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[geminigirl]

So last week, at one of the juvenile detention centers, we trained a bunch of peer educators. Part of their training is to go through the Face to Face program. We brought our speaker out, and while I like our speakers, she's not my favorite. She rambles a lot and often doesn't stay on track. This time was no different, in that regard. But, in her presentation (which came just before the heterosexism/homophobia piece) she rambled on and on about her issues with transgender people, and how she doesn't like to be around them, and also spent a lot of time talking about religion. She's a Jehovah's Witness, and while I don't have any problem with that, what I do have a concern with is the amount of religion related content she included in her presentation. (FWIW, I'm not the only person who thought that-there were two other staff members from here with me who were equally appalled. I can't even really express the horror that I felt after hearing her presentation.

And so my department head called the site to apologize. (There hadn't been any objection from the site, but that didn't make it okay.) While he's on the phone with my site contact (the assistant superintendant) she starts telling him she hadn't heard any complaints and talking about how incredible I am, and how I really know how to reach the kids and so on. A. came into my office to tell me about this, and I turned red. Total embarassment.

Was kinda nice.

Comments

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

*grin* Good for you!

[geminigirl]

Oooh. I should forward you this other e-mail.

[nadeera.livejournal.com]

You know, there are a lot of those kinds of emails/calls about you. You have only posted a few which makes me think that a) you probably don't post about all of them and b) you porbably don't hear about all of them.

That's really an amazing gift/talent. I think it'd be very cool to see how this plays a part in what you do in the future.

Anyway, awesome job!

[geminigirl]

I post about the ones that I hear about because A. wanders in and tells me about them in an amusing way. I don't hear about others. I certainly do hear about complaints. Those happen too.