This gay kid in my class was putting something on his lips, and the teacher said, “You don’t need to put on lip gloss in class!” If a girl put on lip gloss in class, he wouldn’t say that. Then the boys in class felt like they could laugh at that kid. If the teacher could make comments, they felt like they could, too. (Cushman, 2003)

A lot of the quotes in the Cushman articles boggled my mind, because they made me think to myself, “How could a teacher ever dream of saying something like that?!” Continue reading If the teacher does it, it must be okay! →