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Head of Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools Expresses Regret for Controversial Incident
September 30, 2009 3:58 PM
A
senior official of the Department of Education expressed regret today
for an incident that happened when he was a young teacher in the late
1980s, saying he should have handled it differently, but that society
could benefit from his error.
Kevin Jennings, director of the Department of Education’s Office of
Safe and Drug Free Schools and founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and
Straight Education Network (GLSEN), has been criticized by social
conservatives for a passage in his 1994 book “One Teacher In Ten.”
At the time, only a few people knew that Jennings, then a 24-year-old
teacher at Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts, was gay. In the
Spring of 1988, a young woman who knew Jennings was gay, brought to his
office a high school sophomore whom Jennings called “Brewster” in the
book.