Future generations of Newark students will get the chance to learn about LGBTQ historical figures with a new curriculum pilot program.
That is how the pilot program approaches lessons, according to Oliveira. When learning about the civil rights movement, for instance, students will learn about Rustin, and in lesson plans about World War II, students will be taught about Alan Turing, the"father of computer science," who helped defeat Nazi Germany by deciphering its coded messages.
"A criticism I often hear is 'What does being LGBTQ have to do with that person's contributions to society?'" Oliveira said."It's impossible for me, in my mind, to separate [Rustin's and Turing's] accomplishments from their identities in the lives that they lived." "There are naysayers out there who have an agenda against our community, who say that stuff belongs at home, it's a private conversation," he said."LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum is not talking about people's private lives. It's talking about people's public lives.
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