Oh, wait—did I say gay teacher? I meant straight teacher—it was a straight teacher whose straight boyfriend used the sign at her elementary school to propose.
Hillcrest Elementary’s third-grade teacher, Jennifer Halterman, was driving to work Thursday when her boyfriend text-messaged her to say he thought someone might have vandalized the sign in front of her school and she should take a careful look. As she idled at the stoplight, she glanced over and saw that the sign had indeed been altered by a mischievous soul. “Ms. Halterman will you marry me?” it read.
Just where was that boyfriend of hers, she thought. He wasn’t in the parking lot or at the entrance to the school. “I was freaking out,” she said. At 8 a.m., none of the children were there yet, so she walked down the empty halls to her classroom, where balloons and a dozen red long-stem roses stood in a vase. But there was still no sign of her boyfriend, Wesley Peters, until he emerged from behind the closet door, got down on his knee and proposed.
“I said, ‘Yes,'” Halterman said…. When the children did arrive at school that morning, they were very excited, Halterman said. “The girls ooohed and ahhhed over the ring,” and others were confused about when they could begin calling her Mrs. Peters, she said.
A gay elementary school teacher and hot tipper writes:
“When I read this article about how a woman’s boyfriend used her employer’s (a school) sign to propose to her and then how the kids later commented on her ring, I contrasted that with the fact that I can be fired if kids find out too much about my personal life. It’s flaunting their sexuality is what it is. And it’s the sort of double standard that straight people just don’t understand.”
Balloons? Seriously? What is this, third grade?
Diamonds? Seriously, I thought everyone knew Africans bled for them?
The punctuation on that sign is grounds for a no.
Oh, straight people are just so HORRIBLE
Why are gays the one privileged sexual minority? Suppose a fetishist proposed marriage on a school sign in a way that revealed his/her sexuality? “Mandy, will you marry me so that we can don our plushie duds and march off toward the sunset?” or “Tom, slap on your leathers and grab your whip. I want you to tie me to the bed and flog me as long as I live! To that end, let’s get hitched. I’ll even be your ponygirl.”
Amanda, a sexual fetish is not the same thing as your sexuality. But thanks for trying your hand at the straw man game.
straight people love cliche
I don’t get why a very easy concept, such as equality for all people living in the United States, is a hard concept for people to understand. This is suppose to be one of the core values of our citizens.
For the above posters who for whatever reason want to distract from this very core point, I really hope you take some time this holiday season to develop your sense of empathy and goodwill towards others. People like you make me want to stay in bed all day.
That was SAR, I say, that was SARCASM, son. (Foghorn Leghorn impression)
Dear Cat & Beard, that is your opinion, but I’m sure many fetishists would tell you that they felt their fetish from their earliest sexual beginnings. And, why are you so prejudiced against fetishists, anyway, that you feel they don’t deserve equal rights?
Distraction, whatever the intent, is distraction and unproductive. Get off the sarcasm crutch.
Amanda, I find it impossible to take you seriously.
@Amanda: it’s not about disclosing every particular facet of your sex life (no matter how central it might be to one’s identity) in a public proposal, it’s about allowing gay/straight people (be they vanilla or kinky) to not have to hide their sexual orientation. To your point, I’d be equally unimpressed with the case of someone saying, “Mandy, will you marry me so that we can have boring missionary sex once a month and march off toward the sunset?” Disclosing the sexual minutiae is orthogonal to the larger issue.
…unless you want to make the case for someone who wants to marry their feather handcuffs, I think Fruit Cup is right in having your argument pegged (ha HA!) as little more than a distraction.
What if a robot wanted to marry a dog? “SGT BISCUITS, WOULD YOU MAKE ME THE HAPPIEST MECHANOID IN THE GALAXY AND BE MY DOG WIFE?”
What if they afterwards they wanted to rob banks?
What if after THAT they carved their portraits in the moon with a laser!?!
In conclusion: best elementary school ever!
I’d be perfectly fine with that woman being fired. Is that what you’re driving at Savage?
I’m totally going to propose to my boyfriend at a public school.
” It’s flaunting their sexuality is what it is. “
No, I bet the thoughts “how would this play out if we were gay?” and “How will this action be viewed by our gay peers?” never crossed their minds. We can argue about whether or not *that’s* okay, but to say that they did it to actively gloat to gay people is preposterous. Obliviousness, probably…. But to imply that there was any sort of forethought with regards to how this action would be perceived symbolically by the queer community is ridiculous.