"While Public schools have long been viewed by progressive educators as embryonic communities that should engage young people in building a democratic community of mutual support and respect, gay people have for the most part been made absent, invisible, and silent within this community and at the same time represented as the deviant and pathological 'Other'."
I chose this quote because I think it is important to realize that gay people are not recognized in certain communities. They may not stand out in a bad way but they do not stand out in a good way either, they are just simply over looked. They are in a way silenced like in Lisa Delpit's article. Thy are not supported or respected like they should be in their educational community. They are not accepted and are considered others almost putting them in a category apart from humans. I do not think this is fair when respect and support it promoted but not practiced.
"Aside from being an absence in the curriculum, gayness has been made visible in some various limited and marginalized contexts. To the extent that gayness is recognized in the curriculum, it is likely to be in the health curriculum, where it is associated with disease."
I chose this quote because I thought it was interesting as well as upsetting. The only time gayness is recognized in school is when it is being taught for a bad reason, disease. This makes students think about gayness as a bad thing from the start if they learn of the illnesses it can cause. I think this is a bad way to teach students. If this is the only way gayness is made visible in school, i do not think it should be made visible at all. It teaches the opposite of what children have been taught "if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all." I think it would be better to keep them invisible than discuss their negatives.
"These abuses get tolerated because because gay teachers and students operate in an environment where they feel afraid to stand up for themselves, and because any discussion of gay people continues to be absent in the curriculum so that homophobia is not interrogated."
This quote really stood out to me because it is so awful. It is talking about how gay teachers and gay students are treated poorly and it is ignored. They are afraid to stand up for themselves so others behavior goes unnoticed. This quote also mentions that gayness in the curriculum is nonexistent silencing the gays once again. I think this quote is terrible because gay people should not feel ashamed or afraid to stand up for their rights. It is not alright that they are walked all over when they are not even acknowledged in their curriculum.
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