San Diego school censors sixth-grader's report on Harvey Milk

This is sad and frustrating in so many ways. According to the ACLU, a San Diego County school stopped students from hearing a sixth-grader's report on Harvey Milk.

Natalie Jones decided to do her class project on the gay rights leader after watching his story told in the Oscar-winning film Milk. The day before she was supposed to present her report to the class, however, her mother was told that Natalie's classmates would need to have their parents sign a permission slip before they would be allowed to see Natalie's presentation, which would not be presented during class but rather during a different period, outside of the classroom.

The school decided that Natalie's report dealt with a "sensitive" topic and fell under its sex education policy, thus requiring the permission slips. Apparently the school board believes that it's just impossible to discuss Harvey Milk's accomplishments without a side discussion on human sexuality.

You can check out Natalie's presentation for yourself. It doesn't bring up anything that I'd categorize as "sex education", unless you don't see gay people as being anything more than their sex lives and consider acknowledging the existence of gay people as being "sexual content".