A ntroversy that igned wh a book entled This Book is Gay available an eighth gra classroom Heyworth has led to a teacher's rignatn. The book is a sexual tn text foced on LGBTQ+ experienc. Some parents were strongly opposed to the book due to explic material seen as appropriate.
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- PARENTS LL PS AFTER TEACHER OFFERS 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' TO MIDDLE SCHOOLERS ILLOIS
- PARENTS LL PS AFTER TEACHER OFFERS 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' TO MIDDLE SCHOOLERS ILLOIS
PARENTS LL PS AFTER TEACHER OFFERS 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' TO MIDDLE SCHOOLERS ILLOIS
Award-wng teacher Sarah Bonner later qu over ntroversy around ‘This Book is Gay.’ * illinois teacher gay book *
”One of those books was Juno Dawson’s “This Book is Gay.
PARENTS LL PS AFTER TEACHER OFFERS 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' TO MIDDLE SCHOOLERS ILLOIS
A teacher at the Heyworth junr high school has rigned after parents objected to "This Book Is Gay" beg available to stunts. * illinois teacher gay book *
” It's a btsellg nonfictn book that's billed by s publisher as an entertag and rmative "stctn manual" for anyone g out as lbian, gay, bisexual or 2019, Sarah Bonner won a Natnal Council of Teachers of English award for "Outstandg Middle Level Edutor. Sarah Bonner held a “book tastg” for stunts March and offered an array of fictn and nonfictn tl cludg Juno Dawson’s “This Book Is Gay, ” which quickly beme the epicenter of a massive ntroversy when parents lled the police over the book choice. Parents lled the ps on the teacher of 20 years after she gave stunts the optn of readg “This Book Is Gay.
Makg This Book Is Gay available to her eighth-gra stunts got an Illois teacher reported to police — and the cint ultimately led her to leave her Bonner, a 20-year teachg veteran, clud the book what she lled a “book tastg” her middle-school English classroom the central Illois town of Heyworth March, reports. ”This Book Is Gay, by Juno Dawson, was not assigned readg, but was one of the books that stunts uld choose. ”Some parents said the ntent of This Book Is Gay was appropriate and disturbg, and they ntend that any nonheterosexual sex should stay “behd closed doors, ” the statn reports.
Parents filed a police report after an Illois teacher rear om Juno Dawson's This Book Is Gay to her middle school class. * illinois teacher gay book *
But others said those objectns were rooted Reichart-Lunny, a social worker and parent of three stunts the district, displayed books that were siarly explic but vered only heterosexual relatns, and they were aimed at a younger dience than This Book Is Gay. “I jt wanted to monstrate that the ntent [crics of the book] were talkg about, that the ‘explic’ nature of was not bee of what showed, the actual pictur … was focg on the fact that the book was referencg gay orientatn, ” she told WGLT after the the public ment perd, the board accepted Bonner’s told that she strove to expose her stunts to a diversy of viewpots.
”Parents who were upset about This Book Is Gay were sendg “a msage to the LGBTQ+ muny my room and my district that they’re ‘ls than, ’” Bonner still is ncerned for her stunts, she add. ”From Your Se ArticlSchool District Pulls 7 LGBTQ+ Books From Shelv ›Iowa School District Remov Book, Cav to Far-Right Onle Bullyg ›'This Book Is Gay' Heads to Adult Sectn of Alaska Library ›Author of 'This Book Is Gay' Stands Firm Agast Anti-LGBTQ+ Opponents ›Florida School District Bans Book on Gay Pengu Couple ›Texas Judge Orrs LGBTQ+ Books Be Returned to Public Librari ›At Least 50 Groups the U. Advoted Banng Books This Year ›DeSantis Calls Book Bans a Hoax, Brags About Banng Books ›Gee Santos, Marjorie Taylor Greene Sign on to Book Ban Bill ›Illois Village Settl Discrimatn Lawsu Filed by Gay Man ›.