Allan et al Speaking the unspeakable response.

After reading Allan Et Al's Speaking the unspeakable I realized several things. The desexualization of teachers in the school environment is almost a standard as anything relating to sex and it's preferences are hidden from view until sexual education in later years. Even then sexual orientation is not touched upon enough as the process of birth is apparently more important. I remember in my 11th grade class that they once had a homosexual speaker come in and tell everyone about his exploits and how AIDs  ruined his life. He became rich through some means that I do not remember and became bored and depressed after a few years. So to pass the time he would go out and fulfill any urges he could including sex. Eventually he contracted AIDs and was thrown out of his job. That was pretty much the moral of the story, don't get AIDs or your life will be ruined, but the most interesting part of this story was the fact that he was a homosexual man who got it on with other men. This was not touched upon much at all when he was giving the lecture and was swept underneath the proverbial public school rug. When it came to the faculty of my school their sexuality was as much as a mystery as their ability to cope with students. Sure there were homosexual students and they were talked about but when it came to the staff of the school no one really knew. It was as if they wanted to keep them as a blank slate, to distance themselves as much as possible and to only interact to teach. Is this a good thing? Yes and no. While teaching is a very personal job it is also sometimes alright to be impersonal. Their lives could distract or interfere with the students studies or anger their parents if they adopt a life style that is not to their liking, adding to the stress of student life. While finding out about who you are is important I believe it should be gradual, to be grown in grade and high school then to blossom after graduation when they can be as open as they want to the real world. Then again maybe it would be a good thing for teachers to just come out with their sexual preference on day 1 at school, shouting what gender they like then beginning a lesson that has nothing to do with what they just said.

 Transgression and the Situated Body: Gender, Sex, and the Gay Male Teacher.
http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED423332