Three Girls Work Together To Get This Substitute Teacher Fired For The Horrible Response She Had To A Student Being Adopted By Two Men

A week before Thanksgiving one Utah classroom was exercising a conversation classrooms all across the United States were likely to participate in as the food-filled holiday of gratitude approached. Students were sharing what they were grateful for!

A substitute teacher in one particular fifth grade classroom, however, not only missed the mark, but behaved atrociously when her student answered what he was thankful for: “I’m thankful that I’m finally going to be adopted by my two dads,” he said.

Utah is known for many things, and one of those things is for being particularly conservative and religious. So perhaps with that context it isn't entirely surprising that the teacher snapped back: “Why on earth would you be happy about that?”

The bar for her behavior was already low, but she managed to reach new depths of depravity with what she did next.

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According to the local news, The Salt Lake Tribune:

For the next 10 minutes she lectured the 30 kids in the class about her own views, how “homosexuality is wrong” and “two men living together is a sin.” She looked at the boy, too, and told him: “That’s nothing to be thankful for.”erinscafe

The 11-year-old's soon-to-be father is Louis van Amstel, a professional ballroom dancer and choreographer you may recognize from the TV reality show Dancing With the Stars.

Along with his husband Josh of 3 years, the couple planned to adopt the child, Daniel. Daniel struggled immensely with the incident, terrified his dads would be swayed from adopting him and nervous about the teacher being exposed.

In fact, it was three girls in Daniel's classroom who became the heroes of this story for refusing to tolerate the bigotry.

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Louis turtned to Twitter to vent in this heart-felt video.

Can you even imagine?

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“It’s absolutely ridiculous and horrible what she did,” van Amstel told The Salt Lake Tribune. “We were livid. It’s 2019 and this is a public school.”

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“He was so fearful that this could make us think that we don’t want to adopt him,” van Amstel told the local news while choking back tears.

“That’s definitely not going to happen. But this situation really hurt him. This person really hurt us.”LouisVanAmstel

Twitter user @erinscafe amplified the story and was able to highlight the problems and cultivate a progressive conversation among Twitter users.

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Along side that, she offered up startling statistics about adoption gaps that more people really need to read.

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Twitter users reached out in solidarity and support.

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They expressed the emotional turmoil of reading the impact on the students.

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They also searched for tangible ways to help the girls who made sure this teacher's behavior didn't go unchecked.

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Someone even took a moment to express the reality that those girls have parents doing something right, too! Especially in such a conservative environment as Utah.

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Heard that!

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Same though.

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Round of Applause!

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Thank you, dads!

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The kids are alright.

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THIS:

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Real Talk!

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How dare she? Honestly.

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What a roller coaster.

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YESSSS

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Outside of Twitter, social media users also responded with plenty to say about the ex-substitute teacher.

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And further praise for the girls.

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Can you imagine? She continued to argue as she was escorted out. So miserable.

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Kids are smarter than they get credit for.

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So many dad jokes.

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And this home is LOVING.

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This is why some opinoins should be kept to oneself.

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It just goes to show there's still work to be done.

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