What ticks me off about this whole arc is that it doesn’t exist. A few colleges are experimenting with an OLD language system from the 1800s (because they were thinking about gender-neutral pronouns back then). It is not being forced on them, either – it is being encouraged as an experiment. I don’t know why Deering insists on taking every social experiment and putting it into a public elementary school as some forced PC abomination. Granted, the colleges DID start the trend toward using Ms. rather than Miss, and it did eventually become accepted practice, so messing with language could indeed be dangerous.
What ticks me off about this whole arc is that it doesn’t exist. A few colleges are experimenting with an OLD language system from the 1800s (because they were thinking about gender-neutral pronouns back then). It is not being forced on them, either – it is being encouraged as an experiment. I don’t know why Deering insists on taking every social experiment and putting it into a public elementary school as some forced PC abomination. Granted, the colleges DID start the trend toward using Ms. rather than Miss, and it did eventually become accepted practice, so messing with language could indeed be dangerous.