After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year.
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Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * california lgbtq education *
Gay pri vios shown a Glendale third-gra classroom have add an tense lol chapter to a natnal bate over how and when lsons on genr inty and sexual orientatn should be broached public schools.The episo unfold wh the disclosure that a teacher at Jefferson Elementary had shown her stunts gay pri vios and had asked for the district’s help asssg which of four specific vios would be appropriate for classroom e. California law requir stunts learn and be provid stctnal materials that expla the “role and ntributns” of among others, “lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins.”How this is acplished is left to lol school systems and teachers, said Maria Clayton, a spokperson for the partment. The state-approved social science amework not that teachers should e “age-appropriate” materials to discs and teach about the “the diversy of humankd.”Remend rourc clu materials om the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network.How early are California stunts supposed to learn about issu related to genr exprsn and inty?
But state guil note that send-grars, by studyg the stori of “a diverse llectn of fai,” cludg those “wh lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr parents and their children ... “We e the acronym LGBT to scribe the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny,” acrdg to GLAAD. “Sexual orientatn scrib a person’s endurg physil, romantic, and/or emotnal attractn to another person (for example: straight, gay, lbian, bisexual).
Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay or bisexual.”For younger children, an appropriate msage uld be more basic, said Bardi Jackson, terim puty legal director for children’s rights for the Southern Poverty Law Center. The materials were veloped s ago — and have evolved over time — by the nonprof group to bat racism and whe supremacy.The Learng for Jtice materials ed Glendale do not clu the gay pri vios, but the entirety of the lsons offered by the anizatn are meant to promote diversy and cln, cludg empathy for stunts who don’t nform to genr norms.“This notn of renrg thgs visible — we know is not a solutn,” said Jackson of Southern Poverty Law Center. A new Florida law — which crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, sayg margaliz LGBTQ people — forbids classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra.
In California schools, teachers do and mt say the word "gay" as well as lbian and transgenr lsons about nonnformg exprsns of genr. * california lgbtq education *
Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about.
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”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.
” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.
The Florida Don't Say Gay law shows the opposg velopments ncerng LGBTQ tn U.S. schools. While some stat have been tablishg legal foundatns for LGBTQ curriculums recently, Florida is gog the oppose directn and more stat are expected to follow s example. * california lgbtq education *
The exterr of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Glendale, where a third-gra teacher was removed om her teachg posn after facg threats for showg a gay pri vio. (Mel Meln / Los Angel Tim)Gay pri vios shown a Glendale third-gra classroom have add an tense lol chapter to a natnal bate over how and when lsons on genr inty and sexual orientatn should be broached public episo unfold wh the disclosure that a teacher at Jefferson Elementary had shown her stunts gay pri vios and had asked for the district's help asssg which of four specific vios would be appropriate for classroom e.
California law requir stunts learn and be provid stctnal materials that expla the "role and ntributns" of among others, "lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins. "Remend rourc clu materials om the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn early are California stunts supposed to learn about issu related to genr exprsn and inty? But state guil note that send-grars, by studyg the stori of "a diverse llectn of fai, " cludg those "wh lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr parents and their children...