As a gay parent, I’m so afraid my wife and I won’t be allowed to volunteer or be part of her classroom activities.
I’m looking for advice about how the stupid “Don’t Say Gay” bill will play out in classrooms. I live in this dumb state, and I’m a gay parent. My daughter is 3 and in daycare, so we’re not in public school yet, but it’s honestly killed all the excitement I might have had for her to start kindergarten. I’m afraid my wife and I won’t be allowed to volunteer, be a part of her classroom, or attend school events. I’m afraid she’ll be bullied and teachers’ hands will be tied.
Part of me wants to be petty as hell and sue the minute my daughter is read a book featuring a Mommy or a Daddy Moving is not an option for us, work-wise, financially, and with relatives we care for in the state. Private schools and homeschooling groups are unaffordable and mostly religious anyway, and I’m not thrilled with local charters. I strongly suspect this bill won’t be the last of its kind, either.
This bill is intentionally vague and trickily worded, so it’s hard to say what, exactly, it will do in individual schools and classrooms. The intention, as you worry, is that it will inhibit the discussion of or even acknowledgment of LGBTQ people, families, and history in schools, driven mainly by a mechanism that allows vigilante and right-wing activist parents to sue school districts. So while this is an attack on the LGBTQ community, it’s also an attack on teachers.
My almost 4-year-old daughter has been adamant since the end of winter break that she doesn’t want to go to preschool. Her teachers say that she is fine once she arrives, and she seems to come home perfectly happy every day. I know she has friends and takes part in the activities. But in the mornings she is really dragging her feet. She refuses to get dressed, refuses to get in the car, etc. I usually have to bribe her with a snack to get her out the door.
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