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Seth Stambaugh Scores $75K After Losing Student Teaching Gig For Telling Kids He’s Gay

Seth Stambaugh, the 23-year-old student teacher booted from an Oregon elementary school in October after answering a student’s question about whether he was married (and explaining that legally he couldn’t marry another man), and then reinstated after threats of a lawsuit, has settled with Sexton Mountain Elementary School’s school district for $75,000. Stambaugh, who will graduate from Lewis & Clark College in the summer, says he’ll donate at least $10k to two youth-oriented local non-profits. The school will also “provide leadership training concerning issues related to sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression,” according to the settlement details. Looks like Stambaugh’s “professional judgment” — originally described by Beaverton School District officials as questionable when they transferred him to another school — was just fine, after all. Well not for Aaron Krikava, the father who originally complained about Stambaugh’s in-classroom gayness; Krikava yanked his son out of Stambaugh’s class.

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