In my school half of the people are idiot the other half are ok, we have NEVER been taught about homosexualilty.
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Re:Does Your School...
Date: 2007/12/06 21:03
By: SkapunkFAN
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In my High school there is one semester long health class that you take freshman year. Out of that whole semester I think we talked about homophobia maybe once. Though the school definitly inforces its anti-homophobia rules, one of my friends got exspelled for having "dont be a fag" etched in his laptop.
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Re:Does Your School...
Date: 2007/12/09 07:11
By: marky18a
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Although tolerance of homosexuality has come a long way since 1967, we still have a long way to go before most people will accept it as ‘normal’.
Meanwhile, to avoid problems, I think it’s important for each gay person to carefully assess his/her peculiar environment and, as far as possible, conduct him/herself in line with the communal ethos.
Okay! Sometimes that will mean being less than frank with people. But so what? Needs must when the devil drives etc.
Nowadays good ‘perception management’ can improve one’s life immensely.
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Re:Does Your School...
Date: 2007/12/16 06:37
By: RSco
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At my school, I complained to my GSA about the homophobic remarks that I hear all the time (I'm not out, just general comments. They don't make fun of people who are out to their face...) so we made a bunch of posters with statistics and "Gay is not a derogatory term" stuff like that. The biggest problem is hearing the word "fag" tossed around all the time, but we weren't going to put that on the posters...my teachers are pretty supportive-well two of them (the ones who are lesbian. Duh.) But one of the teachers at my school rides teh bus in the afternoons and completely ignores all the homophobic comments made....it's ridiculous. No wonder there are two out students in a school of 400 kids. "Be who you are and say what you feel-those who mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind."
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Re:Does Your School...
Date: 2007/12/17 07:34
By: FootyStarPaige
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No, my school has done nothing on homosexuality or homophobia in my school ever as far as I'm aware. It's very sad really because even most of my friends are extremely homophobic which I wish wasn't the case I would really like it if we were taught about this in school though as I feel it would open people's eyes to the fact that homosexuality doesn't make someone an 'alien' and that they're still the same person.
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Re:Does Your School...
Date: 2007/12/17 10:00
By: funkeymunkey813
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FootyStarPaige wrote: No, my school has done nothing on homosexuality or homophobia in my school ever as far as I'm aware. It's very sad really because even most of my friends are extremely homophobic which I wish wasn't the case I would really like it if we were taught about this in school though as I feel it would open people's eyes to the fact that homosexuality doesn't make someone an 'alien' and that they're still the same person.
we go to the same school and i agree with her i'm considering coming out next year and when i do i'm gonna take a campaign to change the education we get (i feel like i'm running for president lol) and as for being an alien i pretty much am an alien from everyone else anyway so..... yeah Danny xi use the worst pictures for this site so i don't get hit on by randy 18 yr olds lol its happened!
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Re:Does Your School...
Date: 2007/12/22 20:56
By: hazardous
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My school actually does teach about homosexuality. There’s a course called Career and Life Management which is mandatory to take by our provincial learning system in order to graduate. It contains a section on homosexuality and homophobia, not quite how indepth they went. But gay and lesbian speakers came in to talk about them and their situation.
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Re:Does Your School...
Date: 2007/12/24 18:06
By: simmons247
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Well at My school ( High School) i've been there for 6 years now and we've never been told a darn thing about homosexuality or homophobia
and being an out teen at my school your always going to get the few "idiots" who think its funny to try and make fun of the different people
those are usually the fun people as they leave school early live sad lives and die alone
haha
but seriously the only thing that's ever been said about homosexuality and homophobia at my school is my biology teacher saying once to me in a lesson when one of these aforementioned "idiots" decided to shout out that i was homosexual when the class were talking about homogenious cells or something that it was just a phase
so which i replied by staring at him in dead silence he never spoke to me again, it was a fun day
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Re:Does Your School...
Date: 2007/12/29 23:02
By: Devan92
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Well my school I'm not too sure if the teach anything about it, seeing how this is my first year at the school(high school). But, at my old school (Middle school) they didn't and one of my closest friends who had came out at the school was abuse alot and most of the teachers just looked the other way. I think that in middle school kids should read one book that is about Homophobia. But, that's just what I think...
