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.
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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
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”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
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”This Book Is Gay, by Juno Dawson, was not assigned readg, but was one of the books that stunts uld choose.
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 *
”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. 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.