Fox News is out of breath over a story about a teacher at San Juan Hills High School in the Capo Unified District that set up a “Queer Library” of books and graphic novels that provide information about anything but straight sexual identity.
You can read the full story here.
But here’s the nut of the story: “A California teacher in the Capistrano school district posted about a “queer library” in her classroom that was filled with over 100 books – some of which contained sex imagery, information on orgies, sex parties and BDSM. The teacher at San Juan Hills High School, identified on the school’s website as Danielle Serio, is known as “Flint.” Flint posted repeatedly on TikTok about books in the “queer library” and said it was available to students and has been active for five years. Many of the details covered in the books are being withheld from this story due to its extremely sexually-explicit nature.
The teacher even conducted a TikTok interview with the school principal on the subject of her Queer Library.
Any person’s path to coming out and coming to terms with their sexuality is their own journey. There are parents who believe their kids won’t be gay, trans or queer if they aren’t exposed to information about anything but a traditional heterosexual lifestyle. A teacher, seeking to educate and inform, has a resource for those seeking to learn more. There’s no requirement of any student to access this information but it is there in a discreet setting to help educate.
And for those out of breath Fox viewers and hard right wing conservatives always seeking to ban books under the guise of “parental rights,” you know your kids have a cell phone with access to almost any type of information. Would you rather they learn about a queer lifestyle in that manner or from a teacher who will treat them with respect and empathy?
LOL. Stupidest “reasoning” ever. If I want my kid to have access to a pile of gay sex manuals, I’ll handle that myself. Why a teacher thinks this is okay is straight bizarre. The obsession with students’ sex lives by public educators is simply weird. And yes, students have access to all sort of crap on the Internet – that doesn’t mean said crap needs to be in a public classroom.
As a CA high school teacher, I don’t talk to my straight students about sex, orgies, sex parties, BDSM, or show them sexually explicit material, so why is it to talk to LGBTQ students about these topics? How is making sexually explicit material available to minors seen as appropriate? This has nothing to do with supporting them, creating a safe space for them, and being empathetic. You can create an empathetic, supportive, safe space without sexually explicit material.
Ew – “Middle-aged Man Supports Graphic Sex How-To Books for Teenage Girls and Boys.” Creepy.
These people have never read a classic novel in their lives. Steinbeck’s “The Pearl” features the murder of an infant; “Lolita” is practically a how-to guide for (Fox’s favorite word) groomers; I read Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” Shirley’s “The Lottery,” and Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart” at the tender ages of 16, 15, and 12 respectively as assigned in my Advanced English courses. Not once did my parents ever have to sign a permission slip or even commented on the subject matter. The only time the right suddenly have an issue with literary themes is when it doesn’t fit into their small-minded worldview.
Newsflash: gay people exist! And they’ve always existed! I’m asexual but I have to put up with your heterosexuality permeating every piece of news, media, music, etc. that I see everyday and yet you have the gall to complain about two men or two women expressing their love the same way you do with your partners.
Hopefully these kids will learn to be more compassionate people than their parents.
exactly my point; the books are to show a student that they aren’t the only ones who are experiencing what they are experiencing. It’s to educate and inform, with empathy