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The only two teachers that they have ever spoken to have been taken away,” said Caldeira, her voice and hands shaking as she spoke at a Monterey coffee shop in her first interview since the district suspended the GSA.
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“Can you imagine? Seriously, we have kids in our club right now who are out at school, (but) they’re not out at home. Both teach at Buena Vista Middle School, which has an enrollment of about 360. The episode raises broader questions about educators’ growing ability to monitor what students do online, which accelerated during the pandemic, and about what responsibility schools have to provide safe spaces such as gay-straight alliances for LGBTQ students who may not have support from peers and parents.Ĭaldeira and Baraki, who said they have received violent threats since the story went viral in some circles, said they are worried about their students. The controversy has roiled the small district south of Salinas and east of Monterey, alarming advocates for LGBTQ youth and marking one of several recent incidents in which influential conservative voices have forced the hands of local officials. Four days later, the district opened an investigation and placed the teachers on administrative leave. One day after the article came out, Caldeira and Baraki’s presentation on the difficulties of running their GSA would prove prophetic: Leaders of the Spreckels Union School District suspended the club. 18 headlined “How Activist Teachers Recruit Kids,” criticizing Caldeira and Baraki for actions they had seen as proper: keeping club members’ identities confidential from parents and finding a couple of potential members by viewing their online activity in class. Shortly after the October conference, a surreptitious recording of the presentation was handed to a conservative writer known for asserting that transgender adolescents are part of a dangerous “craze.” She published a story Nov. One of them was Googling ‘Trans Day of Visibility.’ And we’re like, ‘Check.’ We’re going to invite that kid when we get back on campus.” Speaking about recruiting students, Baraki said, “When we were doing our virtual learning - we totally stalked what they were doing on Google, when they weren’t doing schoolwork. There, on a Saturday afternoon, Lori Caldeira and Kelly Baraki spoke to a few dozen people about a subject they knew well: the difficulty of running a GSA, or gay-straight alliance, in a socially conservative community. Over the fall, a pair of middle school teachers from the Salinas Valley traveled to Palm Springs for the California Teachers Association’s annual LGBTQ+ Issues Conference. Nic Coury/Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less Salinas’ Buena Vista Middle School shut down its gay-straight alliance club. Nic Coury/Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of3 Jessica Konen (center), a parent of a former Buena Vista Middle School student, listens to public comment at the Spreckels Union School District board meeting in December. Nic Coury/Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of3 We will have more on this real soon.Buena Vista Middle School teacher Lori Caldeira, who co-organized the UBU club, was placed on leave. There is a huge trend by politicians, MSM, elites, and many more to normalize pedophiles and child sex. Thus keeping children from mentioning this to their parents. Introduce children to sex and other subjects outside of the parents to make it normal. If you take a child to something like this there seems to be only one reason pedophilia. But again it was with my parents and not a teacher or anyone else. His children were there so we played around and ran around like children do. My dad’s cousin had a bar and my parents went to help with things. I my self was taken to bars a few times as a young child say 8 or 9 but only during the day and only when it was closed. There is absolutely no reason let alone educational reason for a child to be taken to a bar by anyone except their parents. How in the world can this happen? Seriously how can this happen? Taking underage children to a bar is terrible and unconscionable.