A Florida teacher has announced her very early retirement, blaming Governor Ron DeSantis’ new law that limits sexually-orientated education in the youngest classrooms… even though she teaches students past the age restrictions of the law.
Nicolette Solomon, 28, who is married to another woman, claims “the climate of homophobia” she says the law created has effectively diminished her calling to be a teacher, according to an overly dramatic story in The Washington Post titled, “This Florida teacher married a woman. Now she’s not a teacher anymore.”
The Parental Rights in Education law, which doesn’t go into effect until July 1, that prohibits sexually-oriented content from being taught to young children between kindergarten and 3rd grade has evidently all but demolished Solomon’s will to make a difference in the lives of her 4th graders.
“She wondered: Could she be herself and stay a teacher in Florida?” the Post article stated.
Not exactly traits of a trailblazing, fearless visionary of an educator.
As a teacher in Miami, she claims that she did not ever plan on directly discussing gender identity or LGBT topics in her classroom, but that she did feel restricted in her ability to reference her wife to students.
“Solomon thought about how, under the new law, a parent lawsuit could stem from just one awkward exchange about her personal life,” the article, written by Hannah Natanson, continued.
Although the new law, which can be reviewed here, has been dubbed by opponents and media outlets as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, it does not prohibit teachers from being themselves, though it does stipulate that lesson plans must be “age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate.”
If a teacher violates the law, parents of kindergarten through grade 3 students have the ability to sue the school district; Solomon taught fourth-grade at Key Biscayne K-8 Center.
The governor of Alabama signed a similar bill into law in April, and other like-minded bills are being considered in at least 19 other states, as well.
Other teachers are getting upset, quitting, and getting fired, as well, even before the implementation of the law, all throughout the state of Florida. For instance, according to NBC News, in Orlando, a teacher quit his 6th-grade position after his student’s parents complained that he was talking about his same-sex marriage too frequently.
Another teacher based in the Cape Coral area, who teaches middle school art, lost her job after reportedly mentioning her personal journey with pansexuality, also reported by NBC.
Those who oppose the bill’s effects on the Florida education system claim that it silences LGBT students, those with LGBT families and households, and the teachers and coaches themselves.
On Twitter, however, many parents from across the country and within Florida are voicing their support for Governor DeSantis’s bill. They didn’t seem particularly sad to see Solomon retiring at such an early age.
“This is what happens when you base your whole identity on what you are and not who you are,” tweeted @therichboutot, who lists his pronouns on his profile as “Leave/Me/The/F*ck/Alone.”
This is what happens when you base your whole identity on what you are and not who you are.
— My name is Rich. (@therichboutot) May 21, 2022
Others called out the “political stunt,” noting that the Florida law does not even affect the grade Solomon was teaching.
And specific to not discussing sexuality with those students, her own sexuality or anyone else’s. If discussion of her own sexuality was such an integral part of her teaching that she feels she must resign, then that’s probably for the best…
— CO1876 (@coredog66) May 21, 2022
“Solomon taught fourth-graders in the Miami area, where she told the Post she never talked about her wife with students”
So the law doesn’t affect her in the slightest, it’s just a political stunt…… Got it…..😂🤦
— 𝕻𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖋𝖚𝖑𝖑𝖞 𝕭𝖊𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖉 (@bjones306) May 21, 2022
I stubbed my toe the other day. Thanks Ron!
— billy jenkins (@IamBillyJenkins) May 21, 2022
Not only that, to make a statement, she quit in the middle of the school year, leaving the students, who she claims to love so dearly, high and dry.
The Washington Post presents her here as a hero and a victim.
She’s clearly the villain in this story.
— JcT (@txJCTtx) May 22, 2022
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28 thoughts on “Florida teacher who married another woman quits, but attempt to blame DeSantis flames out”
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Stop worrying about teaching my children about your sexual lifestyle.
I don’t care who you sleep with – when you sleep with them, or how many partners you may have at any given time.
My child does NOT NEED TO KNOW THAT!
My children need to know reading, math, geography, science
NOT SOMEONE’S PERSONAL LIFESTYLE.
This comes from a father of a 20-year-old lesbian.
I don’t give a tinker’s damn about your sexuality.
I care that you teach my child the subject for which they are in your class.
What is strange and sad to me is that the ideas you express, which are so sensible, basic, are considered by the left to be extreme.
Let me just say that ANY PERSON who thinks it is in ANY WAY APPROPRIATE to discuss their sexual orientation, habits, proclivities, with ANYONE other than another ADULT has NO BUSINESS BEING A TEACHER. It is not your job to be a friend to my child. It is your job to teach them the skills they need to be successful in life (which by many reports, you are failing to do). I will handle their social skills and lifestyle education thank you very much.
