Accusing Teachers of Sexual Abuse Will Harm Students
Teachers are often the best support system kids have. Attacking them puts that at risk
You don’t have to be a QAnon cultist to agree that child sexual abuse is a serious problem worthy of attention.
But you do have to be one — or at least a Q-adjacent conspiracist of staggeringly stupid proportions — to believe American schools are teeming with pedophiles who use library books to lure kids into their sexual lair.
And yet, it’s 2022, so here we are.
Because America is a shit show.
With legislation banning or severely restricting discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, Florida lawmakers and their defenders have gone on the offensive, accusing all who object to such a law as “groomers” of young children.
Why, they ask, would anyone want teachers to discuss sex and sexuality with elementary school students?
Of course, it’s a trick question.
There were no classes or lessons on such subjects in those grades.
But schools might have had books featuring same-sex parents, or teachers might have had pictures of their same-sex spouses on their desks. Presumably, these would now be…
