Just thought I would share a recent experience at my workplace. I am a 53 year old high school teacher in Brisbane. Since all teacher laptops look the same, we often add stickers to differentiate our laptop from the next, and these stickers are usually causes close to our hearts.
For three years I have had an I ♥️ JK Rowling sticker on mine, and a ‘Female, nothing more, never less’. These accompany some Alaskan bear stickers and an indigenous Australian sticker plus a save the reef sticker.
Two days ago I was called into the head of science’s office and asked to take my laptop out. He pointed out my two feminist stickers and told me I had to remove them as they breached the code of conduct. I asked him how and he didn’t say. He said there had been a complaint (he couldn’t say how many, or who or why). He said if I didn’t remove the stickers by 9pm I would be in breach of the code of conduct and so would he.
This directive was sent from admin at the school. I told him I would comply but that I didn’t agree with it and I thought it was BS. I replaced those stickers with a more subtle ‘This witch doesn’t burn’ the next day. Still mad at being censored. I think I know who complained - a ‘non-binary‘ pronouns in bio lesbian teacher who I interacted with recently and who took an unusual amount of time looking at my laptop lid during the interaction. Here are the offending stickers.
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