A California English high school teacher – whose classroom sexually explicit materials previously led to a district-wide investigation – said that there was no difference between teaching kids Shakespeare plays and introducing them to drag, Fox News Digital is first reporting.
The English teacher works at San Juan Hills High in the Capistrano School District, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The teacher is known as “Flint” and was identified on the school’s website with the name Danielle Serio.
On March 7, Flint said, “The same people who usually scream themselves purple about keeping queerness out of the classroom and the inherent harmful nature of drag are usually the first to tell me that I should stick to teaching the classics in my own English class like Shakespeare. So let’s check. Of his almost 40 surviving plays, one in five have drag as central to the plot,” she said. “It’s almost like these people might not be the best stewards of education.”
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Flint included extremely sexually explicit books in a “queer classroom library,” which covered topics such as orgies, BDSM and a kink social media networking site. She later claimed the classroom books aided with kids’ identity development.
“People get really mad about my queer library. I have like 200 titles that are specific to the LGBT community that I’ve been curating for over eight years. Don’t get me wrong, my students love that library. It has been very helpful for many students figuring out who they are, how to relate to their peers,” the public school teacher said.
A book previously in the classroom library, “Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Being Trans…,” discussed BDSM, fetishes and a kink social media networking site.
“I find the BDSM/kink community to be extremely open-minded and welcoming in every way; it’s a place of sexual liberation,” the book…
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