Like Parent, Like Child
Young kids learn a lot of their behaviors and attitudes from their parents. This is unfortunate when parents model inappropriate behavior and hateful attitudes toward others. This storyteller tried their best to reprimand a student for his homophobic behavior. Unfortunately, his parent made excuses instead of acknowledging the student’s rude behavior.
It seems like this parent was also homophobic because they didn’t see an issue with their son yelling derogatory comments at the band director. The parent said their son yelled those things because he was recently diagnosed with ADHD. We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but having ADHD and being homophobic are not the same thing, nor are they in any way related.