It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
1996, NR, 88 min.
Directed by Debra Chasnoff, Helen Cohen, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

This documentary by Chasnoff, the Academy Award-winning director of Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment, offers a survey of how American schoolteachers are dealing in the classroom with issues regarding homosexuality. The film offers encouraging evidence of what really happens when educators address issues of sexuality in age-appropriate ways.

This article appears in August 31 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.