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Casey Stt, a Cape Coral middle school art teacher, told <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">lol news affiliate NBC2</a> that on April 18 she was fired om her probatnary, nonunn teachg role after explag different sexuali, cludg her own, to her stunts. “A discsn happened class and bee of that, now I’m fired,” Stt told NBC2. The school district <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">claims she was fired for</a> “not followg the mandated curriculum.”</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, officially named the Parental Rights Edutn bill, was signed to law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) <a href=">on March 28</a>, jt a few weeks before Stt’s firg. <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Per the bill</a>, "Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards." Acrdg to <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the <em>Fort Myers News-Prs</em></a>, Stt’s stunts were sixth and seventh gra.</p><p>Per rerds obtaed by <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the <em>News-Prs</em></a>, Stt told the school that she was asked about her sexualy by her stunts after she had cid to teach a lson on LGBTQ+ pri flags. Stt had reportedly e out as pansexual to her fay the day before, which spired her to be open about her sexualy wh her stunts. "I wanted to show the kids that 's better to be open about ourselv than to hi away," Stt told the school district a wrten statement.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>This statement nflicts wh Gov. DeSantis’s public ments on childhood tn and LGBTQ+ inty; before signg the law, <a href=">DeSantis said at a prs nference</a> that was “appropriate” to teach young children "they n be whatever they want to be" — “any place, but pecially [] Florida.”</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="y26n08"></div></div><p>Stt says she was stcted by school officials to stroy the flags that stunts ma her class, and she did so. “I went over to the recyclg b. I grabbed all their flags and all the kids were starg at me. And I cmbled their flags ont of them,” Stt <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">told NBC2</a>. </p><p>Acrdg to school rerds, a plat was ma by a parent about Stt’s lson the day happened, rultg her firg. Per <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the <em>News-Prs</em></a><em>,</em> this was Stt’s first teachg job, which she started Augt.</p><p><strong>Want more om</strong> <em><strong>Teen Vogue</strong></em><strong>? 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SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm eYriHk" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="The Bt Back to School Movie Marathon to Get You Exced for a New School Year" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX fiYQJA bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Culture</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM hlgoFI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ fOAWJi summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The Bt Back to School Movie Marathon to Get You Exced for a New School Year</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd eBANPJ iponZO summary-em__k">The films are ol (for school).</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL 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class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX fiYQJA bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Polics</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM hlgoFI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ fOAWJi summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Florida HBCU Stunts Are Sug the State for Discrimatn Fundg</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd eBANPJ iponZO summary-em__k">FAMU stunts say the state is chronilly unrfundg s only public HBCU.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div 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“You nnot teach kids to be gay or straight,” Alyssa Marano said. “I jt want my kids to be able to solve for X.”

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IN A DEEP-RED FLORIDA COUNTY, THIS GAY TEACHER QU TO SAVE HER CAREER

* gay teacher fired florida *

" The district also shared plats om parents who were ncerned about the nversatn and the artwork, acrdg to the NBC 's firg amid a natnwi discsn over whether LGBTQ issu or inti should be discsed at bate was igned earlier this year by the newly enacted Florida law, which crics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill. “No one is teachg your kids to be gay! “Sometim they jt are gay.

FLORIDA TEACHER UNR VTIGATN FOR SHOWG DISNEY MOVIE WH GAY CHARACTER SAYS SHE DIDN’T KNOW LGBTQ RTRICTN APPLIED TO HER CLASS

A Florida teacher unr a state vtigatn for showg a Disney movie featurg a gay character said she wasn’t aware the state’s ntroversial law banng stctn about certa LGBTQ topics had been recently expand to apply to her gra level. * gay teacher fired florida *

I lerally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay. ”“This gay teacher, who accepts her stunts exactly as they are, outsred the unty by 15% geometry and outsred the state by 10%, ” she add. ”Hundreds of people had shown up for the meetg, largely due to an ongog ntroversy over a fifth-gra teacher who had shown her stunts a Disney movie that clud a gay character.

And I’m gay. Marano was worried about gettg fired for vlatg Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law, which lims what teachers n say about genr inty and sexual orientatn the classroom and allows for a teacher’s license to be revoked if they break the law.

Jenna Barbee, the teacher who showed her class “Strange World, ” a movie about climate change that has a gay character, has also recently rigned. Shannon Rodriguez, a parent the district and a member of the school board who is backed by the ultranservative group Moms 4 Liberty, reported Barbee to the partment after she learned about stunts seeg the movie last said she’s worried that small gtur, like displayg a Pri flag, and teachers talkg to stunts about their liv outsi of school uld be grounds for disciplary actn unr the Don’t Say Gay law.

FLORIDA TEACHER FIRED FROM ADVENTIST SCHOOL FOR BEG GAY

Steven Arz was dismissed om his $49,000-a-year posn at Fort Lake Edutn Center shortly after featurg an article published by onle news se Gays Wh Kids. * gay teacher fired florida *

“Providg stunts wh a rabow flag don’t mean you’re teachg kids to be gay, ” Marano said.

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Florida Teacher Fired From Adventist School For Beg Gay .

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