{"id":115191,"date":"2023-06-30T03:50:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T03:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115191"},"modified":"2023-06-30T03:50:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T03:50:40","slug":"sharing-lgbtq-identity-a-fireable-offense-mississippi-high-school-warned-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115191","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sharing LGBTQ Identity A Fireable Offense, Mississippi High School Warned Teacher&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mississippifreepress.org\/23606\/sharing-lgbtq-identity-a-fireable-offense-mississippi-high-school-warned-teacher?fbclid=IwAR2zIzFtEN1s909XTmF8T9jnY-4rraZWsQ5Bv1nx2s_JMKS0GMRtEhLlbLM\" target=\"_blank\">MS Free Press:<\/a> &#8220;Bass arrived for the meeting with Alford and another teacher later that afternoon. The principal said she would not move Jack back to Bass\u2019 class, but that he had returned the pride flag, which Alford handed back to Bass.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon, though, the art teacher learned that the topic of their meeting was no longer just about one student\u2019s disrespect; it was now about her own actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents had complained, Alford said, claiming that Bass had engaged in an \u201cinappropriate sexual conversation with children\u201d and defined sexual terms to a special-education student. The art teacher instantly knew what she was talking about, and recounted how she had explained the meaning of \u201cLGBTQ,\u201d \u201cqueer\u201d and answered a question about her own identity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bass explained that student Daisy likely thought she was bisexual because she had mentioned the existence of a former girlfriend in passing while discussing a different topic in class the year before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey told me I had an inappropriate sexual conversation with children,\u201d Bass wrote in her journal. \u201cI told them the conversation was never about sex. \u2026 Kim told me that she knows I want to be inclusive, but my behavior was being interpreted as exclusive to (straight kids), and that the parents felt like I was shoving it down their throats.\u00a0&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS Free Press: &#8220;Bass arrived for the meeting with Alford and another teacher later that afternoon. The principal said she would not move Jack back to Bass\u2019 class, but that he had returned the pride flag, which Alford handed back to Bass.\u00a0 Soon, though, the art teacher learned that the topic of their meeting was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115192,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115191\/revisions\/115192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}