In an interview with MSNBC, one Florida kindergarten teacher Cory Bernaert expressed his disappointment how the new Parental Rights in Education law would stop him from sharing his gay life with his students at school.
Cory Bernaert a kindergarten teacher at Barbara A. Harvey Elementary School in Parrish, Fla. said while speaking with MSNBC, “It truly makes me feel like I am not trusted as a professional. I know my kindergarten standards through and through, and nowhere in our curriculum does it have anything about teaching sexual orientation or sexual identity.”
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He added, “I am afraid for my colleagues, myself, and my students.”
The gay teacher also insisted that there should be a discussion inside the classroom.
“They want to know who my partner is in pictures outside of my classroom and I should be able to speak to that,” he said.
When asked if he was concerned that he would not be able to talk about his love life.
“As educators, we build relationships with our kids, and in order to build relationships, you talk about your home life, you talk about what you do on the weekends,” Bernaert said. “It scares me that I’m not going to be able to have these conversations with my children … I don’t want to have to hide that my partner and I went paddleboarding this weekend.”
According to the Hill report:
Proponents of the law have argued for months that the law’s sole intent is to strengthen the role of parents in their children’s education and protect young Floridians from “mature” topics.
During a signing ceremony on Monday, DeSantis, flanked by schoolchildren, said his office had seen “classroom materials about sexuality and woke gender ideology” and “libraries with clearly inappropriate, pornographic mature materials for very young kids.”
Kindergarteners should learn first the alphabet ABC and not the LGBT.
Sources: TODD STARNES, MSNBC, The Hill