A teacher in Florida was fired for allegedly revealing her sexual orientation in front of her students, as well as forcing them to draw LGBT flag.
Casey Scott revealed herself to be pansexual and reportedly encouraged her art students to draw the community’s infamous flag, which she then hung on her classroom door.
A Florida teacher was fired for discussing her pansexual status with middle school students whom she then asked to draw pictures representing their own sexual orientation!!??
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That’s when school administrators asked her to tear them down. Scott placed them in a recycling bin but later crumbled them.
“I went over to the recycling bin. I grabbed all their flags and all the kids were staring at me. And I crumbled their flags in front of them,” she told reporters.
Scott was sent home and then later informed by the Lee County School District that she had been fired. She believed that she was terminated for discussing LGBT issues.
But officials of Lee County School District assured that it was over her straying from the proposed curriculum but showed the media written complaints from parents who were concerned about the conversation and the artwork.
The Teachers Union of Lee County spokesperson Kevin Daly told the reporters that Scott could legally be fired and confirmed that she did not belong to the teachers union.
“During that probationary period they can let you go without cause,” Daly said, adding that Scott’s firing could be a wake-up for all teachers when it comes to being openly gay.
“There is kind of a heightened state of where is the boundary? And what are employees supposed to do? Or allowed to do, when a topic comes up in discussion,” he said.
The Lee County School District action firing Scott took place just days before Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 1557 or the Parental Rights in Education bill into law, which prohibits school staff from discussing sexuality with children third-grade age and under and restricts related topics with older children to age-appropriate instruction.
“As the parent of three kids that are aged 5 and under, thank you for letting me and my wife be able to send our kids to kindergarten without them being sexualized,” the governor said shortly after passing the law.
