Amidst the controversial surrounding Florida HB 1557, which has been dubbed the “Anti-Grooming Bill” by supporters and the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by critics, openly gay kindergarten teacher Cory Bernaert appeared on MSNBC to give his perspective on the new law. HB 1557 prohibits teachers from discussing sexuality with very young students.
“You know, it’s two-fold, it really hits hard in my heart professionally and personally,” Bernaert said. “Professionally it truly makes me feel like I am not trusted as a professional. I know my kindergarten standards through and through and nowhere in our curriculum does it have anything about teaching sexual orientation or sexual identity.”
Bernaert continued, “So for them to say that that’s happening that, you know, it is kind of crazy, but we should be able to have discussions and that’s what we’re encouraged to do in kindergarten.”
Teacher on MSNBC worries he can't discuss his love life with kindergarteners anymore: "It scares me that I am not going to be able to have these conversations with my children…I don’t want to have to hide that my partner and I went paddle boarding this weekend." pic.twitter.com/YJperIlzJB
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The teacher claimed, “Personally, because my kids do have questions, they want to know who my partner is and pictures outside the classroom and I should be able to speak to them.”
“In order to build relationships, you talk about your home life, what you do on the weekends, that’s building community,” Bernaert said. “It scares me that I am not going to be able to have these conversations with my children because they’re going to ask about what I did on the weekend, I don’t want to have to hide that my partner and I went paddleboarding this weekend. They will ask ‘what does partner mean?’ Can I tell them what it means?”
Bernaert added that he is “afraid for myself, my colleagues and my students.”
Despite the controversy on social media surrounding HB 1557, it remains highly popular in conservative circles.
Republican congressional candidate Vernon Jones promised earlier this month that, “In Congress, I’ll introduce a federal replica of the anti-grooming bill recently passed in Florida.”
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90-10 rule
March 31, 2022 at 6:43 am
How about you shut up and teach curriculum instead of worrying about talking about your weekend. These people are self-absorbed political activists who, at best, do not care about children and at worst, are grooming them.
mclovin5959
March 31, 2022 at 7:43 am
I’m sorry, but there is something seriously wrong with people that think talking to kids about sex is okay. It’s not okay, period. I saw a post by a gay teacher who says he tells the kids how to do the best type of prep for anal sex and what lube he uses.
this is child abuse to do this to kids.
Pascal
March 31, 2022 at 8:12 am
Sorry. But this parent does not want my kids to have ANYTHING TO DO WITH GAYS and TRANS. Just like I don’t want them seeing or hearing about slasher films, swear words, or drug use.
You might like your gay world, but free citizens have a right to avoid you and your values.
Nobody
April 1, 2022 at 10:47 am
This fucking clown of a “teacher” needs to grow the fuck up and associate with people his own Age and “gender”. You talk sex with kids, you get Eunuched. Fucking be a parent, then you can talk to YOUR OWN kids about whatever.
Tom
April 2, 2022 at 12:46 pm
Because he is gay he has no children of his own. Because he has no children of his own he does not understand grooming young minds. When he says “partner” he is grooming but does not see this. He could easily say he and a friend went paddle boating and skip the whole relationship thing. But he does not skip any of it because he is inwardly wanting to be viewed as just like everyone else and that his alternative lifestyle is just as acceptable as married life style. And he is using young children in kindergarden to gain his validity. He cannot conceive that these innocent kids are taking this conversation back home with them and the parents are the ones left to respond to his sick alternative lifestyle which further confuses the kids. LGBTQ likes the confusion because they get their message out better that way. Check out Hitler Youth, Hitler did the same thing – he groomed an entire generation of little kids kindergarten age by having them sing cute Nazi songs. Hitler’s view was to change the culture you must control the message and change the minds of the youth – and the easiest minds to change are the very young because there is nothing to change, you simply have to mold them into the new thinking!
Michael G. Mitchell
April 2, 2022 at 3:30 pm
He says it isn’t being taught, then says its is important for him to be able to have discussions with his students. If it isn’t being taught why so upset about it not being taught and what prevents you from having discussions with your class except about sex?
He says he is so afraid for himself and his friends, really what about this bill cause you to be afraid?
What parents are really afraid of is someone inappropriately discussing sex with their very young and impressionable children.
L Garou
April 3, 2022 at 9:21 am
Word juggling weasel springs to mind..
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