A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired in the fall after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
The New York Times first reported Wednesday that interim Texas A&M president Tommy Williams deferred the decision to the university system, and that James Hallmark, the system’s vice chancellor for academic affairs, wrote in a Dec. 19 memo that Melissa McCoul’s termination in September was supported by “good cause.” He did not explain his reasoning.
Remember: these are free speech absolutists.
For the rest of the country/world, when you read of someone’s education realize that if it is from Texas, it isn’t real. Move on to next candidate from somewhere that has an education system not a religious indoctrination system.
A student challenged Dr. McCoul, saying, “I’m not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching because, according to our president, there’s only two genders.”
Is this the level of understanding of civics that Texas A&M students possess?
Not just the students, but clearly the university itself. I just hope more people use these incidents to inform their decisions about where to go to school. Once you let personal opinions and religion get in the way of the pursuit of knowledge, then you might as well not bother being a school anymore.
At least explain the reasoning. Geeze.
Reasoning: “Texas don’t like no women and don’t like no queers!”
“Only steers and queers come out of Texas” is a saying.
I heard that when R Lee Ermey shouted it in Full Metal Jacket
You don’t need to explain, we know it is by belief.
How about we fire that fat fuck out a cannon? When revolution comes people like them just be put up against the wall.
People like James Hallmark need to be as scared as judges that rule against Trump.
