In 2009, sixth grader Natalie Jones chose to do a report on Harvey Milk, the first elected openly gay official. The day before she was supposed to present this to the class, she was called into the principal's office and was told she wasn't allowed to, saying it was due to sexual education. This is considered censorship of her right to free speech as stated by the First Amendment. This also violated the California Education Code because they misused a school policy to justify the censorship. It's hard to believe that California, home of the Castro, still harbors such blatant homophobes that will do anything to keep gays segregated (even if it is through silencing a 12 year old from reading her 12 page report on a homosexual man who made history).
Link to the report can be found here.
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Just because he was gay, it's "sex education." I'm sure her presentation was not about his sex life.
ReplyDeleteThat is ridiculous. People need to be a little more open minded.
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