Oh my. Things just got weirder.
You remember the television show “Are you smarter than a 4th grader?” Well, I will tell you that there are three 8th graders in Wisconsin who are definitely smarter than their principal.
Here’s the upshot – three boys refused to use “they/them” pronouns for a fellow student. Good for them. I don’t know if they’re strict adherents of grammar rules or just kids willing to make a cultural stand but I’m totally team 8th graders. You had me at “no.”
The school district launched a Title IX investigation into the three boys because they’re crazy people with a measure of power over these children. On top of that they launched a sexual harassment investigation because anyone who stands up to the NEW RULES must pay a terrible price.
This is head on a pike politics. You must make the cost of standing up to the state so outlandishly severe so that most people will refuse to stand up because they don’t want their lives ruined. For context, see what the state of California is doing to David Daleidein for videotaping Big Abortion execs haggle over the prices of body parts.
Rosemary Rabidoux, the mother of one of the accused boys, said, according to The Chalkboard Review:
“I received a phone call from the principal over at the elementary school, forewarning me; letting me know that I was going to be receiving an email with sexual harassment allegations against my son,” Rabidoux told local outlet FOX 11 News Friday.
“I immediately went into shock. I’m thinking, sexual harassment? That’s rape, that’s inappropriate touching, that’s incest,” Rabidoux continued. “What has my son done?”
“(The investigating principal) said he’s being allegedly charged with sexual harassment for not using proper pronouns,” added Rabidoux. “I thought it wasn’t real. I thought this has got to be a gag, a joke – one has nothing to do with the other.”
According to Rabidoux’s account of one of the events, “she had been screaming at one of [Rabidoux’s son]’s friends to use proper pronouns, calling him profanity, and this friend is very soft-spoken, and kind of just sunk down into his chair. [Rabidoux’s son] finally came up, defending him, saying ‘He doesn’t have to use proper pronouns, it’s his constitutional right to not use, you can’t make him say things.’”
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) has already gotten involved on Rabidoux’s side.
“Sexual harassment, as defined in both Title IX and the Kiel Area School District’s policy, typically covers things like rape, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, inappropriate touching, and quid pro quo sexual favors. None of that—or anything even close to it—is alleged in the complaint,” WILL said in a statement.
“While there is a catchall for ‘unwelcome conduct’ that is ‘so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to education,’ the mere use of a biologically correct pronoun, without significantly more, does not count, and if it did, it would violate the First Amendment. Schools of course can and should deal with teasing and bullying, but using so-called ‘incorrect pronouns’ alone is not punishable, without more,” the statement continued.
The Kiel Area School District, however, is holding its ground. They issued the following statement to Local 5 media:
“The KASD prohibits all forms of bullying and harassment in accordance with all laws, including Title IX, and will continue to support ALL students regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, sex (including transgender status, change of sex or gender identity), or physical, mental, emotional or learning disability (“Protected Classes”) in any of its student programs and activities; this is consistent with school board policy.”
These nut jobs are actually moving ahead with this. Why? Because it’s not costing them a thing. Not a dime. They’re literally spending your money to prosecute your children. This is intimidation. This is madness. This must be resisted. God bless the families of these three young men standing up to this craziness.
