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15. If I were to try and get work as a teacher in my home state of North Carolina, they would laugh me right out the door.

Assuming they did not arrest me for being gay in a school zone.

A friend in Virginia went through something similar. Once they suspected that he was gay, they suddenly found much fault with everything he did and basically ran him off. Could he have done something? Sure, if he was a Rockefeller.

I worked in a private catholic school in another state for almost a decade. I was able to do so because they did not know and I did not say. Once it became obvious... suddenly, they were not as 'agreeable' as they once were. They found a pitiful excuse to fire me and they did so. Could I have done something about it? Not really.

The main thing that makes me feel good about that time is that, afterwards, a large number of the parents and kids were able to let me know that they felt the situation was really stupid. Not that any of those high powered lawyer parents would help me do anything about it, but they were 'understanding', which is about the best outcome I could hope for.