LGBTQ Nation reports that around 100 students at Winterset High School in Iowa walked out yesterday after a teacher was placed on leave for answering truthfully when a student asked if he is bisexual. At the beginning of the school year, literature teacher Lucas Kaufmann shared a PowerPoint presentation with students so they could get to know him better. In a slide entitled “Things that describe me,” he included a rainbow flag. A student asked him why he included a rainbow flag and he said that he’s bisexual. This made some parents angry. Even though straight teachers tell their students all the time about their sexual orientation – like when they talk about opposite-sex partners, their children, or many other details from their lives – many parents don’t like it when LGBTQ teachers do the same. One eighth grade student who participated in the walk-out said, “It’s showing how homophobic our town is and it’s not a good reputation for our school. It’s proving that kids cannot come out without punishment.”
Students walk out of school in support of teacher put on leave for coming out
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