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NEW: An award-winning Duval teacher with honors from then-Gov. Rick Scott refused to abide by a transgender teen's pronouns, prompting training + an apology. But he continued posting bigoted memes mocking the LGBTQ community: jacksonville.com/news/20200521/…
The story starts in August, when an incoming trans sophomore at Sandalwood High School emailed her teachers letting them know her chosen name & pronouns. Thomas Caggiano, 61, said no. He called it "non-negotiable." jacksonville.com/news/20200521/…
The incident was reported & investigated. Caggiano remained teaching. The student transferred. Caggiano apologized to the principal but never her. Days later, he wrote "love it!" on a story about protesting trans students using school restrooms jacksonville.com/news/20200521/…
Now, as the school year wraps up, he’s still teaching. Duval Schools launched an inquiry into Caggiano after the Times-Union shared some of his transphobic, xenophobic and racist public social media posts.
CW: we quote some of these posts in the story jacksonville.com/news/20200521/…
We also share a glossary of terms you'll see throughout the story as well as resources those in the LGBTQ community can call if they need help. @JASMYNJax @TrevorProject @glaad @EqualityFlorida @splcenter

Full story: jacksonville.com/news/20200521/…
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🚨 Remember like one Tweet ago where I commented on all the redactions in the Parkland shooter report? @SunSentinel reported that 64 percent of it was concealed. Well, I take all of that back because I'm reading the complete version now. A THREAD 🚨
Today, a 46-pg report detailing how Broward Schools failed the Parkland school shooter was released, a ruling that it was the public's right. 1,707/1,078 lines were concealed "to comply with the shooter’s educational and medical privacy rights." Except not really.
When parsing through the supplied report, I noticed that the black redactions only physically cover a completely extractable PDF text document. Hidden morsels of the report include details of the shooter's disability, elementary-school life and a suicide assessment in 2016.
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