Have you seen the "It Gets Better" Campaign? It's an anti-bullying, anti-suicide campaign, with LGBT Adults, describing why and how life got better the day they left high school. You can find more at youtube.com/itgetsbetterproject.
It does make me wonder: does high school have to suck if you are different? What difference can a kind administration make?
This one is from Dan and Terry (and I think they started the project). Dan is better known as Dan Savage of Savage Love. Who, by the way, is talking for FREE at EMU Oct. 13, 7 p.m., Grand Ballroom, Student Center.
Information, news, and ideas about Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, and Michigan schools; thoughts about education; and occasionally other stuff too.
And NOTE: Tomorrow (October 12th) the Saline School Board will be voting on whether or not to add non-discrimination language protecting sexual orientation and gender identity. Read more here: http://blogs.salineschools.com/gradens/2010/09/23/non-discrimination-policy-8015/
ReplyDeleteAccording to the editor of Child-Psych, reason #1 for bullying is physical disability, reason #2 for bullying is sexual orientation.
ReplyDeleteREAD this child-psych post:
http://www.child-psych.org/2010/10/special-editorial-bullying-gay-teen-suicides-and-a-need-for-a-solution.html