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Parents file a police report after teacher offers LGBTQ-themed book to her middle schoolers
Nbcnews.com ^ | 05/17/2023 | Danielle Campoamor

Posted on 05/17/2023 6:22:45 AM PDT by massmike

Sarah Bonner has been an Illinois middle school teacher for 20 years, and she has always tried to offer her students a diverse collection of books.

One of those books was Juno Dawson’s “This Book is Gay.” It’s a bestselling nonfiction book that’s billed by its publisher as an entertaining and informative “instruction manual” for anyone coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans.

“By Wednesday, I received notice that parents had gotten a hold of pictures from that book that their child had taken in class,” Bonner says. “By Friday, I was told that parents had filed a police report against me for child endangerment.”

The day after Bonner learned about the police report, she received a letter from her school district — she had been placed on paid administrative leave.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: arth; books; childabuse; children; education; gaypredator; groomer; grooming; homosexualagenda; illinois; lolita; oralsexpictures; pedosandpederasts; porn; predator; publicschool
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To: CFW

Parents are lazy. If they really cared, they’d check out the schools before they moved into the neighborhood. They’d run for school board. They’d become a school employee or volunteer. They’d check their kids’ textbooks and homework assignments every day. They’d get to know the teachers, their kids’ friends and other parents. They’d attend school events.


41 posted on 05/17/2023 8:00:09 AM PDT by bgill
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To: massmike

My 8th grade English teacher 50+ years ago had us read Oscar Wilde’s “Picture of Dorian Grey”. I thought at the time it was about homosexuality, and it was upsetting. I think she did that on purpose, but it was subtler.


42 posted on 05/17/2023 8:27:41 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: massmike

That book is simply inappropriate and would be inappropriate with similar content titled “This is Straight.” Books with explicit sexual content should not be offered as reading choices by teachers to students.


43 posted on 05/17/2023 8:59:41 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: logi_cal869

Safe place means in teacher parlance. “A place where I can encourage students to defy the morals and values of their parents and be silent when they indulge in risky behavior.”


44 posted on 05/17/2023 9:01:32 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: moovova

Good. Groomers should not feel safe. They should be very concerned of the legal and financial consequences of their evil conduct. As to other remedies. There is a God. I will leave it at that.


45 posted on 05/17/2023 9:05:28 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: CaptainPhilFan

Heyworth is small town central IL, but is only a half hour south of Bloomington-Normal, where Illinois State and Illinois Wesleyan kolleejez are. No doubt there are plenty of lib parents in the rural subdivisions along US51 that fall into Heyworth’s school district.

Looking at the school’s fakebook page, I see the usual: over emphasis on sports, teachers looking cool with the kids, and prom dresses that are not very modest.

(I remember Neil Bortz saying once, when talking about teens smoking and the risk taking mindset it expands, quoting some stats from somewhere. One of the teen smoking stats was: If your teen daughter smokes, then the chances are much greater that when she gets home from the prom that won’t be the first time that night she takes off her prom dress.)


46 posted on 05/17/2023 9:09:46 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: massmike
“The notion that I was putting children in danger because of books — I didn’t feel safe,” Bonner says. “I knew I couldn’t go back.”

Good decision.

47 posted on 05/17/2023 9:15:46 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: massmike

Isaiah 5:20-21

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight!


48 posted on 05/17/2023 9:20:39 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: bgill

That sounds like more work than simply homeschooling.


49 posted on 05/17/2023 9:48:59 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: metmom
🐸 #MemeUnition 🐸


50 posted on 05/17/2023 10:36:24 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-AaA)
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To: EasySt

You can always spot the homeschooler - he/she is at least 3 grade levels ahead of students their age in public school.


51 posted on 05/17/2023 10:39:19 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: twister881

QWERTY....the abuser in Lolita, and her groomer.


52 posted on 05/17/2023 11:02:34 AM PDT by miserare ( "Equity" is the new word for Communism.)
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To: Sicon

Oral sex between two young boys.


53 posted on 05/17/2023 11:07:50 AM PDT by miserare ( "Equity" is the new word for Communism.)
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To: GOPJ

The Four R’s are now:

readin’, ‘riting, ‘rithmetic , and rectal sex.


54 posted on 05/17/2023 11:10:44 AM PDT by miserare ( "Equity" is the new word for Communism.)
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To: logi_cal869

She is hardened in her sin.

No repentance, no forgiveness.


55 posted on 05/17/2023 11:19:49 AM PDT by miserare ( "Equity" is the new word for Communism.)
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To: sport

...and the sailor’s dog.


56 posted on 05/17/2023 11:21:59 AM PDT by miserare ( "Equity" is the new word for Communism.)
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To: gitmo

Amen!


57 posted on 05/17/2023 11:22:54 AM PDT by miserare ( "Equity" is the new word for Communism.)
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To: miserare

Though from some of the content I read online, the sailor’s dog may learn a few new “tricks”! ... poor thing.


58 posted on 05/17/2023 11:24:18 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: EasySt

Looks and sounds like my granddaughters’ families!


59 posted on 05/17/2023 11:28:01 AM PDT by miserare ( "Equity" is the new word for Communism.)
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To: massmike
It's a good way to go.

Public school teacher who are child molesters should be treated as such.

60 posted on 05/17/2023 12:01:04 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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