Oh my days. Someone finally talking some actual sense. People are people, we are all human, and deserve the same rights, as long as they hurt no one else. Note, that I say hurt. Not make uncomfortable. Nobody should not be treated less than because it makes someone else feel more comfortable. Despite who they love, who they worship, what colour their skin is, where they come from, and what gender they are or identify as. It's not hard science. Let's start treating everyone with a bit of respect.

I’m not understanding these comments. Where does he say he’s discussing these interview questions with his students while he is teaching? He’s just being interviewed for his political opinions and no where does it say he’s teaching his political opinions. Please stop demonizing educators. Our police and nurses have been demonized for other political reasons. We are losing the most important people in our society that provide us education, safety, and healthcare. These fields are struggling to keep up with the turnover because the political/religious craze going on.

As a gay man and retired elementary teacher of 37 years, I knew it was my professional obligation to bring the broader world to my students through the curriculum. Luckily, I live in a state that does not ban books, so I was able to represent our own "bubble" community but far beyond with books. I facilitated discussions where students would respectfully disagree with each other about social issues, often using their parents' thoughts. This was great, seeing students articulate thoughts and listen to others who might think differently. Never, ever, would I interject my personal political views or opinions into my classroom. A teacher is merely a facilitator and one who equips students to thrive in a broader world.

That's basically the whole point of conservatism: create a bubble, don't let anyone in, and try to stop anyone from leaving.

Retired HS Science Teacher....and Gay. I had many difficult moments in my 31 years. But Many More Positive ones. No regrets. Although the last two years were very problematic. But those problems were not related to my being Gay. School politics, new laws that I disagreed with caused me to number crunch and jump ship.

There is no hatred bigger than Christian Love

Equal rights for others does not mean less rights for you. It's not like a pie.

I'd sooner have an LGBTQ teacher than one who peddles the Bible to kids.

This should’ve been a longer interview

Looks like a nice school. It’s important that kids learn about accepting differences, be they cultural or religious or abilities rather than learning how to carry on bigotry, hating and stereotyping. I like how he listens carefully to the reporters questions, pauses to consider, then gives an honest answer. He seems to be a good, caring teacher, coach and role model. We need to learn that this is a big country that works best when we accept differences in others. Our differences make us stronger as a nation, a state, a community.

So for all the folks against the ability for teachers and students to discuss anything about being gay, if you knew an LGBTQ child and their parents were homophobic and would kick them out of the house if they found out--would you rather them have a teacher at school to mentor them and ask questions to or go online with sexual predators, pornography, and sextoration? To me, this goes without question that a trusting adult and teacher is a far better avenue.

How about just teach these kids how to read, write, and do some math. Along with history and civics; some of these kids today know nothing about American history or how to write a complete sentence.

What does being gay or straight have to do with teaching?

This teacher is a model to be followed. Thank you for sharing.

This intolerant society is just disgusting.

The title did not match the content. No offense to the guy being interviewed, but he didn’t really say anything. This was a pretty pointless video.

Letting people know that LGBTQ peope exist, they already know some, they are decent normal people, and should be valued and accepted is not shoving anything down anyone's throat. It is educating them to the reality of the world they live in. Forcing all people to read your bible on school unless you are teaching it as literature is shoving religion down people's throats.

I agree with the teacher.

Great story. Thanks!

It has nothing to do with the LG, but the T and not even the T necessarily, but the T as it relates to gender ideology insanity.

Very well stated.

If schools are going to ban books, the first one to go should be the bible. It's chock-full of content not suitable for children.

I never knew any of my teachers sexual preferences. Why do people tell total strangers what they do in private.

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I don't understand why different views are so threatening !! Where to you think non-heterosexual identified people come from? They come from heterosexual couples! If your positions are as solid as you portray they should stand up to a little scrutiny!

63 y/o gay man here. Trying to remove sexually graphic books from school libraries or preventing teachers from teaching misinformation like "You can be born in the wrong body" has nothing to do with "thinking outside the bubble." Notice the reporter doesn't ask him about these controversial issues.

No child should know what their teachers personal life is,none.

Teachers should never discuss their personal lives in school.

People give children zero credit. I was well aware of straight and gay as a child and so were all of my friends. Nobody cares! Live and let live.

I'm so proud of him.

Diversity is the spice of life. Living in a bubble only makes you more intolerant.

Exactly right about the buble.People only seek out the news about like minded people and associate with like minded people. People will even move to a different are to be around like minded people. It is like we are living in 2 countries.

How many kids from anti lgbt states want to enroll in this school? Looks like a charter school.

