Toronto Star: Gay students ‘go through hell’ at school

[marmar]

Gay students ‘go through hell’ at school
October 19, 2011

Kristin Rushowy
EDUCATION REPORTER


More needs to be done for gay and transgender students who go “through hell” daily at school, says the head of Egale Canada.

From taunts to assaults, binders being thrown at their heads, to a lesbian student who was shot with a BB gun in a drive-by, such incidents must stop, Helen Kennedy told educators at a Canadian Safe School Network conference in Toronto Wednesday.

“That’s Canada,” she said, after listing a string of hateful incidents gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students reported in a recent survey. “That’s here in Toronto.”

She also mentioned the weekend suicide of gay Ottawa teen Jamie Hubley, who had reportedly been bullied since elementary school. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/education/article/1072892--gay-students-go-through-hell-at-school

[xchrom]

1. indeed. nt

[KamaAina]

2. I thought Canada was a civilised country

marriage equality and all that.

Imagine what gay students must go through in our Bible Belt. :scared:

[polly7]

3. Bigotry knows no boundaries, unfortunately. n/t.

[Shagbark Hickory]

4. Another bubble bursted. nt

[Initech]

5. Man I thought I went through hell at school, I can't imagine what it's like now.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. Straight students go through hell too, when they are called "queer" many times a day.

That's what happened to me.

This was before they used the word "gay".