Last year at school my pupils asked if I had a wive or a girl-friend, a bolder one wrote in big letters "GAY" in the snow under my window, I think it was rather a provocation than a good guess. I saw it and read it loudly with a smile, he later added a smiley symbol to it :-). In one of the oldest classes a boy asked something like: "What are you going to do the week-end?" and another one explained to me: "That`s his gay traits." I gently answered : "Who says I don`t have them either?" which for a while led the boys to interpret in a (homo)sexual manner every operation I did with different gadgets in this chemistry lesson. One boy, the one who had explained, criticised his friends. But then it was over.
No matter what the pupils think about the teacher`s role, I don`t think that a teacher should be so vain as to consider himself to be "a good example": He should be able to JUSTIFY his teaching activities. But he can surely claim the same respect for his sexual identity as anyone. |
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