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Subject: Re: Homosexual teachers- a serious question
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Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 15:23:41 EDT
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After posting my reply to the homosexual teacher question I realized I
hadn't stated my point as well as I would have liked.

The mere fact of a teacher's homosexuality should never be grounds for
removal.  If it is at all obvious the teacher is gay then there may be an
issue to deal with.  Any overt expressions of homosexuality cannot be
tolerated any more than we would tolerate a teacher who made sexual comments.
It is entirely possible to conduct classes in any subject, including sex,
without admiting or revealing ones own sexual preferences and in fact an
admission or announcement of sexual preferences of any kind are out of place.

I've had a teacher who openly equated mental maturation with puberty, "You
grow up here (pointing to his head) when you grow up down there."  He also
liked to snap bra straps.  My high school band director was gay and seduced
his students, I resisted but a friend of mine sucumbed.  For the last 2 years
of high school and the 6 years he lived after that were years of torment for
him which lead him to drinking and wild driving which killed him.  These are
the kind of teachers that have no rights to the classroom.