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When a teacher came out to his class

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  1. bingostring

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    I saw this on a friends Facebook page..

    When a teacher came out to his class during a lesson about anti-gay bullying, he received the sweetest letter in response from a 9 year-old student.

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    Read full item here on Pink News

    A 9-year-old girl gave this heartfelt letter to her teacher after he came out as gay · PinkNews.co.uk


    It reads:

    “Dear Mr R
    “Even though you’re gay, I will always treat you the same way as I do now. I still think about you the same way as I used to. You’re a great teacher and these are just some of the word’s (sic) that I would describe you as: great, amazing, fantastic, brilliant, awesome and brave.
    “The reason why I say brave is because you shared a personal secret which was very brave.
    “You don’t have to feel scared because I know that everone in the class feels the same way as I do.
    “From A x x
    PS. We are all proud of you”




    The teacher told PinkNews:
    “As a primary school teacher I’d always worried about mentioning my sexuality, despite the fact that my colleagues talked about their husbands, wives and significant others all the time.
    “Then, as part of anti-bullying week, I’d asked who’d heard ‘gay’ being used as an insult. Almost every one of my class put their hands up. I was stunned.
    “Then I asked who thought that people who were gay or lesbian were bad or wrong in some way, again almost every hand went up.
    “After speaking to my Head, who was very supportive, we agreed I could tell the class that I’m gay so they at least knew one gay person and hopefully explain that when people use that word they’re talking about me.
    “The reaction was fantastic – there were a lot of gasps and shocked looks and some basic questions – do you have a boyfriend, etc – but after a couple of minutes they were over it and we moved on to the rest of the lesson.
    “The letter came a couple of days later. The little girl who wrote it gave it to me at the start of the day with all the other slips about dinner money, school trips and doctors appointments.
    “Reading it brought tears to my eyes and it took me a little while to compose myself. When I thanked her she just shrugged and repeated something one of the boys in the class had said during the lesson, ‘It’s just your life’. Then she went back to her maths.
    “For my class it was a surprise sure but, to them, it was just something simple and easy to file away as another piece of information. There was no judgement, no follow up, just acceptance.
    “Now, I can mention my fiance as easily as any other teacher and my class know me a little better. I’ve had a lot of letters and cards over the years, but this one I know I’ll keep forever.”
     
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    Awe so cute. It's great to know the new generation is so accepting and intelligent!
     
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    :') Glad that class was accepting. This gives me hope for when I teach albeit it was primary school.
     
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    Omg so cute~! :love:
     
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    This bring back hope of me being a teacher
     
  6. this is the best thing ever
     
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    Wow that's amazing, very heart warming :slight_smile:
     
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    Wonder what they would say about a transgender person...
     
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    It feels like yesterday when they fired a woman for being a lesbian, because of "pedophilia" and "sexual assault" for literally no reason besides her sexuality. Cause obviously she was a lesbian…so…she was molesting all the children.


    This is great. Not the above story, the thread story.
     
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    Aww... this, this is why I love little kids. Hell my little cousin is like this towards my aunt. Gotta love the lil' ones!
     
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    Aww..this is so nice! <3
     
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    Adding 10 points to humanity :grin: Primary kids are the best :grin:
     
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    That's really sweet :icon_bigg
     
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    :thumbsup: This
    I was just about to say it but you beat me to it .
     
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    Yes world would be a better place for us.

    In one game I've used to hang out with many women around the world, especially young mothers. Those kids are result of their upbringing.

    Seeing things get better this way always warms my heart.

    @Kasey: If they are as sweet as you, that shouldn't be a problem.
     
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    aw!! I had a few teachers in high school who were gay and eveyone just kind of knew but no one talked about it, it's great that we are getting positivity and support for being just as open as anyone else.
     
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    Aww thats so great!
     
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    I had a really cool gay Spanish teacher. Shame he got fired for coming to school drunk :bang: :eusa_naug
     
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    <3 <3 <3
    This kind of reaction restores my faith in humanity. :slight_smile: