Destiny McDermitt, a junior at Hill-McCloy High School in Montrose, Michigan, has become the center of a media firestorm after her teacher denied her the right to pen an essay about her two moms.
The New York Post reports that McDermitt’s teacher, who remains unidentified, assigned her to write an essay about a subject for which she had passion.
McDermitt’s mothers, Angela McDermitt-Jackson and Chris Jackson, married when marriage equality became legal in 2015. The 17-year-old student selected