A Pittsburgh-area school district reversed course after receiving backlash for suspending a high school biology and anatomy teacher who reportedly refused to comply with the school's preferred pronoun policy.
Pennsylvania teacher Daren Cusato of the South Side Area School District was suspended last week after he reportedly told school officials that he would not follow a new district mandate requiring teachers address students by their preferred pronouns, because it violated his religious beliefs.
People gather to protest different issues including the board’s handling of a sexual assault that happened in a school bathroom in May, vaccine mandates and critical race theory during a Loudoun County School Board meeting in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., October 26, 2021.
Picture taken October 26, 2021. (REUTERS/Leah Millis) More than 400 people gathering at Wednesday's school board meeting in the small rural county, with most speakers expressing support for the popular teacher, according to Pittsburgh-area news station, WXPI. "I am standing up here tonight to ask you to separate these two things: the very divisive but trendy topic of pronouns and the precedent that you are setting, which is that teachers need to modify their engagement of students based on how that student feels," one speaker reportedly said. "My uncle Daren is standing up for what is right, even though he is standing by himself.
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