Talking Points #3

Hyperlinks: 2009 National School Climate Survey


To be honest, i don't know if i did this weeks reading correct. I went on the GLSEN website and picked an article under the research tab. Fingers are crossed, hopefully its okay!


Talking Points #3: 2009 National School Climate Survey: Nearly 9 out of 10 LGBT Students Experience Harassment in School:


The author Daryl Presgraves explains how many lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender students in the U.S. have been/are being bullied at school. "The 2009 survey of 7,261 middle and high school students found that at school nearly 9 out of 10 LGBT students experienced harassment at school in the past year and nearly two-thirds felt unsafe because of their sexual orientation". This is a horrible statistic and it should not be true, but it is. Many organizations have been formed to try and stop bullying such as this, but who knows if it will ever go away.


The U.S. Justice Department have been trying to come up with ways to stop this bullying. They went to a local high school in Maryland to show the students how they are trying to stop the bullying.
U.S. Justice Dept. trying to help bullying


Extremely sad story about 14-year old boy committing suicide I don't know about you, but I have been hearing too many stories about gay teens committing suicide because of harassment, but no one really does anything to stop them. In this article I posted above, it is a bout a 14-year old boy who was gay and was being harassed because of his status in school and then online. Other teens would tell him to kill himself because "it would make everyone WAY more happier!" so then he wrote about how he always tells people that he is being bullied but no one does anything, until it is too late.


These articles connect to each other because the U.S. government is saying that they will do anything to stop bullying to gay teens, but I haven't seen anything where they actually have. It is so sad when teens put online, in black and white writing that they are being bullied and are going to kill themselves, but no one does anything. The extremely sad part is that until WE; students, parents, the GOVERNMENT start listening to these teens and actually help them, it is going to continue. People will still be bullied everyday, and people will continue committing suicide, unless we decide to help them.