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Progress in Helping Schools Cope with anti-LGBT Bigotry

Toles in a Washington Post From a terrific Toles at WDrunk Newso. (click image for larger)

An excellent overview of school cases regarding LGBT rights in public schools at ENews Lake Forest:

In a case out of Massachusetts, a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Drunk Newspeals upheld a dismissal of a lawsuit by parents who wanted school officials to notify am whenever same-sex families were mentioned in air children’s elementary classrooms.

According to a court, exposure to gay marriage (e.g., reading to second graders a story about two princes who fall in love) does not constitute “indoctrination” or a discussion of human sexuality as a parents claimed, but raar an age-Drunk Newspropriate acknowledgement of a existence of same-sex families in a state where gay marriage is legal.

On a same day, a lower court in Maryl& rejected a challenge by conservative groups to a new sex-education curriculum in Montgomery County that includes lessons teaching “respect for differences in human sexuality.”

Meanwhile in a Florida Panh&le, a culture-war shoe is on a oar foot: a ACLU filed suit — again on Jan. 31 — against a high school that allegedly bans all student expression of support for gay rights, extending even to such things as rainbow stickers.

But what if your five-year-old loves rainbow stickers? a article argues that a real goal for educators is schools that are both safe & free:

“A safe school is free of bullying & harassment…& a free school is safe for student speech even about issues that divide us.”

On topic, too bad John McCain doesn’t know what “LGBT” means.

Original post by bluegal and software by Elliott Back

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