Teacher Threatened & Transferred After Showing LGBTQ+ Pride Videos
Los Angeles Times reports.The candidate, Jordan Henry, “asked for emails on social justice learning standards and lessons, restorative justice and antibias education,” according to the Times.
One email, between Tiber and a curriculum adviser, was posted on social media, leading to criticism of the teacher and contentious school board meetings.“Today I talked to my class about LGBTQ pride month and played 2 short videos from youtube that were geared toward kids,” Tiber wrote in the email last June, when she was teaching online via Zoom. “A parent who heard the lesson and discussion made her daughter leave zoom and texted me asking me when I was done discussing sexual orientation so that she could let her kids back into zoom.
I was planning on doing more lessons tomorrow and Wednesday, but now I’m afraid to. Here are the videos and lessons I was going to do with my class.”She cited four videos, and it’s not clear which ones she had already showed to the class, the Times reports.
But some parents recalled seeing the one that aroused the most controversy, “Talking to Kids About Pride Month,” featuring Canadian TV personality Jessi Cruickshank and several children.
