4th Grade Teacher Shares Eye-Opening Classroom Discussion About Her Girlfriend

Asiah Holm’s fourth grade students had been asking for details about her husband or boyfriend for months. One day last spring, the Alberta, Canada, teacher decided to share more about her personal life in a frank yet age-appropriate conversation with her students … and she recorded it on her phone. In an Instagram video that received almost 80,000 likes in three days, Holm told the kids that she didn’t have a husband or a boyfriend. They were initially silent. “There are more options,” Holm said in the video. “If I don’t have a boyfriend …” “A girlfriend!” one of the kids shouted. “You’re a lesbian?!” another child asked. “Yeah, I am,” said Holm. The rest of the recording includes shocked, sweet and hilarious responses from the kids, like, “You don’t look lesbian,” and, “How are you lesbian? You’re so pretty.” One even asked if Holm’s girlfriend is as nice as she is. Holm fielded all of the responses with a wide smile and good humor, then in true teacher fashion, she reiterated the highlights: “We’ve established that a human can have a boyfriend, a dog — and they can also have a girlfriend. There is no such thing as ‘looking
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