Contrary to what Potato Joe and the education lobby thinks, THEY ARE MY KIDS, NOT YOURS!
sounds like a win/win to me…
I cannot recall any of my teachers, throughout my time in school, discussing their sex lives with their students. I can barely recall hearing about their spouses either. We were there to be educated in the subjects expected of our age group. Even in my Human Sexuality class we never heard the teacher’s opinions or love life expressed. They were true professionals just doing their jobs. If these current teachers feel a need to express such things to children then they must ask themselves why. It is not appropriate to do it and they know it. Kids cannot help them sort out their sex lives, so I wonder at the objective of such stuff. Do they believe it make kids more tolerant of LGBTQ+? Or perhaps as Bill Maher said–are they using the kids as experiments? Either way, they shouldn’t be teachers.
So, this chick says she was called to teach, but yet, just because she couldn’t indoctrinate about her private life, she can’t teach? Interesting that we have many Christian teachers out there who teach w/o indoctrinating…
In K-12, high school, college and a Master’s program, I never recall a teacher volunteering their sexual preferences and marriage status. Keep your perversions at home, teachers.
Don’t ever believe that homosexuality is about anything other than having sex. It’s literally all these filthy deviants want to talk about.
“Hey, I’m gay! Look at my boyfriend Bruce! See all of the of the pictures of him and I tonguing each other in public!
Scumbags…
None of my teachers through college ever talked about their spouses or significant other. Students didn’t care either. Personal information is just that: personal. It is nobody’s business.
lickem and stickem thats what i was taught not just lickem weird dumbdonkeys
She is not a teacher anymore by her own volition. No one forced her out!!!
Thank you MS age 28 media star wannabe. Now that you have left the teaching position, some REAL teacher with good common sense can have the job. Thank goodness the fourth graders were spared for at least half of their fourth grade year from HER NUTTINESS. If she is upset that she can’t speak of her “wife” to kids, then she is mentally unstable. Kids don’t care if you have a wife or husband, they care about friends, playing, latest fad and food. :)
One valid question, mam/sir. What has YOUR sexual business got to do with kids getting a good education so they can hold a job and be productive citizens? THAT is your job, not grooming them or trying to turn them into perverts
Knowing many elementary teachers, the majority stick to classroom topics, curriculum, kids’ interests (Sonic, Marvel heroes, barbie… ). No need to speak of your personal life at all. If a child asks “Are you married… ‘yes/no’ is all you need to answer if you must answer. “Let’s talk about… .(class topic)…” best way to not answer personal questions. Just leave personal life at home. This person wanted her hours of fame so she now has it thanks to Washington Post.
Good riddance to bad garbage . Leave our children alone . Keep your perversions to yourself .
Please move to San Francisco and leave Florida as we don’t need crap like her here and take the trash with you.
Totally idiotic and totally the RIGHT DECISION for the benefit of her students!! Not being subjected to a mentally disturbed person is a GOOD THING!! And I’m not saying her being married to another woman is her mental issue – it’s her assessment of her situation. Theres NOTHING in the law that prevents her from being a TEACHER! She can teach the SUBJECT MATTER that she is PAID TO TEACH and then when she gets home she can be as gay/lesbian as she desires!! I think they used to call people like her a DRAMA QUEEN and then roll their eyes!!
She/it/whatever,is 28 years old,that’s a pretty sad existence if you quit your job because you can’t tell minor children your sexual habits,not only does she /it need to be fired but locked up in a hospital somewhere,maybe some friends the same age,,,what a disgusting loser POS that teacher is,,,,,,,,,,,FJB,,,,,,,,
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Good riddance! Your job is not to indoctrinate our children. It is to teach them an acceptable curriculum. If you can’t do that, then you shouldn’t be there!
She is a weakling and coward who hasn’t read the legislation. She couldn’t bring herself to state the actual reasons for quitting her job (But good riddance just the same…) and her politicization of her claims only accentuated her inadequacy as a teacher.
u r right
If she is unable to perform the job for which she was hired then she has no business being there. She isn’t there to “raise” these children nor to indoctrinate them. She is there to teach them the standard “approved” curriculum, period. She can care about the children, but her own life should have nothing to do with theirs on any level. Thank God for Florida’s sane concept of how teacher’s should relate to their students, and what IS NOT appropriate material. Now they need to expand those rules up through High School. Strangers do not have the right to instill their own morals in our children – period!
And why does she feel entitled to discuss her family with the students. I don’t remember any of my teachers discussing their families with us in the 70s. There was no need nor interest. we learned math , English, history and physical education and spent the weekends chasing after girls. (I am a man)
The left has this misconception that Heterosexuals MUST like the Homosexuals the same way they like each other.
WRONG, We will coexist because we value freedom just as the left has to value the right’s freedom not to like homosexuals.
Please don’t force your ideals upon us just like we don’t push Heterosexuality down your throats.
IT’S THAT SIMPLE
Its a free country and McDonalds is hiring. She is not that committed to being a teacher if she cant work around a simple bill that says little kids don’t need anyone’s sexual preferences or practices enter the classroom.
Sounds like the students will benefit by this teacher NOT being in the classroom.