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Contents:
- COMG OUT CLASS: WHEN TEACHERS TELL STUNTS "I'M GAY"
- THE TOP 10 COLLEG FOR GAY STUNTS
- AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
COMG OUT CLASS: WHEN TEACHERS TELL STUNTS "I'M GAY"
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The viral footage posted Saturday appeared to show an Edison High School teacher playg a vio for stunts that clud a Pri flag and kiss between a gay uple.
Comg Out Class: When Teachers Tell Stunts "I'm Gay"Teacher Talks wh First-Grars It began as a classroom discsn about fai. Acrdg to prs acunts of the exchange, Gaa told the children that he is gay, and that he liv wh a partner, "someone you love the way your mom and dad love each other. " When a stunt asked if he liked beg gay, Gaa rpond that was a hard qutn to answer, but that he was proud of who he was.
"My pot is, the same standards of discretn should be applied for homosexual and heterosexual teachers, and therefore the same standard of tolerance and rpect should be applied. " A Tough Call For Teachers For gay and lbian teachers, the cisn to talk wh kids about their sexual orientatn is seldom an easy one. " On the other hand, this teacher believ, is entirely appropriate for young children to learn what the words "gay and lbian" mean.
THE TOP 10 COLLEG FOR GAY STUNTS
"What Do Gay Mean? " Tips for Talkg wh Young Kids It's ironic: While parents are ually more ncerned about younger children's exposure to homosexualy, ltle kids are ls likely to grasp what means than olr stunts are.
Some suggtns for parents om Eleanora Villegas-Reimers, associate profsor of human velopment at Wheelock College Boston: DO iate a nversatn wh children if you know they've had classroom discsns about what means to be gay.
AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
Ignorg the issue sends children the msage that homosexualy is somethg that shouldn't be discsed. " DO talk about "different kds of fai, " and clu gay and lbian fai wh a mentn of divorced and sgle-parent fai, multicultural fai, etc.