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Council Member Nantasha M. Williams explains vote on LGBTQ curriculum in schools
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Council Member Nantasha M. Williams, speaking as a parent of public school students, explains her support for LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum in schools. She emphasizes that such curricula promote empathy and acceptance rather than encouraging specific identities.
- Williams states she has never heard of children being taught to become gay or trans in schools
- She highlights the importance of these curricula in teaching sensitivity to differences
- Williams mentions the bullying and mistreatment often faced by LGBTQ students in schools
Nantasha M. Williams
0:52:28
Permission to explain my vote?
Diana I. Ayala
0:52:32
Yes.
0:52:32
Thank you.
0:52:33
I just wanted to to chime in as well and say that, you know, I am the the parent of four children, and two that I've raised that have all gone to public schools and I've never had any one of my children come home and tell me that they were being taught a curriculum that encouraged them to be gay, trans, or anything else.
0:52:51
I think that these curriculums are important because they teach our children to be sensitive to the fact that we're all different, to be empathetic, and to be accepting.
0:53:01
Because what I do hear from children, specifically children that are part of the LGBTQ community, is that they're often bullied and ridiculed and mistreated in our public school settings.
0:53:11
And so I think that, you know, legislations like the ones that we pass here in the council take all of those things into consideration, but I wanna demystify the fact that as a parent of a public school students, I've never ever ever heard from my children or anyone else's children that they have been taught to become gay or to, you know, behave in any such fashion.
0:53:33
And with that, I vote aye.