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Why do his students even know hes gay. Or heterosexual. Is his sexuality being discussed in the class room?

Never knew if my male teachers were married, let alone who they married. Female teachers were identified as married by Miss or Mrs. My point is Don't Bring Your Sexuality to School or Work. Nobody needs to know or care.

Very well stated! All this hate is from religious people and those that trying to change everyone lifestyle.

Isn't it living in denial that transgender activists are not THE reason that there is pushback? I would prefer not to lose gay marriage over transgender ideologies.

iam not for religion or Lgbt thought in schools

Openly gay teacher? Yeah, just no. Your students don’t need to know anything about your sexuality, period.

Your sex life is not something you should be discussing with kids at school or anywhere else.

Why do we need to know this is gay , I knew nothing about my teachers personal or privates lives ?

You had openly gay students 35+ years ago none of them used their sexuality as a specialty like today

Stop the division

Every time I hear "openly gay" now I think about something Andrew Scott said recently. It's OK to just say "gay".

The next generation having more empathy, please! They're so removed from reality, glued to their phones, and extremely apathetic. They dont believe in tradition, work culture/ethic, or behavior. They spend their time/money on fatasy, but they won't face reality. I feel sorry for the Millennials, Gen Zer's, and future to come.😢

Awww my God bless this amazing man.

Why does a child need to know what you prefer sexually?

😢 i support good people, and from experience, athletic bully people are weak to gun, a kid who got bullied can have gun, and defend themself

Hes a basketball coach LMAO he has more blubber than John Madden.

So he said he and his students don’t experience any harm or discrimination. Why is this network trying to stir up trouble where there isn’t any?

Are all teachers gay that’s all you. Tend to see

just be a teacher. leave your sexuality out of your job

Is there a particular reason why this specific person is being highlighted?

G is the only real letter.

They should teach no outsiders like In the uk

I know this network isn’t considered the news, but don’t they have an obligation to telling the truth?

I dont think a teachers sexuality should be known by students regardless of preference. Does this really need to be a conversation right now?

Why do they feel the need to talk to children about their s3xuality?

Here's the deal...just teach the subject you have a degree in. Students don't need to know your sexuality, your politics, who you're married to or what you're doing on the weekend....just TEACH.

I did not grow up seeing any blacks or Muslims in my schools . My towns was extremely racist but surprisingly not homophobic. I don't know if its the same ? I permanently live in Europe now.

yeah, in most normal people's bubble showing explicit books to kids is frowned upon brotha

It’s definitely the younger generation who just had everything handed to them who have caused this backlash. They became so militant.. They’ve single-handedly destroyed all progress of gay rights activism for the last five decades.

We're in westchester ? I grew up in westchester and bad school systems tend to be yonkers new Rochdale port Chester. Ofcourse these school systems are going to be diverse and a more unexpected student population. I grew up in Hastings on Hudson Ardsley and armonk . Good school systems educated students and very little diversity . Being gay in an educated community poses less of a safety issue or bullying in wealthy areas . Its just my opinion and was fortunate to finish my schooling in Greenwich country in 1983 with close to zero homophobic comments . It certainly would NOT had been the same if I was in the yonkers new Rochelle or Stamford connecticut systems .

Leave sexual education to the parents. Teachers are there to teach math, science etc etc. not to tell kids about sexual education and sexual orientation.

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Well said!

What backlash? He seems very happy. Good for him.

The teacher should keep his personal life to himself

Is there some reason that the camera drifts down to focus on the man’s stomach? What is the point? I thought we were watching some kind of interview. It’s incomprehensible to me.

Of course stuff is going on outside the bubble, but do kids need to know all the gritty details about it? It went from sex education to kink education, from science to political correctness. We have a separation of church and state, now we need a separation of woke and state.

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I'm confused: why is this man deciding what is right and wrong for our entire world?

This guy does not represent me and the views of many other gay people. Transgenderism has nothing at all to do with gay people. Leave it to the mainstream media to bunch in transgenderism and gays in the same article.

What if a teacher is a drug addict? He doesn't do drugs in class but he feels that he must tell all of the students that he is a drug addict and does drugs when he is home with his partner. Is that something the kids should know?

It’s the content in those LGBT books that is so disturbing

People don't need to know who or what other people do in the bedroom. Plain and simple. Creeps are running wild now. Thanks everyone!

Basketball coach? Idk. This looks like smoke. '...a teacher and basketball coach just north of NYC...' looks like a 2nd grade teacher.

