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Anti-Gay Students Prompt California Teacher to Go on Mental Health Leave: WATCH<\/b>
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Averee Patton with Parents \/ ABC10<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A California middle school teacher took a mental health leave of absence after she says students bullied her upon discovering she is gay<\/a>, something she said she had not shared with them.<\/p>\n

Estes, who teaches at\u00a0Spring View Middle School in Rocklin, first revealed what had happened in a Facebook post in which she wrote: \u201cAt the start of the school year, some students found out that I am gay<\/a> \u2014 a fact I had never shared with my students. They posted photos online and it became the talk of the campus. While it is dehumanizing and painful to be outed, my hope was that it would die down. Instead, it escalated to the point that I was being harassed in and out of the classroom. When I sought the help and support of my administration, I did not find it. The situation became so severe that I sought the support of the union, who hired me a lawyer to help me navigate this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Facebook post prompted a local news station, ABC10, to interview Estes about the situation.<\/p>\n

ABC 10 reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Estes says students started following her on YouTube and one night she got a comment from a person from Rocklin that read, \u201cDon\u2019t be stupid, be a smarty. You can join the Nazi Party. Now accepting dykes.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few months later, a student made a disparaging comment about gay<\/a> marriage during a class presentation that included remarks about \u201chomos\u201d and comments that it is \u201cAdam and Eve\u201d not \u201cAdam and Steve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch their report:<\/p>\n

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The school said it can\u2019t comment on the situation since it involves litigation.<\/p>\n

ABC10 decided to present the other side of Estes story and interviewed Averee Patton<\/a>, the student behind the presentation that included gay<\/a> marriage.<\/p>\n

Patton and her parents are religiously-motivated bigots and stand behind the school district\u2019s non-defense of Estes.<\/p>\n

Said Averee\u2019s mother Lane:\u00a0\u201cAs far as we\u2019re concerned, we back the school district 100 percent. She shouldn\u2019t have her sexual preferences pushed on you and our religious views shouldn\u2019t be pushed on anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Averee explained that the school project which started this homophobic snowball rolling was one in which she was assigned to describe a Utopian society.<\/p>\n

Said Averee: \u201cI made my rules no abortion, no racism and no gay<\/a> marriage\u2026.She told me it was disrespectful and I should have reworded it differently.\u00a0I had gone over it with my family and their said it was OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Averee later added: \u201cMy parents have taught me all that I need to know and I don\u2019t think the school needs to teach me anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch ABC10\u2019s follow-up report:<\/p>\n

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