Spectrum Of Diversity In Curricul Article Analysis

Where Schools Fail to Recognise a Spectrum of Diversity in Curricula Imagine this: a 15-year-old girl is born with romantic preferences that are shunned by her parents and church. She goes to school and lies about celebrity crushes, holding onto the idea that what she’s experiencing is “just a phase.” It’ll go away when she gets older, but that’s what she thought in sixth grade. She can’t like like her best friend and feel the need to hide even further behind a mask that she can’t imagine living without. Now, she’s in health class, learning about abstinence. She is told it’s the only way to 100% ensure she won’t be a teen parent and that when she does become sexually active, she and her partner will both need protection that she cannot fathom being used on “his” end. She’s lost and afraid to speak up because of the way her health teacher dodges anything beyond the heteronormative and lets the “gay” jokes slide past. In other classes, perhaps she will never know about the Stonewall riots or how faggot is derived from the kindling of fires used to burn people like her in the Middle Ages (Meckel, 2014). By the time she has graduated, she has not received a single ounce of education relevant to her …show more content…
A majority of them reported that they had been discriminated openly against and that homophobia was quite prevalent in their schools. One 18-year-old girl asserted that “gay” was casually used as an insult and nobody called it out for being homonegative at her school. The study also reported: “The majority of LGBT pupils [86%] regularly hear phrases such as ‘that’s so gay’ or ‘you’re so gay’ in school, with two in three [66%] hearing such comments ‘frequently’ or ‘often’,” (Stonewall, 2017). The frequency of these bigoted comments is harmful to the senses and self-esteem of those they