Florida Teachers Develop Workaround For Don't Say Gay Law

Contents:

• MEMO CIRCULATED TO FLORIDA TEACHERS LAYS OUT CLEVER SABOTAGE OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW
• HOW FLORIDA TEACHERS PLAN TO AL WH 'DON'T SAY GAY' L
• FLORIDA TEACHERS’ RPONSE TO DON’T SAY GAY BILL IS INFURIATG CONSERVATIV
• FLORIDA TEACHERS FORCED TO EXPLA THEY’RE NOT TEACHG KIDS TO BE GAY
• LGBTQ TEACHERS STGGLE TO NAVIGATE FLORIDA'S SO-CALLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AIMED AT FLORIDA TEACHERS MAY VLATE STUNTS' RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH
• FLORIDA TEACHERS DEVELOP WORKAROUND FOR DON’T SAY GAY LAW
• TEACHERS FEAR THE CHILLG EFFECT OF FLORIDA'S SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

MEMO CIRCULATED TO FLORIDA TEACHERS LAYS OUT CLEVER SABOTAGE OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

A letter reportedly circulatg among Florida teachers is highlightg a thought-provokg sabotage of the state’s ntroversial new “Don’t Say Gay” law. The “Don’t Say Gay” Florida law fact do not mentn the word “gay” anywhere the text. Several LGBTQ advocy groups and fai on Thursday filed a jot feral lawsu agast Florida over the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, argug that the legislatn is unnstutnal and has already begun harmg children and out the letter, Moms for Liberty’s rponse...

— Al Peṭṭerson (@eyelsgame) April 1, 2022Remember when DeSantis and others sisted that this wasn't homophobic but would be applied equally to heteronormative ntent? How Florida teachers plan to al wh 'Don't Say Gay' l. Florida's ernor has signed what crics ll the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Florida teachers are tryg to figure out how the Parental Rights and Edutn Act, which opponents ll the don't say gay bill, will affect their classrooms. Will he still feel fortable tellg stunts that the Revolutnary War hero, the Pssian General von Stben, is wily believed to have been openly gay? As a gay man, he says, tells him and his LGBTQ stunts that there's somethg appropriate about them, that their inty is taboo or somehow dirty.

HOW FLORIDA TEACHERS PLAN TO AL WH 'DON'T SAY GAY' L

And I n tell you, as someone who grew up as a gay boy, how real that statistic is and how dangero is that the Republin legislators are playg wh the safety of our vulnerable McCracken is appalled when he hears DeSantis claim that schools are, the ernor's words, sexualizg kids and, quote, "jectg transgenrism to the classroom.

So I'm not teachg kids how to be gay my classroom. Acrdg to the far-right anizatn Moms for Liberty, teachers Palm Beach County, Florida have allegedly cid to take Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law lerally.

FLORIDA TEACHERS’ RPONSE TO DON’T SAY GAY BILL IS INFURIATG CONSERVATIV

1557, monly known as the Don’t Say Gay bill, was signed to law last week by Governor Ron DeSantis. “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 TEACHERS FORCED TO EXPLA THEY’RE NOT TEACHG 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. 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.

LGBTQ TEACHERS STGGLE TO NAVIGATE FLORIDA'S SO-CALLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

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. ” This fall is the first school year which teachers and school admistrators mt follow Florida’s HB 1557—lled the “Parental Rights Edutn” statute by lawmakers and dubbed the Don’t Say Gay law by crics—that banned public school districts om teachg about sexual orientatn or genr inty krgarten through the third gra, or “ a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. ) “All we want as tors is to create a safe space for our stunts and teach them to rpect each other, ” says Brian Kerek, a gay high school math teacher Osceola County, Florida.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

Cory Bernaert, a gay krgarten teacher Parrish, Florida, says his curriculum has never clud discsns of genr inty or sexual orientatn. ) “The fact that someone has to say to the teachers that you n have a picture of your spoe on your sk, shows the environment they’re havg to work , ” says McCracken, who is gay.

Michael Woods, a gay high school special tn teacher Palm Beach County, says he terpreted Palm Beach’s school district’s guidance to mean that if a stunt tells him somethg about their genr or pronouns, he mt notify the kid’s parents. But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial. ” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist.

'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AIMED AT FLORIDA TEACHERS MAY VLATE STUNTS' RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH

For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te. The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn. “The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn.

FLORIDA TEACHERS DEVELOP WORKAROUND FOR DON’T SAY GAY LAW

”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.

The ntroversial "Don't Say Gay Bill" was signed to law last month. A new bill beg troduced Florida is aimed at banng teachers om discsg sexual orientatn or genr inty their classrooms, but 's the speech rights of stunts that the proposed legislatn uld ge Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by crics, would prohib school districts om "enuragg classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty primary gra levels or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts. A memo is beg floated around between Florida teachers explag a clever sabotage of the state’s hateful new “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn recently signed to law by Gov.

Remember when DeSantis and others sisted that this wasn’t homophobic but would be applied equally to heteronormative ntent? It's a bill that's drawn natnwi ntroversy, dubbed by opponents as the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Unr the new law, he wonrs, will be nsired age-appropriate to tell his stunts that the Revolutnary War hero, the Pssian General Friedrich Wilhelm Von Stben, is wily believed to have been openly gay?

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

Demonstrators gather to prott what opponents ll the "Don't Say Gay" bill on the steps of the Florida Historic Capol Mm Tallahassee on March 7, 2022. As a gay man, he says, tells him and his LGBTQ stunts that there's somethg "appropriate" about them: that their inty is taboo, or somehow dirty. "I n tell you as someone who grew up as a gay boy, how real that statistic is, " he says, "and how dangero is that the Republin legislators are playg wh the safety of our vulnerable youth.

"So yeah, I'm not teachg kids how to be gay my classroom, but I'll tell you what I am dog.