Adrastus

So, im pretty sure my teacher deserves an award of excellence, amongst many other things. We have just finished watching a movie "CRAZY" in class - its a French film. Anyways, for our discussion, and little exercise we talked about stereotypes, "Homosexual" and "Heterosexual" being compared in almost all of them. We talked about the main character - who struggled through his teenage years in a family of 5 boys, and he was gay.

As soon as she said "Je ne sais pas si vous le savez - mais ce n'est pas une choix de toute" (I don't know if you guys know this, but it isn't a choice at all) I became proud. She talked about how people are still scared to come out, and whipped out a few nice statistics about it. It was a nice touchy topic, and she said somethings which i'd have liked to say. "Not being a choice" one of them

Anyways, out of gratitude, I decided to write her an anonymous letter thanking her for what she has done - educating about 50 people in my graduating class about this topic which is usually avoided like the plague in most class discussions.

Thank you - I felt this was necessary

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Jamd

Hey, that's awesome. but, lol, from the thread name i thought something else was going on. XD did she react to your class in anyway to the letter?

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Seth

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I fucking love the French.

Good on her, good when people realise your not just choosing your lifestyle. Makes me happy when people can actually begin to understand.

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143hill

That's amazing to hear. I have this one teacher who has talked to us numerous times about how wrong it is to make someone feel unsafe at school because they are gay, how a student came out to her and asked to stay in her room at lunch because he was having a hard time coming out. To top it off, she pulled me aside one day before class and asked me how DOS went [I cheered it up a bit for her- I was the only one out of 2600, not exactly a bully-free day). Still, after all the shit I went through on DOS, it made me so happy that she reached out and cared about me. So I pretty much love her a lot. It's great to hear that you had an experience similar to mine. Having open-minded teachers whose opinions get heard by 200 students a day is a great thing.

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