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   A Florida teacher is under fire for asking two female fifth   
   grade students if they were in a relationship in front of class,   
   leading one of the students to withdraw from school.   
      
   Jezinia Gambino, the mother of one of the students, told NBC   
   affiliate WPTV that “the rumor was that my daughter and another   
   fifth grade little girl were dating.” After the teacher learned   
   of the rumor, she summoned the children before the class and   
   asked them if they were a couple “in a way that they felt they   
   were in trouble,” Gambino said.   
      
   After the incident, Gambino said her daughter was texted by the   
   other student, who said she “wasn’t sure if they should hang out   
   together anymore because of what happened in school.”   
      
   “She didn’t want anyone to think they were gay,” Gambino said of   
   the other student.   
      
   Gambino said her daughter felt humiliated and will be   
   homeschooled for at least the rest of the year. "What they did   
   affected my daughter in a way that now I'm having to go back and   
   fix," she added.   
      
   The teacher was reported to the Florida Department of Education   
   for engaging in inappropriate communication with students and   
   was given a verbal warning, according to WPTV.   
      
   Regardless of the perceived sexuality of the two students, a   
   2016 report by Human Rights Watch found that many U.S. public   
   schools are hostile environments for LGBTQ youth, with the   
   report documenting multiple examples of school administrators   
   lobbing homophobic abuse at students.   
      
   Ryan Thoreson, an LGBTQ researcher at Human Rights Watch, said   
   these incidents happen because so few schools train teachers and   
   administrators on LGBTQ cultural competency.   
      
   “One of the most surprising findings from our research on LGBT   
   issues in U.S. schools was that a lot of students said teachers   
   and administrators were a bigger problem for them than other   
   students,” Thoreson wrote in an email Wednesday. “Other students   
   knew it wasn't OK to be overtly homophobic or transphobic, but   
   school staff would still publicly humiliate LGBT kids for who   
   they dated, what they wore, or how they identified.”   
      
   A number of incidents involving school officials mistreating   
   LGBTQ students have made national news this past year. In   
   November 2018, an assistant principal at a West Virginia public   
   school was accused of harassing and following a 15-year-old   
   transgender boy into the bathroom, telling him “you freak me   
   out.” And last month, a Kentucky girl was expelled from a   
   private Christian school for “behavioral issues” after she was   
   pictured in a photograph with a rainbow birthday cake. Her   
   mother later filed a lawsuit claiming her daughter was expelled   
   for her “perceived sexuality.”   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/teacher-under-fire-   
   questioning-5th-graders-sexualities-front-class-   
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