This sounds similar to what happened in my province in Canada, where GSA clubs (gay straight alliance clubs) were attacked by the government and they wanted to have a rule where teachers could tell parents their kids were in those clubs.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OiShinyThings
A deliberate attempt to out students who might have been closeted and also to quash spaces they had. But when I was in school (1995 - 2008) we had nothing like that. So most queer kids were closeted and afraid and had to deal with the worst shit from other students and teachers.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OiShinyThings
Like kids being full out homophobic and me being the only one in a class to tell them to shut the hell up, and the teacher told me off for saying anything.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Yeah, in the looking-at-newspapers class we had to "debate" gay marriage. I ended up thrown out of the class on a regular basis for not putting up with homophobia.
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Replying to @OiShinyThings
What the fuck. Yeah, I wouldn’t have put up that shit.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OiShinyThings
While we didn't have a law against it (to my knowledge), it was only until the late 00s that it was even remotely acceptable to be a cis queer white teen in school, let alone anyone else. And god forbid if a teacher was gay...they would 100% be "let go" for some other reason.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OiShinyThings
I can't remember it at all, but we may well have debated about gay marriage in school too. It was legalised in Canada when I was 15 and just entering high school, so it was talked about a lot.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
The class was generally about "the news" so it was whatever was in the newspapers at the time and unfortunately for us, this was gay marriage. It was a badly structured class at the best of times.
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Replying to @OiShinyThings
That sounds shit. The entire concept of making kids debate issues like that as well...ugh.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Exactly. It comes back to the issue of treating things as a "debate" that are an intellectual exercise to one group, and life or death reality to another.
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Yeah, it’s awful. Ugh.
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