GLSEN
Reflection:
I had never come across the website of GLSEN, I found it to be really helpful for people who needed a community or a support system. In my high school I had heard about the silence for the victims of being bullied and some of the students had worn red tape or tags that they said they weren't speaking. I thought they were very courageous to do that. I didn't think there was a very strong support system in my school for those students with not many teachers caring or doing much to start conversation about what was going on with the suicides.
Once I went into college it was a different setting and professors actually talked about topics that weren't normally spoken about in school. I wish in high school it was different and that teachers were open to everything. In my WMST's class we spent a lot of time talking about the differences of what it means to be transgender, bisexual, lesbian and gay. It was something that opened eyes and many terms that we talked about I had never known with how hard it is to change your sex with taking hormones and the surgeries.
The part that was even more disturbing was that so many teachers used homophobics slurs and words when they are teaching the children of the future. How can people not understand that children are impressionable? I know that I will never be the teacher that acts this way and says those horrible things.
Jess, I agree everything your saying. Not many schools take it upon themselves to address these certain issues that go on within the school. And many teachers still are homophobic, so see it wrong to talk about LGB's in a positive matter. Hopefully we will all be able to change that!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely understand what you mean. There really needs to be a stronger initiative on confronting this topic. Take a look at my blog and watch the video on teachers talking about LGSBT in Elementary schools.
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