MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisns school district's cisn to tell bar employe om displayg gay pri flags classrooms or om puttg their preferred pronouns email signatur prompted phback om stunts, alumni and others, while the supertennt said was jt reaffirmg a policy that was already place.
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- AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
- A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
- GAY PRI FLAGS SHOULD NOT BE BANNED CLASSROOMS
- TEACHER WHO SUGGTED PLEDGG ALLEGIANCE TO GAY PRI FLAG CLASSROOM NOW UNR VTIGATN
AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
A battle over rabow stickers at MacArthur High School Irvg, Texas, has hobbled the Gay-Straight Alliance and left LGBTQ stunts feelg unsafe. * gay pride flags in classrooms *
Stunts at a high school near Jacksonville, Florida, were acced several weeks ago of harassg classmat a Gay Straight Alliance club and stompg on pri flags.
A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
* gay pride flags in classrooms *
“For me, when a teacher put up that sticker, basilly nveyed the msage that ‘when you e here, you will not be hated for who you love or what you intify as, ’” said Frsto, who is gay.
GAY PRI FLAGS SHOULD NOT BE BANNED CLASSROOMS
I agree that general, classrooms shouldn't be a place to ph a particular polil iology or mpaign. However, simply beg gay school isn't a polil mpaign. It's a regnn that a teacher's classroom is a safe place for gay kids. If that's polil to you, even if the teacher never once mentns a polil ndidate, you've probably got a problem wh the existence of the gay kids. * gay pride flags in classrooms *
Frsto, who is the print of his school’s Gay Straight Alliance, or GSA, said the rabow stickers were removed overnight whout warng.
“As a gay man wh no children and no real sire to have children, I feel like I should never know the nam of the people on the school board, let alone have to stand up agast them, ” said Zachary Goff of Newberg, who lnched the petn, which has gotten over 1, 000 signatur.
TEACHER WHO SUGGTED PLEDGG ALLEGIANCE TO GAY PRI FLAG CLASSROOM NOW UNR VTIGATN
Newberg’s school board, stunt activists and teachers has been at loggerheads over the last two years over how to fight racism and homophobia wh the munty had already alt wh cints cludg a whe Newberg teacher who showed up to school blackface and a stunt who posted racial slurs and homophobic ments to a Snapchat group lled “Slave Tra. The next day, at a staff meetg, the lawsu said she told her employe “I don’t want any of you tellg stunts ’s ok to be gay or trans.
Related: Teens lgh as they beat up a gay boy & vandalize rabow flag vlent “Gay Day” rampage.