A teacher at the Heyworth junr high school has rigned after parents objected to "This Book Is Gay" beg available to stunts.
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- PARENTS LL PS AFTER TEACHER OFFERS 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' TO MIDDLE SCHOOLERS ILLOIS
- THIS BOOK IS GAY BY JAM DAWSON - REVIEW
PARENTS LL PS AFTER TEACHER OFFERS 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' TO MIDDLE SCHOOLERS ILLOIS
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. * illinois teacher this book is gay *
”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. 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 JAM DAWSON - REVIEW
* illinois teacher this book is gay *
”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.
Parents filed a police report after an Illois teacher rear om Juno Dawson's This Book Is Gay to her middle school class. * illinois teacher this book is gay *
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.