I agree that general, classrooms shouldn't be a place to ph a particular polil iology or mpaign. However, simply beg gay school isn't a polil mpaign. It's a regnn that a teacher's classroom is a safe place for gay kids. If that's polil to you, even if the teacher never once mentns a polil ndidate, you've probably got a problem wh the existence of the gay kids.
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- TEACHER REMOVED US FLAG OM CLASS, ENURAGED STUNTS TO PLEDGE TO GAY PRI BANNER
- AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
- GAY PRI FLAGS SHOULD NOT BE BANNED CLASSROOMS
TEACHER REMOVED US FLAG OM CLASS, ENURAGED STUNTS TO PLEDGE TO GAY PRI BANNER
Stunts at a high school near Jacksonville, Florida, were acced several weeks ago of harassg classmat a Gay Straight Alliance club and stompg on pri flags. “For me, when a teacher put up that sticker, basilly nveyed the msage that ‘when you e here, you will not be hated for who you love or what you intify as, ’” said Frsto, who is gay.
Frsto, who is the print of his school’s Gay Straight Alliance, or GSA, said the rabow stickers were removed overnight whout warng. “As a gay man wh no children and no real sire to have children, I feel like I should never know the nam of the people on the school board, let alone have to stand up agast them, ” said Zachary Goff of Newberg, who lnched the petn, which has gotten over 1, 000 signatur. Newberg’s school board, stunt activists and teachers has been at loggerheads over the last two years over how to fight racism and homophobia wh the munty had already alt wh cints cludg a whe Newberg teacher who showed up to school blackface and a stunt who posted racial slurs and homophobic ments to a Snapchat group lled “Slave Tra.
AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
The next day, at a staff meetg, the lawsu said she told her employe “I don’t want any of you tellg stunts ’s ok to be gay or trans. Related: Teens lgh as they beat up a gay boy & vandalize rabow flag vlent “Gay Day” rampage.
Wills has tried to stand up for other LGBTQ stunts and even started a Gay-Straight Alliance. “Stonewall” actor Jeremy Irve eyed for role as gay superhero Green Lantern HBO Max seri. A California teacher is beg vtigated for sayg she removed the US flag om her classroom and enuraged stunts to stead pledge allegiance to a gay pri banner, district officials said.
Pzen then shook her head and said she told the stunt that a flag was ed the classroom that he uld “pledge [his] allegiance to” before shiftg the mera to a gay pri banner hangg on a wall.
GAY PRI FLAGS SHOULD NOT BE BANNED CLASSROOMS
In an earlier vio spotted by the “Libs of TikTok” Twter acunt, Pzen showed off many gay pri banners her classroom durg Pri Month while wearg rabow spenrs and earrgs. As Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — go to effect Friday, some of the state’s public school districts have begun rollg out new polici to lim LGBTQ issu and inti om beg discsed the Tuday night, the Leon County School Board unanimoly approved s “LGBTQ Inclive School Gui, ” which clus a provisn to alert parents if a stunt who is “open about their genr inty” is their child’s physil tn class or wh them on an overnight school trip.
Clifford / AP fileThe so-lled Don’t Say Gay law, HB 1557, bans “stctn” about sexual orientatn or genr inty “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. ” A provisn the law also requir school staff members to alert parents about “cril cisns affectg a stunt’s mental, emotnal, or physil health or well-beg, ” which many advot have terpreted as a way to force tors to out their gay or trans stunts. They have also ntend that will not prohib teachers and stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 attack at the Pulse gay nightclub crics and legal experts have said the broad language of the law uld open school districts and teachers to lawsus om parents who believe any nversatn about LGBTQ people or issu is “not age appropriate.