Post by Dabeagle on Sept 28, 2014 10:29:36 GMT -5
A teacher in Canada has been suspended over 'inappropriate' interactions with an underage male. Before we go off the deep end, no there was no sexual contact. The teacher, an out male, said the 14 year old sought him out for advice on coming out. The teacher spoke to him on Facebook and allegedly drove him to school on more than one occasion. To be sure, in today's climate, these are actions that are ill advised - and ashamedly so. Teachers used to be well respected members of the community for imparting information to our kids. Now they are expected to teach this and not that, not to comfort, etc, et al ad nauseum.
The article says that when the student moved on to High School the teacher gifted him with copies of 'Latter Days' and 'Trick'. 'LD' is unrated, according to Amazon, and 'Trick' is rated 'R'. This generates another conversation - it is widely known that placing any gay content into a film garners an 'R' rating. Look at 'GBF' which is a teen comedy in every sense of the word and it was rated 'R'. Now, 'Trick' is about a go-go boy trying to find a way to hook up with a more innocent young man - both of age - but it hardly deserved an 'R' rating. 'LD' mostly fit that as well - and there is something inherently wrong about anything that may affect you legally that rests on the MPAA's idea of what appropriate or not. The Ontario College of Teachers thinks that giving the teen these movies was distributing sexually explicit materiel. Bullshit.
The few Facebook chats they listed were the kind people comfortable with one another might say, but hardly pornographic or inappropriate. I can only hope that the 'College of Teachers' had much more reason that what appears to be 'because gays make us feel icky'. Gay kids need mentors and people to show them what's what the same as straight kids, what's so hard to understand about that?
The article says that when the student moved on to High School the teacher gifted him with copies of 'Latter Days' and 'Trick'. 'LD' is unrated, according to Amazon, and 'Trick' is rated 'R'. This generates another conversation - it is widely known that placing any gay content into a film garners an 'R' rating. Look at 'GBF' which is a teen comedy in every sense of the word and it was rated 'R'. Now, 'Trick' is about a go-go boy trying to find a way to hook up with a more innocent young man - both of age - but it hardly deserved an 'R' rating. 'LD' mostly fit that as well - and there is something inherently wrong about anything that may affect you legally that rests on the MPAA's idea of what appropriate or not. The Ontario College of Teachers thinks that giving the teen these movies was distributing sexually explicit materiel. Bullshit.
The few Facebook chats they listed were the kind people comfortable with one another might say, but hardly pornographic or inappropriate. I can only hope that the 'College of Teachers' had much more reason that what appears to be 'because gays make us feel icky'. Gay kids need mentors and people to show them what's what the same as straight kids, what's so hard to understand about that?
