The nine-year-old case of an Indiana music teacher who refused to refer to students by their “preferred” pronouns and/or names has finally come to a conclusion.
In a settlement, the Alliance Defending Freedom reports the Brownsburg Community School Corporation agreed to pay John Kluge $650,000 after it (according to Kluge) forced him to resign his position.
The school district initially had compromised with Kluge on the matter, allowing him for about a year to call students by their last names.
But after “complaints of a few students and teachers,” the district changed its mind and Kluge said he was then threatened with being fired. He ended up turning in a letter of resignation, but withdrew it on the last day of the school year.
It didn’t matter; Kluge discovered he was “locked out” of his school email and fellow teachers informed him his teaching position was now listed as available employment.
The conservative organization Indiana Family Institute had noted Kluge also had been the faculty sponsor of Brownsburg High School’s “Teens for Christ” student club. It pointed out Kluge was “being forced out of his job while faculty in support of these new ideologies have been given opportunities to teach gender-identity-ideology at faculty meetings.”
