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2007-07-06 06:01:09 · 15 answers · asked by TRACER ™ 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Schools won't stand up until it starts costing them money. Parents who have children bullied like this should sue the school district for everything they got! This will get the message across.
2007-07-06 07:13:04 · answer #1 · answered by Veritatis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
*shakes head* Bullying of gay kids? Doesn't matter whether you're gay or straight, bullying just is. It sucks, horribly so. I was bullied in school for just being quiet, let alone if my preferences had ever been taken into account. The Board of Education has pressing heat from so many different groups and tries to make differences, they just try for the wrong ones. The schools in my area where just completly renovated, totally new buildings in most cases, beautiful things - but the teachers are the same and for every 1 sterling teacher that cares and should be in the profession there are 100 more that don't. Bullying is an inner school inner classroom problem and if teachers paid more attention to what goes on with the kids it would go much further to stopping the violence.
2007-07-06 16:21:32 · answer #2 · answered by imported_cherry_tart 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Stuff like that always makes me remember my own high school and send up a prayer of thanks that I had it so easy. I didn't know a single kid at my school who got bullied any more than an off-hand remark occasionally. And that rarely happened. But I knew kids who went to other schools in more rural areas (I'm from the South but went to school in a city with heavy northern and international influence thanks to IT companies setting up there) where people literally could expect to get the ever loving mess kicked out of them if they came out...and sometimes not just by other students. I agree a little with the first post...our education system is in the crapper...but if you aren't safe in your school then there's no way you can learn anything either...and I sure as heck don't want my children learning that it's ok to hurt other people just because of who they are...or for any reason for that matter. In the public school rules there is a section that mentions "a safe learning environment" or some such. It's what most people cite when they step up in front of the school board trying to get protection for their kids from gangs, bullies, and other unsafe conditions (unsafe play equipment, asbestos in the ceilings, etc etc). Hopefully one day we'll be good enough people as a whole society that we won't just ignore the pain of children just because of something they can't change...and shouldn't have to want to change for that matter.
2007-07-06 15:37:00 · answer #3 · answered by evilangelfaery919 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our school board has tried to take a stand and has included gays as victims of bullies as an important issue. But you wouldn't believe the parents and adults in the community that argue against protecting gay kids ; it's as if they think the gay kids deserve to be bullied.
It'll take a long time and maybe never in my lifetime before we see US society as a whole stop their hate.
2007-07-06 19:56:29 · answer #4 · answered by topink 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will stop when parents don't teach their children that being gay is weird or wrong
when religion stops saying it's a sin
when prejudiced people stop spouting off at the mouth and sharing their mean views
when people stop being afraid of what 'gay' means to them...ie, they stop seeing gayness as threatening, and they are comfortable with their own sexuality.
and finally, when teaches and principals start standing up for all bullied children, then the gay children will be included. A lot of the time, adults are oblivious to the things kids do to eachother.
2007-07-06 13:38:50 · answer #5 · answered by pola 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is not going to stop anytime soon. We're talking about a few million years to get out of our system.
And as to the Board of Education... I'm afraid that with the invention of the car, also the car thief was born. With the invention of the car lock, the more creative car thief. With the invention of the alarm, the more agressive thief breaking into the house and threatening the owner...
If prostitution is illegal, people just get more secretive about it.
The gay bashing will just go underground and find more subtle ways.
I think as gay community we could support those kids and learn them ways of dealing with it better. Long live the internet!
2007-07-06 14:20:07 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never, because kids will always be kids and however much you tell them not to do something, the more they will.
As for bullying, a kid will get bullied for any reason not just for being Gay, if it's not that it's something else.
It's not the kids who are to blame for bullying it's thier upbringers, what's happen to the old fashioned moral, 'treat others as you wish to be treated'. I with there was more respect in this world.
2007-07-06 13:12:08 · answer #7 · answered by Lady J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as the board continues to run things from the bible it will continue. They need to stop, and take a look at the big picture and all the hate going on, and make it stop
2007-07-06 14:53:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know. I don't know why either. Thats why the Alliance (my school along with four others GSA's and Diversity clubs all put in one group) always has to take a stand ourselves. Infact, the GSA at my group wouldn't exsist if we didnt take a stand. Good question!
2007-07-06 14:19:42 · answer #9 · answered by Blood Angel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When the adults stop bullying then maybe the children will get the hint
2007-07-06 15:17:06 · answer #10 · answered by Posh Bi Steph 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