Until the 1930s it was not uncommon for educators to live with lifelong partners of the same sex without public censure. For example, Chicago Superintendent Ella Flagg Young, who led the city’s school system from 1909 to 1915, one of the most prominent educators of her day, maintained a relationship with Laura Brayton for over 30 years, living and traveling together and caring for each other to the end of their lives.
as subversive, immoral and a threat to the nation’s children. As politicians sought to remove ideas and books they perceived as threatening from school curriculums, they also sought to remove educators who didn’t conform to their desired norms.The most relentless attack against educators came at the hands of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee. Established in 1956 with an intent to deter the civil rights movement, the panel, known as the Johns Committee, named after state Sen.
In 1977 and 1978 anti-gay forces pushed back against the first wave of nondiscrimination laws addressing sexual orientation, making teachers a special target again. In 1977, voters soundly rejected a Miami anti-discrimination law, wakening LGBTQ activists nationwide to the intensity of the anti-gay campaign. In 1978 California voters decisively rejected the Briggs Initiative, a proposal that would have barred LGBTQ teachers from public classrooms.
‘Academic freedom’ should the freedom to follow the curriculum without overtly instilling one’s social, religious, political or sexual leanings on the students.
And it’s also connected to who gets to go to school and where (see the end of affirmative action in front of the SCOTUS now)
We know how the groomers at the Wapo feel. 20 years ago adults who tried sexualizing children were known as perverts and arrested, today the Democrats embrace these groomers. Wapo = Democrat propaganda
Freedom to corrupt kids.
If Drag queens have the right to teach I want to see their teaching degree in child education.
Please define “academic freedom”…..I mean….you do so well defining WOMAN.
Sing on, mockingbird
Good teachers aren't egomaniacs.
Fact:why are teachers talking about their sexuality to students