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Re:Does Your School...
Date: 2007/12/30 20:01
By: ghostowndj1
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my school never taught about it (as far as i know) but its a touchy subject where i live and odds r if a teacher did teach about it then their job would prpbably be in jeopardy not to mention it would cause some controvesry amoung parents and others alike...it sucks but thats the society we live in and its common people fear what they dont understand but i think if my school did teach it, it would probably encourage some who r not out to talk to someone about it (of course someone they trust). All we learn is to treat everyone with respect and kindness but to some people they think it doesnt apply to them.
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Re:Does Your School...
Date: 2008/01/09 09:24
By: Viridis
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Teach about homosexuality and homophobia ? Once, in my RE class..though it was more of how sick it was in the Christian eye, I think by the end of that lesson I was so sick to death of it all, i nearlly stormed out, seriously. We had a cover teacher that lesson, it was blatent she was homophobic. And I had one of those days where i'd just be 'out' about being gay, so big makeup etc and everything else, so she knew too well. I think in another lesson i even had a conversation with her, commenting on her use of stereotypes. I was a bitch to her, and i had every right to be!
So...nope, no education on either issue, what so ever. The school seems to hold it in regards to "If we cant see it, then it can't exist"..but theres a problem, They CAN see me, i make god damn sure of that, and i exist..so..they just dont know how to handle it.
But the worst of if all is my Food Tech Teacher. She can go and die in a hole for all i care. She always slips the comment's of 'Fag', Queer. Though every one knows she's jealous, as i do my makeup better than her. Common, since when has clown makeup been attractive ? One lesson, i went in with normal green eyeliner on, that was it, a small ring and 2 pink bands. She threw up hell. She throws me hell, i'll give her the universe. You just CANT get away with it, tis just wrong tbh. It was the whole "GO TO THE BATH ROOM AND WASH IT ALL OFF". there was a girl right next to me with full on NEON green eyeshadow NEON pink liner, she was a mini raver, but her makeup was great, so it was kay. So what did i do ? Went to the bathroom and put even more on.
Every oppurtinity she and they all get, they brandish their torches and pitchforks. All they're really saying is "Hey lookat me, imma here too"
And i dont think schools will change their attitude anytime soon. I mean like, The headmaster's or whatever of every school wants to have the 'perfect' yeargroup, and what does it say if half of 'em are gay ? It pisses me off, reputation over comfort. The whole system needs to be redone and then scrapped to start anew. How can we be taught to give respect to every one else, when we're not even shown an ounce of equality ?
As long as the school tries to ignore me and my 'kind' (as a teacher once put the term) we'll all just keep hovering, here on the side lines. Somethings gotta change, soon it will..but not soon enough =/
Sorry for my rant, but that's how it is...Annoys me so much! Cheers, Harie -x- 'For all the smiles that are ever gonna Haunt me, And All the wounds that are ever gonna Scar, me, For all the Ghosts that are Never gonna Catch me!'
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Re:Does Your School...
Date: 2008/01/10 06:59
By: Kanae
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I just had a History exam. Two and a half hours, three essay quewstions. I could answer two of them, one on comparing two factors in the causes of the French Revolution, and another comparing the rise of Napoleon to France's Emperordom and Louis XVI's rise to the crown. The only other question related to what we'd studied in lessons was one regarding the impact of Whig/Tory rivalry in the mid ninetenth century, but we hadn't studied that yet. This was a mock exam, after all. So looking over the list of twenty five questions, the fifth caught my attention: it was a question about reflecting on "Gender Issues" in Europe through the twentieth century. I began with men and the impact of the World Wars and Thatcherism, then moved onto women with the sufferegettes the Second World War and the Sexual Revolution, and then I got to write about the LGBT community: I managed to cover legalisation, the age of concent and one or two other things. I actually got to mention Are You Being Served and Queer as Folk to compare the presentation of homosexuals in the '70s and at the close of the century. I'm not going to score really highly, because I didn't know any other historical inturpretations of the issue.... But go IB. I wonder what Miss will think when she marks it? On a related note, LGBT History Month in Febuary.
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as they leave school early live sad lives and die alone
