Important Takeaways:

• At its July 19 meeting, amid heated discussion about Black history and personal pronouns, the State Board of Education took a little noted step requiring schools to use a student’s given legal name unless parents give written permission otherwise.
• As families started to fill out myriad permission slips, for everything from media releases to library usage, that form asking if it would be OK to call children by something other than their given name popped up throughout the state.
• Some district officials told teachers one way to avoid the issue — along with the related matter of personal pronouns and titles — would be to call students by their last names.
• They also noted that no one could be required to call a transgender student by different pronouns even if their parents authorized the use of a different name.

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