DeVaughn Norwood Mrs. McCree COMM 2200-089 4.3.

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Title: Broken, but Not Defeated Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that Tennessees Dont Say Gay Bill is immoral and immoral Central Idea: Because Tennessees Dont Say Gay would prevent educators from discussing homosexuality in elementary and middle-school classrooms, teachers would, in essence, be inhibited from intervening in bullying against gay students and prevented from discussing famous historical figures that were gay.

Introduction
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Attention
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Inventive story about future child being enrolled into a top-notch middle school with the expectation that hed receive the best education, but you soon find out that he has been forbidden by the Board of Education to learn about prominent historic figures such as Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, and Walt Whitman. What if your child was bullied because he found his art partner cute but the teacher simply stood by and watched the attack? How would you feel?

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Topic
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Educators are being restricted from discussing homosexuality in the classroom, which would, as a whole, prevent them from intervening in bullying attacks on gay students as well.

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Credibility

I have studied this bill thoroughly and have analyzed several instances of classroom bullying in Tennessee that have led to suicide. I have also interviewed educators who would be affected by the Dont Say Gay bill.

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Preview
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Today, Id like to discuss the problems that this bill, if enacted into law, would pose on the education of children and young teens in this state. Id also like to offer a solution to this gross problem. Transition: Let us begin with the problems this bill poses. Body

It would prevent educators from intervening in bullying attacks on gay students and hinder students from receiving a proper education
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suicide prevention and bullying