Teachers fear chillg effect of Florida's so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' law : NPR

Contents:

• FLORIDA TEACHERS FORCED TO EXPLA THEY’RE NOT TEACHG KIDS TO BE GAY
• FLORIDA TEACHER TELLS SCHOOL BOARD, "NO ONE IS TEACHG YOUR KIDS TO BE GAY! …I HAVE MATH TO TEACH"
• IN A DEEP-RED FLORIDA COUNTY, THIS GAY TEACHER QU TO SAVE HER CAREER
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• TEACHERS FEAR THE CHILLG EFFECT OF FLORIDA'S SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW
• CAN YOU TEACHG SOMEONE TO BE GAY/TRANSGENR?

FLORIDA TEACHERS FORCED TO EXPLA THEY’RE NOT TEACHG KIDS TO BE GAY

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.

” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy. 5 ln fe agast the Temecula Valley Unified School District ls than a day after nservative board members voted to reject a state-endorsed curriculum that clus a short bgraphy of gay rights lear Harvey Milk.

Komrosky, the board print, has lled Milk a "pedophile, " while dozens of atten, many om outsi the school district, livered impassned speech agast teachg anythg that refers to sex or homosexualy to elementary school-age stunts. After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year. The announcement is the latt dispute between state and lol officials after the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board voted 3-2 on May 16 to reject the curriculum, wh some board members claimg there was not enough parental volvement the curriculum creatn procs as well as makg ments attackg gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk.

FLORIDA TEACHER TELLS SCHOOL BOARD, "NO ONE IS TEACHG YOUR KIDS TO BE GAY! …I HAVE MATH TO TEACH"

The curriculum – for gras one through five – ntas supplemental rource material for teachers that clus a short bgraphy of Milk, who is believed to be the first openly gay polician elected to public office California 1977. The materials scribe his liftyle and his work for gay rights California until his assassatn 1978.

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

Komrosky said June that his statements about Milk “were not based upon him beg a homosexual, but rather based upon him beg an adult havg a sexual relatnship wh a mor.

“No one is teachg your kids to be gay!

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

“Sometim, they jt are gay. I lerally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay. Amelie Howell, a sophomore high school, held a sign that said “Edutn is not doctratn” and told the board, “It feels like a lot of people are speakg for .

Begng wh the 2022 passage of the Don’t Say Gay law – which prohibs class stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra – DeSantis and the Republin-ntrolled legislature have voted their tenure to monizg LGBTQ+ people and makg schools ls safe for LGBTQ+ stunts.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

DeSantis has gone to war wh Disney over s opposn to the Don’t Say Gay law, has lnched numero bldsis attackg “woke doctratn” schools, and has taken ntrol of the state’s tn system wh handpicked admistrators and the power of the bully pulp. The Don’t Say Gay law – which has been expand to all gras – has led to the banng of LGBTQ+ books  schools and the forced outg of stunts to their parents by school admistrators. In the school district where one teacher recently beme the foc of a state Department of Edutn vtigatn for showg kids a Disney film that happens to clu a gay character, a recent school board meetg epted:.

TEACHERS FEAR THE CHILLG EFFECT OF FLORIDA'S SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

"No one is teachg your kids to be gay! "Sometim, they jt are gay.

I lerally don't have time to teach your kids to be gay.

Florida recently (March 28, 2022) passed the famo “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which prohibs stctn about gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (GLBTQ) people until the fourth gra and other stat are followg su. Here are six reasons why “don’t say gay” bills are wrong and why we need LGBTQ-clive tn at all gra levels. This n also protect them om later engagg dangero behavrs that rult om homophobia cludg dg and alhol abe, skippg school, and self-harm.

CAN YOU TEACHG SOMEONE TO BE GAY/TRANSGENR?

Bullyg and name-llg are often based harmful anti-gay stereotyp. Some of the most mon sults elementary school are “gay, ” “lbo, ” and “fag.

“Sometim they jt are 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.