For using a student’s chosen name without the parents’ permission, a Florida teacher was dismissed.
After calling a kid by a preferred name without obtaining a parent-signed form, Melissa Calhoun.
A teacher at Satellite High School in Cape Canaveral, will not have her contract renewed for the upcoming academic year, the district announced.
Due to Florida’s new rule requiring instructors to get parental authorization before referring to pupils by a name other than their legal one, Calhoun is believed to be the first teacher to be dismissed.
The law has been in force for the past two academic years.
