The point is that it's not MANDATORY to refer to a cartoon character as "he" or "she." Anyone who wants to refer to a cartoon as "it" and point out that it isn't really "he" or "she" is free to do so. It's not really about you, despite what you think. It's about the 1st Amendment
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Teachers do generally have to teach the agreed-on curriculum and follow the agreed-on social norms about how students are treated, yes.
Like any citizen they can engage socially and politically try to change those norms outside school. A Christian teacher can vote to try to remove the constitutional barrier btw church and state- but she can't proselytize in the class.
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No matter how strongly she believes her religion to be true, or how sincerely she thinks her students need to hear that truth, she can't speak it in class.
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Probably no teacher can prove or disprove the existence of God. I'm against forcing people to aver things that are clearly contradicted by convincing evidence, particularly when they work for public institutions that are supposed to be impartial.
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