The Washington Elementary School District will no longer bring on student teachers from the anti-LGBTQ Arizona Christian University
For example, ACU promotes “traditional sexual morality and lifelong marriage between one man and one woman.” The school district, on the other hand, actually cares for its LGBTQ students. ACU’s goal is to promote and spread Christianity. The school district respects religious diversity among its student body.
… Are we only performing performative solidarity? Or are we going to dig deep and actually look at the partnerships that we’re doing?
Because if we’re bringing people in whose mission—who have been told with their institution of education… that, above all else… is to influence people to be biblically minded, how does that hold space for people of other faiths? How does that hold space for our members of the LGBT community? How does that hold space for people who think differently and do not have the same beliefs?
At some point, we need to get real with ourselves and take a look at who we’re making legal contracts with and the message that that is sending to our community. Because that makes me feel like I could not be safe in this school district.
That makes other queer kids who are already facing attack from our lawmakers that they could not be safe in this community.
All of those are fair points.