Glendale third-gra teacher showed gay pri vios. A year later, fur bate epts

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• GLENDALE THIRD-GRA TEACHER SHOWED GAY PRI VIOS. A YEAR LATER, FUR BATE EPTS
• FEATURED STORI
• GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE
• GAY SUBSTUTE TEACHER SAYS HE WAS FIRED AFTER HANDG OUT PRI BRACELETS TO STUNTS

GLENDALE THIRD-GRA TEACHER SHOWED GAY PRI VIOS. A YEAR LATER, FUR BATE EPTS

'It's about damn time':Bryan Ruby be only active pro baseball player to be out as gayIn the vio, Pzen begs: "OK, so durg third perd, we do announcements and they do the Pledge of Allegiance. One faculty sponsor of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance is facg havg her ntract termated, another is preparg to rign, and a third has been removed om the classroom.

Two teachers said that the school’s prcipal asked teachers to take down gay pri flags their classrooms and offic.

FEATURED STORI

Several stunts said that eher they or their classmat have been lled homophobic slurs and bullied, and school staff members have failed to tervene.

GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE

Some said they’re disuraged by the Irvg Inpennt School District’s rponse to the ncerns they’ve raised through the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) and school board meetgs, and they feel ls safe at school than they did a year ago. And advot for LGBTQ stunts are alarmed by some parents’ recent mands that schools prohib stunts om anizg Gay-Straight Allianc, llg them “pornographic” and suggtg they would turn children clash at MacArthur, a suburb northwt of Dallas, was not the rult of a new law or policy, or a public prsure mpaign at school board meetgs. “They’re not gog to e out outright and say, ‘Don’t say gay, ’” she said of the school admistratn, “but they’re gog to make as difficult as possible for you to be allowed to exprs yourself or even learn about how you feel, who you are and your inty.

GAY SUBSTUTE TEACHER SAYS HE WAS FIRED AFTER HANDG OUT PRI BRACELETS TO STUNTS

” It all started wh teachers postg small rabow stickers — long a symbol of the gay pri movement — outsi their classrooms to show stunts that they were LGBTQ alli. Acrdg to her personnel file, which Stonecipher shared wh NBC News, the district’s human rourc office believed that Stonecipher had lled MacArthur’s prcipal “homophobic, ” which Stonecipher ni, and that she ma lleagu unfortable when she shared her opn about LGBTQ issu. “Bee whether the admistrators want to believe or not, there are kids who bully other kids for beg gay.

A feral judge later tossed the 2018, the district faced cricism om LGBTQ anizatns when a teacher reported that the district banned “Love Is Love, ” a ic book created to support survivors of the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, followg a plat that the book featured “extreme homosexualy. Durg the meetg, stunts scribed stanc which they’d been lled homophobic slurs and been punched by classmat.