​ @willmont8258 I grew up in Kansas in a time without youtube and much social media other than facebook and we didn’t have cable at the time either. In contrast to many of those who grew up in larger cities, I didn’t even know what the word gay meant. I found out what it meant after being called gay by strangers I had never met and then after looking things up online figured out what they had meant. How do you think it makes a child feel when they are 8 years old with strangers asking you if you’re gay at school and at camp, and you don’t even know what the word means, let alone why they are asking despite it being none of their business? No single adult-my parents or teachers-ever told me what it meant and I didn’t even know if it was normal to be that way. I kept it bottled inside for years and it ate me alive. I was bullied at school and had an abusive dad at home and a sick mom, so who was I to turn to? Had I had a single adult tell me that it’s normal, it could have erased the sleepless nights and suicidal ideations because I knew that what I was feeling was normal. You have to understand that times were very different then and that in some families still, being gay will get you kicked out of their house and shunned by their community. With that being said, a teacher lending a hand may be the safest adult to cling to in order to ensure the child’s safety. I hear where you are coming from but in your comment, you make the erroneous assumption that all families accept LGBTQ folks and that their parents will talk about it at home-well, that’s not at all the reality and organizations like “Gay Straight Alliance” or having an LGBTQ teacher as a mentor on how to navigate their home situation and feelings allow kids a venue to talk freely about their thoughts and feelings in a safe space for visibility when they may not receive that at home. Bringing up their sexuality to their parents at home is something that could even put the child’s safety and wellbeing at risk, let alone compromise their relationships with their family and possibly the house they call home. Thus, why not provide an avenue for kids to discuss this at school? Or would you rather kids resort to trying to find an online community that may compromise their safety in a different way. You can try and censor your children all you want, but with ubiquitous technology, they will find a way to deceive you as a parent regardless, but this depends on how open you are to discuss this as well as the access to other people that can mentor them at school or a place of worship for example. It’s like you can have organizations based on race at school like a Black or Asian student organization, you can have robotics clubs and community service clubs, but you can’t have a safe space for LGBTQ students or those questioning their sexuality a safe space to discuss this simply because it’s about sex? If they can’t discuss it at home then where else with a trusted adult? The irony is states like Oklahoma and Louisiana are quick to put a copy of the 10 commandments in the classroom despite the fact that many folks are either atheists or are of a religion other than Judaism and Christianity and yet having a safe space for LGBTQ teens to talk freely about their thoughts and feelings when they may be unable to at home seems like the most unreasonable thing to them. No one is insinuating that they should talk about sexual activity, but if they can’t talk about loving someone of the same sex at home, or at school, online is all you have left-and with sexual predators, sextortion, and pornography, that seems like a stark contrast from having the ability to discuss it in schools if they have a tumultuous home life. While many with your perspective see this issue as black and white, it is far from it and while I respect your opinion and understand it, I urge you to think about things from a perspective other than your own.

Hey creeper, leave them kids alone 😐

What the hell does OPENLY GAY even mean in this day and age? Its not 1977,Jesus!

I wish the gays and straight people, would keep it behind closed doors. If I don't see it in the public then I don't see at all, I don't even think it or want to hear it.🙉🙊🙈

Religion sucks.

SO, ANYTHING GOES?

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Keep your sexuality to yourself. You don't have any right to use the public schools to push your own lifestyle. Just teach kids how to read and write, math and science, history and civics. Leave your own opinions and personal life out of it. No propaganda poster in public schools pushing this or that sexuality or lifestyle. Teachers have no right to instill their own values in the children and override the values which parents want for their children.

The culture wars of today are about special treatment, not equal treatment. Membership in a marginalized or minority community doesn't make you special or mean you're right and every one else is wrong. The foundation of education in America is liberal at all levels in 2024, from educators to school boards to administrators to law makers. It is simply impossible for anyone in these diverse communities to claim victimhood in anything related to education. You can't be the victim while wielding the tools of oppression in your favor.

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Another victim worshipper

You lost me when you wrote "American Library Association"; they do just about all the Gleichshaltung activity that everyone here is bitching about!

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Stop child grooming !!!!

Put Jesus in your heart....

There are no trans kids; they are abused. Leave them alone, and the backlash stops.

My fantasy is that every LGBTQ person in the States (like MTG refusing to use the title Dr. with Dr. Fauci, I refuse to use the word "United") stays home from work for one day and see what happens. "Sorry, you're not getting that organ transplant today, the doctor didn't show."

Groomers be wildin

Hey look when I was growing up what you did behind your door was your business now today it looks like what you do behind your door has to be everyones business and as they say if you don't like to be infringed on then don't infringe on me