The LAUSD Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday encouraging all district schools to incorporate lessons on the LGBTQ+ community into their curriculum.
“Schools make our kids' worlds bigger, and that's what scares a lot of intolerant people, they want the world to be small,” Melvoin said. “But we have a responsibility to prepare students for the realities of the world they live in. And it's a world that includes different types of families and people, and that's what makes it so wonderful and beautiful. And that's what we'll teach and celebrate not just in June but all year.
On Friday, dozens of parents descended on Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood in protest of a Pride Month assembly. Parents organizing the protest said they were not condemning the LGBTQ+ community, but wanted the right to decide what – and when – their children are taught on the subject. The protesting parents were met at the school Friday by LGBTQ+ advocates and other supporters, creating a sometimes tense standoff that included at least one scuffle between the opposing sides and prompting police to form a skirmish line to keep the factions separated.The Saticoy assembly included the reading of “The Great Big Book of Families,” which discusses diverse and different types of families.
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