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In the final week before the holiday break, Newton South High School’s Gender and Sexual Awareness club (GSA) and Gender Equity Club (GEC) have been put in charge of sponsoring and organizing events for LGBTQ+ Awareness Day during the school day on December 18th. According to the weekly newsletter, teachers can choose to sign up to bring their classes to participate in these events that will all take place in the school lecture hall.
One interesting line in the newsletter is this: “Students who may not be ready to engage with this material can be dismissed to cancelled class in the auditorium.” The implication is that if a student does not want to participate it is because they “aren’t ready to engage with this material.”
