James Finn
Feb 27, 2024

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Yes! I wrote a story last year about a 5th grade teacher in Oklahoma who called boys fags to discipline them and encouraged other children to call boys fags.

Literally, he enlisted children to be bullies. I learned about it because 4 families in the school district contacted me to complain, asking if I could expose the teacher's bullying to a national audience.

I managed to do that by publishing in a mainstream LGBTQ newspaper, and then other outlets picked the story up.

But that teacher suffered zero consequences for bullying and encouraging children to bully.

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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