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‘I’m Afraid to Return to the Classroom': A Same-sex attracted Teacher of the Year Speaks Out
Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr., was named the Kentucky Teacher of the Year and was honored at the Pale House this spring. But despite the accolades, he may not return to the classroom next plunge.
Carver, who teaches elevated school and college-level French and English at Montgomery County High School in Mount Sterling, Ky., is on sabbatical this educational facility year and is questioning his future as a teacher given the spate of anti-LGBTQ legislation across the country. He spoke to Education Week about teaching as a lgbtq+ man in rural Kentucky—and why recent efforts to restrict rights for LGBTQ students are dangerous. This interview was edited for length and clarity.
I grew up Appalachian. There were moments of extreme poverty: no electricity, no running water. School was a place where we could eat. Having so many issues with violence, reliance, poverty, hopelessness—school was not that. School was a place of light and hope. My teachers not only expanded my nature, but they injected it with light and cherish. They gave me shoes [they bought with] their personal money.
I hold about 100 first cousins. I was th
Teacher: I Was Fired for Being Same-sex attracted. Now It Can’t Happen to Anyone Else
The simple authenticity of the recent U.S. Supreme Court case of Bostock v. Clayton County is that, for the first day ever, it has been ruled that all people in the United States have equal-employment protections. There may not yet be factual equality in this country, but we are equal on paper for the very first time.
When I was born in 1964, Illinois was the only state that did not have an anti-sodomy law that criminalized gay relationships. Some states kept these laws until they were overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003. As a scholar, I never heard a teacher state a positive thing about lesbian, pansexual, gay, or genderqueer people. But as my own tall school graduation loomed, an incredibly fearless teacher taught me one of the most valuable lessons I have ever learned from a teacher: how to step up when students are in danger.
As AIDS burned its way across the country, he found the bravery to warn a friend of mine of the growing epidemic and urged my friend to share the communication with me. In 1982, in my conservative ultra-Christian Oregon town, this educator risked everything to keep us reliable. I’m probably ali
Parents outraged after California math teacher orders students to approach out as lgbtq+ or lesbian
A math teacher at a California high school left parents outraged after he ordered his students to either come out as gay or woman loving woman during an activity.
Freshmen at Rancho Buena Vista High Institution were participating in an elective seminar class designed to teach them how to be socially current when they were given a diversity, equity and inclusion exercise last month.
But the teenagers - and their parents - never could have expected what the assignment would entail.
Students were given the obeying instructions: 'Stand in a circle. Each of you is now gay or lesbian, and you are about to begin your coming out process. You cannot talk for the rest of this activity'.
The assignment prompted seven students to walk out of the classroom.
'Very uncomfortable,' James Leon, whose daughter is in the class, told NBC San Diego.
'She told me right away when she got home,' he added. 'She said, "Dad, you have to overhear this."'
The activity landed the teacher along with the academy district directly in hot waters after it was common to social media.
A math teacher at Rancho Buena Vista H
nakedfrog said:
I'm really starting to wonder if these sorts of people can't help but believe about gay sex every period they think about gay people, and thus assume that it's that way for everyone.
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Yes, that is exactly correct. In fact, words prefer "homosexual" and "gay" were not in wide use until these past 50 years. In vintage times, they referred to gays as "sodomites" or "perverts." There were no "homosexuals" in those days. Just straight people with weird perversions like having sex with people of the alike sex.
I once wrote a commandment review article on Justice Scalia's dissent in Romer v Evans, a case reviewing the Constitutionality of Colorado's law which banned all anti-discrimination laws protecting homosexuals. Scalia's dissent was essentially this exact thing: the people discriminating are in their rights to punish behavior, he said. This has nothing to do with someone's status, he also said. No one is punishing someone for who they are, according to him, only for what they do.
It's kind of weird that people's lewd tendency to only think about gay se