JOHN,

In Ron DeSantis’s Florida, you can be fired for respecting your students.

A teacher was just fired for using a student’s preferred name.

Let that sink in for a moment.

According to reports, this Florida educator followed a basic rule of respect—calling a graduating senior by the name they asked to be called— a name they went by for years and was punished for it. Fired.

Another teacher was investigated for accepting an assignment with this student’s preferred name.

This isn’t about policy. It’s about power. It’s about fear. It’s about laws, whether we disagree or agree, not being universally applied. It’s about the coordinated effort by Moms for Liberty, Ron DeSantis, and the Trump administration to intimidate educators, attack marginalized students, and weaponize public schools for their political gain.

Educated We Stand is fighting back across all 48 states where extremists like these are working to take control of our classrooms. Can we count on you to support our efforts?

We’re supporting pro-education school board candidates, training parent advocates, and standing up for the rights of teachers to teach—and students to feel safe and seen.

But we won’t win this fight without your help.

Can you rush $15, $25, or whatever you can today to help us protect teacher rights and defend our schools from extremism?

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Moms for Liberty says, ‘We don’t co-parent with the government’, but they do expect teachers to double as informants.

Let’s make sure educators everywhere know: We’ve got their backs.

— Educated We Stand

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