code by deceiving parents about their child's gender identity. Pamela Ricard, 58, is now $95,000 richer because she stood on her principles and morals and didn't go along with the board.

Ricard argued that Colorado school administrators demanded she use students' preferred gender pronouns in classrooms, but avoid those pronouns when speaking to the parents in question. She sued, arguing that such deception goes against her Christian beliefs.

The district, composed of woke Marxists, agreed to settle on Wednesday, and Ricard and her attorneys at the Alliance Defending Freedom withdrew the lawsuit.

"No school district should ever force teachers to willfully deceive parents or engage in any speech that violates their deeply held religious beliefs," ADF Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer said in a statement.

Also, lying sucks and diminishes the character of the liar.

"We’re pleased to settle this case favorably on behalf of Pam, and we hope that it will encourage school districts across the country to support the constitutionally protected freedom of teachers to teach and communicate honestly with both children and parents," the statement read.

Administrators at Fort Riley Middle School reprimanded and suspended Ms. Ricard in 2021 after she referred to a transgender student by the student's legal name and pronouns because she knows the difference between a boy and a girl and knows gender confusion when she sees it.

Although the school reprimanded her for using the correct pronoun and legal name of a student, they demanded she use the correct pronoun and legal name of the student when interacting with parents, according to the ADF.

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"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," ADF Attorney Joshua Ney said. "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."

Ricard retired from her teaching job in May. The district school board rescinded its policy of deceiving parents soon after Ricard filed her lawsuit but in spite of this, they still suck.

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