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Lyndsey Schlax, a teacher at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, is the creator and instructor of a LGBTQ+ specific course taught to high schooler's. It is the nation's first ever on-site LGBTQ+ course to be offered at a high school. In my short experience as a soon-to-be teacher, I have already come face to face with the discomfort parents and school faculty can still feel about supporting the queer community. I know of a few teacher's who have tried to create resources for their students to have a safe space to talk with other's like them, but have been shut down by student parents thinking it is inappropriate and/or wrong. In this article, a few of Schlax's students have presented their own projects; the assignment was to put together an art gallery of LGBTQ+ works, along with which they have given personal reflections. After seeing the positive reception of the course by the students, is this a sign we should start implementing LGBTQ+ studies into more schools? If so, what grade do you think is an 'appropriate age' to start teaching kids about the community/it's identities? What do you think of the fact that this course originated at an Arts specific high school, rather than a general or even STEM specific high school? What are the benefits, and pitfalls, of teaching kids about sexual/gender identities/tolerance in art-specific settings?
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