Texas has released a passioned op-ed calling for the end to a discriminatory law against LGBTQ instructors.Geoffrey Carlisle penned the piece for the website EdSurge, detailing his own experience in the classroom as a gay teacher.
Carlisle recalls the day one of his students asked “Mister, are you gay?”Carlisle recalls his panic at the question. “When a 14-year-old student challenges you to reveal a part of yourself that you are obligated to hide,” he writes, “there’s a level of hesitancy that comes with that.