Monday, April 23, 2007
Monday's News
Teacher's Job on the Line for Expressing Tolerance Toward Gay Students
English teacher and faculty advisor of a student newspaper distributed to Indiana junior high and high school students published a student-written column that expressed tolerance for gays as so:
'I can only imagine how hard it would be to come out as homosexual in today's society,'' she wrote. ''I think it is so wrong to look down on those people, or to make fun of them, just because they have a different sexuality than you. There is nothing wrong with them or their brain; they're just different than you.''
Somehow, this small quote has raised hell in the Indiana school district, and this English teacher is at risk of losing her job for publishing a student's small plea for acceptance and understanding.
English teacher and faculty advisor of a student newspaper distributed to Indiana junior high and high school students published a student-written column that expressed tolerance for gays as so:
'I can only imagine how hard it would be to come out as homosexual in today's society,'' she wrote. ''I think it is so wrong to look down on those people, or to make fun of them, just because they have a different sexuality than you. There is nothing wrong with them or their brain; they're just different than you.''
Somehow, this small quote has raised hell in the Indiana school district, and this English teacher is at risk of losing her job for publishing a student's small plea for acceptance and understanding.
# posted by RainbowLibrarians @ 2:10 PM 
