Editing Hidden curriculum (section)

=== Heteronormativity ===
According to Merfat Ayesh Alsubaie, the hidden curriculum of [[heteronormativity]] is the erasure of [[LGBT]] identities in the curriculum through the privileging of heterosexual identities.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Alsubaie|first=Merfat Ayesh|date=2015|title=Hidden Curriculum as One of Current Issue of Curriculum|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1083566.pdf|journal=Journal of Education and Practice}}</ref> In a quote from Gust Yep, heteronormativity is the "presumption and assumption that all human experience is unquestionably and automatically heterosexual".<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Yep|first=Gust|date=2002|title=From homophobia and heterosexism to heteronormativity|pmid=24804596|journal=Journal of Lesbian Studies|volume=6|issue=3–4|pages=163–76|doi=10.1300/J155v06n03_14|s2cid=207254418}}</ref> Laws such as "[[No promo homo laws|No Promo Homo]]" that prohibit the mention or teaching of LGBT identities are considered to reinforce the hidden curriculum of heteronormativity.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Chesir-Teran|first=Daniel|date=2009|title=Heterosexism in high school and victimization among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning students|journal=Journal of Youth and Adolescence|volume=38|issue=7|pages=963–975|doi=10.1007/s10964-008-9364-x|pmid=19636739|s2cid=31080465}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.glsen.org/learn/policy/issues/nopromohomo|title="No Promo Homo" Laws|website=GLSEN|language=en|access-date=2018-04-23}}</ref> According to Mary Preston, in addition to No Promo Homo laws, the lack of [[Sex education|sexual education]] in schools removes LGBT identities from the explicit curriculum and contributes to the hidden curriculum of heteronormativity.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal|last=Preston|first=Mary|date=2016|title=They're just not mature right now': teachers' complicated perceptions of gender and anti-queer bullying|journal=Sex Education|volume=16|pages=22–34|doi=10.1080/14681811.2015.1019665|s2cid=144476429|doi-access=free}}</ref> Currently, over half of the states in the United States are not legally mandated to have any sexual education.

Depending on the cultural norm of the school, when students fall outside the heterosexual norm, other students and teachers have been shown to police them back in line with heteronormative expectations.<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal|last=Puchner|first=Laurel|date=2011|title=The right time and place? Middle school language arts teachers talk about not talking about sexual orientation|journal=Equity and Excellence in Education|volume=44|issue=2|pages=233–248|doi=10.1080/10665684.2011.563182|s2cid=143667653}}</ref> C. J. Pascoe said policing takes place through the use of bullying behaviors such as the use of words such as "fag, queer, or dyke" which are used to shame students with identities outside the norm. Pascoe said the use of LGBT slurs forms a "Fag Discourse." The "Fag Discourse" in schools upholds heteronormativity as sacred, works to silence LGBT voices, and embeds these heteronormative ideals within the hidden curriculum.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Pascoe|first=C.J.|date=2005|title='Dude, you're a fag': Adolescent masculinity and the fag discourse|journal=Sexualities|volume=8|issue=3|pages=329–346|doi=10.1177/1363460705053337|s2cid=145152666}}</ref>