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[pennywhistle]

Urge to kill....rising: "Schools should be steering kids away from identifying as gay," Knight said. "You can teach civility to kids and tell them every child is valued without conveying the message that failure to accept homosexuality as normal is a sign of bigotry."

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[crazymouse03.livejournal.com]

That makes me so mad. Schools can focus on racism, and other name calling and harrasement. But then to target students who make gay kids lives miserable, because of moral ground, when it isn't very moral to hate at all is just wrong to me. Arg:(

Thank you for sharing that:)

[new-odyssey.livejournal.com]

What I love is how they say that kids should learn to ignore the taunts. Yeah, because when you have kids calling you fat, dumb, or a loser, screaming that you should just cut your wrists EVERY SINGLE DAY, five days a week, it's so easy to ignore.

[doctor-teeth.livejournal.com]

People seem to get this myopia when they look back at school after graduating high school. Most of the behavior that kids are told to "ignore" when they are in school would get the one doing it arrested in the real world. Queer kids deal with physical assault, intentional humiliation and even death threats on a regular basis. I'd love to see the leaders of these conservative groups recieve a daily shove up against a locker and a threat that they are going to die, and then have a police officer tell them that they should just ignore it. It would be even better if the police officer was an african-american queer woman who objected to their existance on "moral grounds".

[http://users.livejournal.com/___ifwinterends/]

Yes but the problem is kids SHOULD be getting the police involved in terms of harrasment. In high school a girl would constantly harrass me, and I got the cops involved after the principal failed to do anything about it, and you can bet she stopped so much as looking my way when she was threatened with a police-enfored expulsion, harrassment charges, and a restraining order. Kids need to educate themselves on their rights, ignore what is taunting because you will get that EVERYWHERE, and get down to bussiness when it comes to things getting serious. Sadly, if someone is calling you fat, you can't do a thing about it. But it's part of life. However if someone is harrassing you based on sexual orientation, race, creed, gender, or religion, you have a civil right, especially if these harrasments contain any form of profanity or threats, as they often do. Kids just need to stand up and take advantage of the law instead of thinking they are at the mercy of school boards.