A Virginia teacher is celebrating victory after fighting back over the claim she was "asked to lie to parents about their own children." Deb Figliola, a middle school teacher, told CBN News she felt compelled to take a stand after the Harrisonburg City Public School Board reportedly created a new policy she believes upended parents' rights.
"A little over three years ago, we were given a training that told us as a staff — and this training was given to all staff and all personnel within the school district — that we would have to ask students for what they wanted to be called and what pronoun they preferred," she said. "And then we had to always refer to them that way." Beyond that, Figliola said teachers were told not to tell parents about the use of these pronouns. She said she took issue with the policy and the district, where she has been teaching for more than a decade.
"When I heard that training, I basically went back to my office, my classroom, and wrote … down some thoughts," she said. "I still have the paper and I just wrote, 'I can't lie. I'm not going to lie to kids and I'm not going to lie to parents.'" Figliola teamed up with ADF and decided to join two other educators in pushing back. "That process included a lot of prayer … a lot of consideration, and, in spending time in prayer, really feeling like God was directing me to do this with my time — that this was important," she said. "And it was a responsibility that I had to speak up for kids and for families."
Ultimately, she won her battle. Watch her and attorney Vincent Wagner explain.
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