Gender-neutral teacher divides parents after requesting fifth-graders use preferred pronouns
A fifth-grade teacher at Canopy Oaks Elementary school in Tallahassee, Florida, made headlines after sending home notices to students’ parents requesting that her pupils address her with gender-neutral pronouns in her classroom.
Chloe Bressack, who teaches math and science, sent a letter home which read, “One thing that you should know about me is that I use gender neutral terms. My prefix is Mx. (pronounced Mix). Additionally, my pronouns are ‘they, them, their’ instead of ‘he, his, she, hers.’ I know it takes practice for it to feel natural, but in my experience, students catch on pretty quickly.”...