Ignoring it won’t make gay go away
I was in third grade at a conservative Christian school in 1983 when I first learned that “gay” did not merely mean happy. I discovered that when one of my classmates got in trouble for calling someone gay, and I didn’t understand why saying that was a problem.
I think in-depth discussion of sexuality can and should wait until middle school, but for there to be no mention of it whatsoever prior to that point is, I think, naive. If I and my classmates were discovering the concept in a sheltered environment two-plus decades ago, today’s students know even sooner.
February 19th, 2008 at 8:55 am
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