“It’s really sad to me that there are going to be kids growing up that think this isn’t okay and that love and acceptance has to look a certain way.”
Jorje Botello, a teacher of 19 years at Osceola Middle School in Okeechobee, Florida, said the impetus behind Don’t Say Gay is simple: “The state is making an issue out of a nonissue for political gain. The first thing that troubles me is that it’s an unnecessary, blatant attack on education,” Botello said.
Botello is worried about what the law could mean to new teachers. “I have worries about teachers who are new to the profession and don’t understand that taking a stance on an issue like this right away could cost them the start of their profession,” he said. “What could those teachers be in the future if it weren’t for a law like this that cut their string to education?”liked to hang out with the girls at recess while the boys played football.
But with the passage of Don’t Say Gay in Florida, Jack, 17, worries that other students won’t have that support from teachers. “As a gay man and student, I was done and decided we needed to take a stand,” Jack said. “I wanted to organize.” Initially, Jack only planned on a school wide walkout, but then he thought the message would get through to politicians much more clearly if the walkout took place in high schools across the state. He sent out a walkout flyer through social media and watched as immediate positive reception flooded his inbox. In the end,which told the state's politicians what Jack wanted them to know: “Gen-Z is fed up with politicians using queer people as political pawns.
Although he worked with his school's administration to set the parameters of the protest, Jack said his principal drew the line at their intention to distribute Pride flags. Despite warnings from the administration not to distribute Pride flags, Jack passed them off to the organizers and told them to give them to the student body. “I was tired of the administration trying to silence us,” he said. “They were already trying to silence us in Tallahassee.
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