The new "district approved" stickers that Hanover teachers have to use because rainbows aren't allowedjamesyishere t1_j5y8r8l wrote
Rainbows are allowed. We have been specifically told we cannot have stickers from Safespace RVA. Prior they provided all our Rainbow stickers. At my school with have a teacher with a trans flag on the door, the counselours have rainbows on their windows, and we have an openly genderqueer teacher. A total ban on Rainbows would be news to me
electric-cowgurl t1_j5yrimo wrote
Why can’t they use the safe place stickers?
jamesyishere t1_j5ytzuv wrote
Aside from Klanover being what it is, SafeSpaceRVA is an Organization that the School board does not want to claim association with
MyLastComment t1_j5zbpg7 wrote
Fuck 'em. As a Hanover resident and a a long time supporter of SafeSpace the school board can eat a dick.
tmos540 t1_j5zcwa0 wrote
If you were a teacher, there's a good chance they'd eat your job too.
_puppyro t1_j5zvxq9 wrote
Is there a particular reason for not wanting association or is it the school board's senseless grab at trying to "protect the kids" from "turning gay"
fusion260 t1_j607obs wrote
You got it in the last part.
To them, simply acknowledging the statement to “protect trans kids” is effectively “shoving sexuality down their throats” and “turning” them trans. Just by teaching about those differences or discussing it is, apparently, “grooming” them.
It’s absolute nonsense, but you really can’t talk sense into someone who believes that stuff to begin with.
I was taught to pray the gay away. All that taught me was to hate myself for 10 years and pretend to be straight when I clearly wasn’t.
Edit: a word
_puppyro t1_j609cqj wrote
Man, I feel so bad for grade school kids, I barely just escaped when the pandemic hit. We're snowflakes bc we want to be treated like humans, but they can't handle a rainbow sticker that says SafeSpace... Right
They literally see queer people being happy and get mad, jealousy much? Lol
fusion260 t1_j60ary5 wrote
Yesterday, Henrico County Public Schools posted a "Yay of the Day" picture yesterday with a teacher from Highland Springs School who was wearing a "protect trans kids" shirt.
As we can predict, several commenters were livid. They dragged their BS religious excuses into it and said that HCPS was grooming children. It's "against their religion" to refer to a child in a gender that they weren't born with, one said.
They can't point to a Bible verse that even says that, unless they're going as literal to call it a "lie," but they'll sure as hell make it sound like it's in there.
_puppyro t1_j60bgjj wrote
God I hate people, that teacher looks like a really lovely man and I'm sure his students absolutely adore him.
STREAMOFCONSCIOUSN3S t1_j60risl wrote
Lol that shirt is cringe, surely he can change into this outfit after school before going to whatever protest he's going to. Just let school be school, jeez o wheez. Not sure what he's trying to accomplish. I wish people would just shut the fuck up and let the kids learn. People need to touch some grass, get off the cable news and internet.
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