A tense verbal exchange between a parent and student has thrust a gay teenager into the national spotlight.Mackenzie Atwood, a senior at Franklin High School in Franklin, Massachusetts spoke at a school committee meeting earlier this week.
CBS News reports that Atwood delivered remarks on a new class aimed at ending teen bullying in the classroom.“I am gay,” Atwood explained to the board. “Call me what you want about that, I’m being personally attacked in school about that.”No sooner had she uttered the words, when an adult in the audience stood up and started screaming at Atwood.“This has to stop.
This is the indoctrination,” the adult yells in the video.Related: 14-year-old brutally attacked at school for wearing pride flagAn emotional.