Curricular omission teaches all students that queer people have done nothing worthwhile.

Evidence

Within the typical secondary school curriculum, homosexuals do not exist. They are ‘nonpersons’ in the finest Stalinist sense. They have fought no battles, held no offices, written no literature … invented nothing … The lesson to the heterosexual student is abundantly clear: homosexuals do nothing of consequence. For the homosexual student, the message has even greater power: no one who has ever felt as you do has done anything worth mentioning. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 828

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports student-teacher pedagogical concerns in the Hamline polyad connection to the logic-of-domination threads from chapters 5 and 8.
• SEED: Angle for a lesson-planning essay: the ‘nonperson’ mechanism — how omission itself functions as a curriculum of value hierarchy.