The jackboots in the Brownsburg, Indiana school system ruin a fine teacher's career

This is how late in the day it is:

After teaching orchestra in Brownsburg Community Schools for four years, 28-year-old John Kluge is being forced to resign.

The reason?

He refuses to call transgender students by their preferred names, versus the names they were given at birth.

"I really do care for all of my students," Kluge said, "which is why I don’t want to be compelled to speak in such a way that I believe I’ll be encouraging them in something that’s dangerous."

The school district stipulates that students must have written permission from both a parent and a doctor to make the name switch. At that point, the name is officially changed in school records, and teachers and administrators are required to refer to them as such.

Those policies, and more, are laid out for the district in an internal document presently available online.The document was distributed to teachers on January 3.

But John Kluge wasn’t having it.

When the rule went into effect, he reached a compromise with school administrators, who informed him he would be permitted to get around it by referring to his students--all of his students, transgender or not--by last name only. So, he did.

But then he was told that this nextschool year, he would have to start using the students’ preferred names. Kluge says he was not given a reason why.

The now-former teacher also claims that Brownsburg Community Schools threatened to fire him only three weeks before the end of the school year. So he submitted a tentative letter of resignation, but when he requested it be withdrawn, the district refused. And posted a job listing for a new orchestra teacher.

This is happening in a public school - that is, a place in which young people are supposed to get introduced to the way the world is constructed. That takes various forms - certainly the sciences, but also history and the lessons to be drawn from works of literature. But also in the mores, customers and formal codes of conduct establishing the perameters on the interactions between and among people in those schools.

There are only two genders and a person is one or the other his entire life, and this school is not only basing its code of conduct on the utter fantasy that there are more, it is stamping out the last vestige of an insistence on reality.

This story is not from the Bay Area or Brooklyn. This poison has permeated life in small heartland communities.

This is the work of the Devil.