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Apr. 13th, 2005 12:28 amwww.dayofsilence.org
A very important statement that should garner support from many folks. It isn't just the GBLT community that suffers. It's anyone that is harrassed and abused in the school setting. Too often we only see it after the tragedy of a death in a school. But there is almost a code of bullying. Too many things are dismissed as 'kids will be kids...' It shouldn't be that way though. Cruelty should NEVER be condoned..... never accepted. Teachers need to be aware, parents need to teach their children not to do it and if all else fails there need to be practices and procedures to STOP it.
I went through it from kindergarten on. Name calling... teasing... hitting... being called a faggot. Once or twice I fought back but it never solved it and I would end up going home to mom and crying as she hugged me. But even as great as she was, she never persued it back into the school. I think she saw it as an inevitable part of growing up. *sighs deeply*
And we all pay the price for this continuing. We take our kids to the shrink. We deal with their low self esteem. Their justifiable anger. We even go on to incorporate it into society, calling it emo or Goth. But doesn't it strike anyone as wrong? Isn't it worth fighting? What would it take to make YOU stand up and say enough?
A very important statement that should garner support from many folks. It isn't just the GBLT community that suffers. It's anyone that is harrassed and abused in the school setting. Too often we only see it after the tragedy of a death in a school. But there is almost a code of bullying. Too many things are dismissed as 'kids will be kids...' It shouldn't be that way though. Cruelty should NEVER be condoned..... never accepted. Teachers need to be aware, parents need to teach their children not to do it and if all else fails there need to be practices and procedures to STOP it.
I went through it from kindergarten on. Name calling... teasing... hitting... being called a faggot. Once or twice I fought back but it never solved it and I would end up going home to mom and crying as she hugged me. But even as great as she was, she never persued it back into the school. I think she saw it as an inevitable part of growing up. *sighs deeply*
And we all pay the price for this continuing. We take our kids to the shrink. We deal with their low self esteem. Their justifiable anger. We even go on to incorporate it into society, calling it emo or Goth. But doesn't it strike anyone as wrong? Isn't it worth fighting? What would it take to make YOU stand up and say enough?
