A ntroversy that igned wh a book entled This Book is Gay available an eighth gra classroom Heyworth has led to a teacher's rignatn. The book is a sexual tn text foced on LGBTQ+ experienc. Some parents were strongly opposed to the book due to explic material seen as appropriate.
Contents:
- DO A TAMPA SCHOOL LIBRARY BOOK TEACH ABOUT GAY INTERURSE?
- 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' PROVIS PREHENSIVE, AND CLIVE, SEXUAL TN
- ‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
DO A TAMPA SCHOOL LIBRARY BOOK TEACH ABOUT GAY INTERURSE?
Award-wng teacher Sarah Bonner later qu over ntroversy around ‘This Book is Gay.’ * this book is gay teacher *
”One of those books was Juno Dawson’s “This Book is Gay.
” It's a btsellg nonfictn book that's billed by s publisher as an entertag and rmative "stctn manual" for anyone g out as lbian, gay, bisexual or 2019, Sarah Bonner won a Natnal Council of Teachers of English award for "Outstandg Middle Level Edutor.
One of the books was Juno Dawson’s This Book is Gay, a nonfictn work about sexualy and genr aimed at young adults that centers the LGBTQ+ experience. Others, cludg current and former stunts as well as stunts at Illois State Universy, fend Bonner and This Book is Gay. ISU doctoral stunt Bryanna Tidmarsh reportedly argued that LGBTQ+ stunts benef om lerature that reflects their experienc and that teachg heterosexual sex tn while neglectg other inti nstut “stutnalized homophobia.
'THIS BOOK IS GAY' PROVIS PREHENSIVE, AND CLIVE, SEXUAL TN
The Florida Standard reported that Pierce Middle School offered "a book promotg gay sex – cludg stctns on how to e 'hookup apps.'" * this book is gay teacher *
Krista Reichart-Lunny, a clil social worker and parent of three Heyworth stunts, argued that crics of This Book is Gay had a problem wh the book’s foc on LGBTQ+ inty, not s “explic” ntent. She brought a stack of children’s books foced on heterosexual inty that feature material siar to what n be found This Book is Gay to the podium to monstrate her pot.
A current Heyworth sophomore who intified as queer scribed Bonner’s classroom as a “refuge, ” acrdg to WGLT. Once upon a Grdr: How a ’60s datg service set the stage for the app that transformed gay datg. Makg This Book Is Gay available to her eighth-gra stunts got an Illois teacher reported to police — and the cint ultimately led her to leave her Bonner, a 20-year teachg veteran, clud the book what she lled a “book tastg” her middle-school English classroom the central Illois town of Heyworth March, reports.
”This Book Is Gay, by Juno Dawson, was not assigned readg, but was one of the books that stunts uld choose. ”Some parents said the ntent of This Book Is Gay was appropriate and disturbg, and they ntend that any nonheterosexual sex should stay “behd closed doors, ” the statn reports.
‘THIS BOOK IS GAY’ AUTHOR SAYS AMERI’S TEENS HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN HER BOOK
Stunts are worse-off whout books like ‘This Book is Gay’ to provi LGBTQ stunts wh an stctn manual as they navigate the world. * this book is gay teacher *
But others said those objectns were rooted Reichart-Lunny, a social worker and parent of three stunts the district, displayed books that were siarly explic but vered only heterosexual relatns, and they were aimed at a younger dience than This Book Is Gay. “I jt wanted to monstrate that the ntent [crics of the book] were talkg about, that the ‘explic’ nature of was not bee of what showed, the actual pictur … was focg on the fact that the book was referencg gay orientatn, ” she told WGLT after the the public ment perd, the board accepted Bonner’s told that she strove to expose her stunts to a diversy of viewpots. ”Parents who were upset about This Book Is Gay were sendg “a msage to the LGBTQ+ muny my room and my district that they’re ‘ls than, ’” Bonner still is ncerned for her stunts, she add.
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