Teachers at Catholic high schools....

[babar]

so I was looking at my old yearbooks and something struck me that I've never thought of before....

I went to an all girl Catholic high school. We had nuns, non-nuns , and men that taught us. But we also had two openly lesbian teachers. Obviously it never bothered us or the parents, as one of them was the greatest teacher I ever had. she used to take us to Cub's games(with parents permission of course). Now this was over 15 years ago....do you think it would be a bigger deal now?


they both retired a few years ago.

 

[Laurajean1014]

At my son's private school, they do not ask sexual preferences. I no longer think it matters, at least not in my area. I would openly greet a teacher (**** or heterosexual), just as long and she/he was a great teacher.

 

[mtemm]

I would think it would depend on the school. In my Catholic High School (I graduated 20 years ago), we had 2 lay teachers (male/female) who were divorced from their respective spouses. That was no problem for our school until they fell in love and decided to marry each other. They were both warned and subseqently fired.

 

[Deb in IA]

Not exactly like your situation, but our kids go to Catholic school, and 2 years ago, the high school choir teacher was fired because she was unmarried and got pregnant with her live-in boyfriend.

 

[chrissyk]

15 years ago I went to a SECULAR private high school that made a very big deal out of one of the teachers being homosexual and living with his partner This was a supposedly "liberal" school, too. I think that whether or not sexuality is a big deal very much depends on the particular school. I don't know if it would be a bigger deal now or less of a big deal now.

 

[Disney Doll]

You know what??? Back then, stuff wasn't discussed as openly as it is now. Everything wasn't considered everybody's business, everybody didn't have a "right to know" everything.

I had a teacher in high school who I am sure was gay, and quite frankly, it didn't bother me or anyone else then, and it doesn't bother me now. Then again, she also didn't "wear" her sexual orientation, and didn't make it an issue. She sort of treated it like "part" of her, but not her whole focus.

 

[disykat]

I went to public and there were teachers that people speculated were gay, I worked at a private Christian school and there were two teachers that there was speculation about as well. Like others have said, there was no proof, there was no "coming out", they just lived together and no one knew if they were more than roommates or not. Who knows? I lived with female roommates when I was teaching as well - maybe there was speculation about me!

Prior to being engaged or married, none of my students ever knew whether I was dating or not. It wasn't something I discussed with them. I do remember a boyfriend coming to a school program once, but I'm sure the kids never thought one thing about it if they saw him. He could have been my brother for all they knew. Anytime I ran into my students outside of school they were introduced to my companions by Mr, Miss, etc. - I didn't explain my relationships to them.