Studying LGBT History: California Schools Scrambling To Add Lessons About Gay Americans

The Los Angeles Times:

At Wonderland Avenue Elementary School in Laurel Canyon, there are lesson plans on diverse families ? including those with two mommies or daddies ? books on homosexual authors in the library and a principal who is openly gay.

But even at this school, teachers and administrators are flummoxed about how to carry out a new law requiring California public schools to teach all students ? from kindergartners to 12th graders ? about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans in history classes.

"At this point, I wouldn't even know where to begin," Principal Don Wilson said.

Read the whole story: The Los Angeles Times

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/16/studying-lgbt-history-cal_n_1013452.html

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