Student Discussing Homophobic Bullying Heckled By Angry Parent Yelling ‘Indoctrination!’ At Meeting

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A high school student who was speaking out about homophobic bullying during a school committee meeting in Franklin, Mass. earlier this week was heckled by an enraged woman in the audience.

“I am gay,” Franklin High School senior Mackenzie Atwood told the committee Tuesday. “Call me what you want about that, I’m being personally attacked in school about that.”

Atwood was interrupted mid-sentence by a parent in the audience who was heard yelling, “This has to stop. This is the indoctrination.”

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Atwood, shocked and fighting back tears, removed her face mask and expressed disbelief that the parent would look her “in the eye and say

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